heritor
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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 James Hogg
She was the heritor of lawless, self-willed, passionate ancestors.
From A Man Four-Square by William MacLeod Raine
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
For though she was heritor of a life full-blooded and undisciplined, every fiber of her was clean and pure.
From A Man Four-Square by William MacLeod Raine
"Say rather in your power, dame Shirley!" rejoined he, determined to cut out the Linton heritor by one bold stroke.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various
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