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

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

"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

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

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