heritor

Example Sentences

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When a private bill goes through parliament, ordinary citizens can object to its terms - and a succession of pow "heritors" did so.

From BBC

Hemingway and Dos Passos in the first world war; Mailer, Heller, Jones and Vonnegut in the second world war; O’Brien, Herr and Marlantes in Vietnam: they’re all heritors of Bierce.

From The Guardian

Here his wife was to administer love and consolation; here children were to be born, hostages to fortune, heritors of name and fame, idols upon whom can be lavished the inexhaustible treasures of love.

From Project Gutenberg

A female pauper lately made a very strong and forcible appeal to the elders and heritors of a certain parish, for an advance of 4s. 6d.

From Project Gutenberg

They were heritors of an age in which Love has quickened his pace to keep up with the double-march of war.

From Project Gutenberg