heritor

Example Sentences

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She was the heritor of lawless, self-willed, passionate ancestors.

From A Man Four-Square by Raine, William MacLeod

"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.

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 Raine, William MacLeod

There is a story of another Az�nor, who, according to local history, married Yves, heritor of Kermorvan, in the 361 year 1400.

From Legends & Romances of Brittany by Spence, Lewis