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View definitions for fall heir to

fall heir to

verb as in own

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By afternoon, we seemed to fall heir to the sort of summer day that exists in nostalgic dreams as much as in reality.

Not to fall heir to some new legacy.

They proved that by Andrew J. Davis, Jr., who expects to fall heir to all that is taken, and they proved it also by John A. Davis, the proponent.

The magazines will fall heir to such articles; then religious weeklies will take them up, and then they will cease altogether.

Did you not fall heir to those absurd whims which you are pleased to call religious opinions, in right of your mother and other relations; and if these had happened to be followers of Mahommed, would not your blind zeal for the prophet of Mecca, have been as great as it now is for his alleged predecessor of Palestine?*

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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