heritor

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"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

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 Guthrie, William

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 Maclean, Norman

A new call in 1769 was signed neither by heritor, elder, or head of family.

From Chronicles of Strathearn by Macdougall, W. B.

The chief heritor of the parish is Captain W. H. Drummond Moray of Abercairny, whose family, though old proprietors, seem never to have lived in the parish.

From Chronicles of Strathearn by Macdougall, W. B.