heritor

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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

From A Man Four-Square by Raine, William MacLeod

If I quit this bright and glorious scene, without thought and gratitude to that Being who, I humbly trust, has made me an heritor of still greater things, I offend wittingly and without hope.

From The Red Rover by Cooper, James Fenimore