heritor

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

From A Man Four-Square by Raine, William MacLeod

In 1740, Mr Oliphant, as almost sole heritor, intruded the Rev. John M'Leish into the parish, in opposition to the wishes of a large majority of the people.

From Chronicles of Strathearn by Macdougall, W. B.

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

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