heritor

Example Sentences

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She was the heritor of lawless, self-willed, passionate ancestors.

From A Man Four-Square by Raine, William MacLeod

A young child have I For heritor; Too young to win forth From the house of his foes.—

From The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda by Morris, William

"Ah! hadst thou liked me less and loved me more, Through all these summer days of joy and rain, I had not now been sorrow's heritor, Or stood a lackey in the House of Pain."

From Oscar Wilde A Critical Study by Ransome, Arthur

"Say rather in your power, dame Shirley!" rejoined he, determined to cut out the Linton heritor by one bold stroke.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various

I don't speak in favour of the population generally, more than I would do in favour of the merchant, or of the heritor, were it not for the truth.

From Second Shetland Truck System Report by Guthrie, William