fall heir to

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

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.

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?*

For it was taken for granted that after the death of her supposed parents she would surely fall heir to a considerable property.

As she was their only child, and as her parents were too far advanced in years to have other offspring, she would fall heir to a reversionary interest of 12,000 scudi; and he hoped that he could 270 easily make the match, as the Comparini were rather inferior to him in birth.