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

From Chronicles of Strathearn by Macdougall, W. B.

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

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

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 Hogg, James