heritor
Example Sentences
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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 Norman Maclean
A young child have I For heritor; Too young to win forth From the house of his foes.—
From The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda by William Morris
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
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
I don't speak in favour of the population generally, more than I would do in favour of the merchant, or of the heritor, were it not for the truth.
From Second Shetland Truck System Report by William Guthrie
