heritor
Example Sentences
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For though she was heritor of a life full-blooded and undisciplined, every fiber of her was clean and pure.
From A Man Four-Square by William MacLeod Raine
In 1740, Mr Oliphant, as almost sole heritor, intruded the Rev. John M'Leish into the parish, in opposition to the wishes of a large majority of the people.
From Chronicles of Strathearn by W. B. Macdougall
So you see, madam, this gentleman is the true and sole heritor of all the land that your father possesses, with all the rents thereof for the last twenty years, and upwards.
From The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
This Herod knew one born should be, One born should be of true lineage, That should be right heritor; For he but by the Emperor Was made by usurpage.
From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Arthur C. Behrend
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
