heritor

Example Sentences

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A fierce, untamed girl of primitive instincts, she was the heritor of the family temperament.

From The Sheriff's Son by Raine, William MacLeod

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

Among the persons drawn to Baldarroch by these occurrences were the heritor, the minister, and all the elders of the Kirk, under whose superintendence an investigation was immediately commenced.

From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 by Mackay, Charles

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

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