heritor

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If I quit this bright and glorious scene, without thought and gratitude to that Being who, I humbly trust, has made me an heritor of still greater things, I offend wittingly and without hope.

From The Red Rover by Cooper, James Fenimore

Among the persons drawn to Baldarroch by these occurrences were the heritor, the minister, and all the elders of the Kirk, under whose superintendence an investigation was immediately commenced.

From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 by Mackay, Charles

A new call in 1769 was signed neither by heritor, elder, or head of family.

From Chronicles of Strathearn by Macdougall, W. B.

And, after some farther concerted arrangements, the heritor left his affianced, and proceeded to Cauldshouthers, to report to Grizelda what he had achieved.

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

An old heritor once said to me that the only thing that really roused the devil in a Scotsman's heart was trespassing on his ecclesiastical allotment.'

From Victory out of Ruin by Maclean, Norman