heritor

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In case o' failure, I fixed upon twa—May Walker, the dochter o' Gilbert Walker, an auld cattle-dealer, wha rented Langacres frae a chief heritor; and Agnes Lowrie, the dochter o' Benjamin Lowrie, feuar o' Muirbank.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Leighton, Alexander

"Ah! hadst thou liked me less and loved me more, Through all these summer days of joy and rain, I had not now been sorrow's heritor, Or stood a lackey in the House of Pain."

From Oscar Wilde A Critical Study by Ransome, Arthur

This Herod knew one born should be, One born should be of true lineage, That should be right heritor; For he but by the Emperor Was made by usurpage.

From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Behrend, Arthur C.

If I quit this bright and glorious scene, without thought and gratitude to that Being who, I humbly trust, has made me an heritor of still greater things, I offend wittingly and without hope.

From The Red Rover by Cooper, James Fenimore

Then shall ye be an heritor of bliss, Where all joy and mirth is.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew