heritor
Example Sentences
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Appanage of time put in your keeping For my far-off heritor to hear.
From Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen by Meteyard, Thomas Buford
An old heritor once said to me that the only thing that really roused the devil in a Scotsman's heart was trespassing on his ecclesiastical allotment.'
From Victory out of Ruin by Maclean, Norman
A new call in 1769 was signed neither by heritor, elder, or head of family.
From Chronicles of Strathearn by Macdougall, W. B.
The heritor who was entitled to and always received this token of respect, was Mr. Miller, proprietor of Dalswinton.
From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Ramsay, Edward Bannerman
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
