heritor

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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

Appanage of time put in your keeping For my far-off heritor to hear.

From Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen by Meteyard, Thomas Buford

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

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

From A Man Four-Square by Raine, William MacLeod

There is a story of another Az�nor, who, according to local history, married Yves, heritor of Kermorvan, in the 361 year 1400.

From Legends & Romances of Brittany by Spence, Lewis