heritor
Example Sentences
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There seemed to be no direct responsibility on the part of any heritor for its upkeep, and what seemed everybody's business became nobody's.
From Chronicles of Strathearn by W. B. Macdougall
Then shall ye be an heritor of bliss, Where all joy and mirth is.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by William Carew Hazlitt
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 Charles Mackay
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 James Fenimore Cooper
In case o' failure, I fixed upon twa—May Walker, the dochter o' Gilbert Walker, an auld cattle-dealer, wha rented Langacres frae a chief heritor; and Agnes Lowrie, the dochter o' Benjamin Lowrie, feuar o' Muirbank.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Alexander Leighton
