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Sentences ending with heir

April can boast that in her house is born the spring, whose vigor is only strengthened and beauty developed by her blooming heir. [10]
Besides, he could safely commit the execution of his conclusions and commands to his obedient and dutiful heir. [10]
In "The Journal of the American Medical Association," dated April 26,1890, published at Chicago, I am reported, in quotation marks, as saying, "Give me opium, wine, and milk, and I will cure all diseases to which flesh is heir. [6]
Where's the rascal of an heir? [4]
The world knew not what I was to his great heart, but my wish to defend myself from misconception bids me show it to you, his heir. [10]
And was he not their descendant and heir? [10]
A week before my wedding-day, while I was still swimming in bliss and the nobility were gathering from far and near to honor our espousals, came news of my uncle's death, and also a copy of his will, making me his sole heir. [5]
Claims--mark this well, my friend--claims to the many things which will remain of my greatness and power when I have closed my pilgrimage beneath the sun, can be made by one person only--Don Philip, my oldest son and lawful heir. [10]
He came to know the gossip gone abroad that the Duke had already chosen him for heir. [11]
Perhaps you have inherited the vast property to which you were the heir. [11]

More example sentences with the word heir in them

I will nominate your little Philopator heir to the throne, for I have no wish to contract a permanent tie with any woman, as Cleopatra belongs to you. [10]
The amazed comment when the heir to the Chiltern fortune had returned to the soil of his ancestors had been revived on his arrival in Newport. [9]
Now, returned from vagabondage, he was the valiant and honoured heir of the House of Vaufontaine, and heir-presumptive of the House of Bercy. [11]
And supposing Diodoros, too, should be converted by Melissa, could he thus alienate from his father the son and heir of Polybius--his benefactor and master? [10]
On his return to Castle Schorlin he found many changes; the old knight had been called away from earth a few days before his son's death, and Heinz Schorlin, his present master, had fallen heir to castle and lands. [10]
Orion was accustomed to be treated in his own country as the heir of the greatest man in it; the color mounted to his brow and his Egyptian heart revolted at having to bend his pride and swallow his wrath before an Arab. [10]
He had looked to be the discarded heir, and he knew it now without rebellion. [11]
It was at this very point that the danger lay, for the nephew of the Dakoon, Gis-yo-Bahim, was a weak but treacherous man, ill-fitted to rule; a coward, yet ambitious; distrusted by the people, yet the heir to the throne. [11]
The Persians, crossing their hands on their breasts, cast themselves on the earth before the heir to the Egyptian throne. [10]
But, somehow, as the years go on, I feel more like being an heir myself. [4]
The heir to the throne of Philetaerus, who was now advancing in years, was especially friendly to Myrtilus, and did everything in his power to bind him to Pergamus. [10]
The two Emperors, the Russian with his heir the Tsarevich, and the Austrian with the Archduke, inspected the allied army of eighty thousand men. [2]
The account of the property bequeathed to the young knight was only too quickly completed, for, though the precentor's will made his foster son the sole heir, the legacy consisted only of the house, some portable property, and scarcely more than a thousand florins. [10]
Your husband is the natural heir, and it is only just that the Seigneury should go on in the direct line. [11]
The houseless prince, the homeless heir to the throne of England, still moved on, drifting deeper into the maze of squalid alleys where the swarming hives of poverty and misery were massed together. [5]
Duke Lawless was the heir to the title and estates of Trafford Court. [11]
George Fournel was the heir to the Seigneury of Pontiac, not Louis Racine. [11]
It came from the heir and regent, Don Philip, in Valladolid. [10]
How insignificant was the figure of the heir of so many crowns! [10]
The wife of the Chiltern heir would naturally inspire a considerable interest in any event, and Mrs. Hugh Chiltern in particular. [9]
Next morning all the barony went mad with rejoicing over the proclamation that a son was born to Klugenstein, an heir to mighty Brandenburgh! [5]
It is plain that the Usurping Earl there has a great deal of character and a long face like a horse's, whereas his heir here is smirky, moon-faced and characterless. [5]
For I know that before you wrote me this letter, and afterwards when you had been made prince, and heir to the duchy, the Comtesse Chantavoine was openly named by the Duc de Bercy for your wife. [11]
The first witness testifies that when 'this most beautiful Truth first dawned on him' he had 'nearly all the ills that flesh is heir to;' that those he did not have he thought he had--and thus made the tale about complete. [5]
The first witness testifies that when "this most beautiful Truth first dawned on him" he had "nearly all the ills that flesh is heir to"; that those he did not have he thought he had--and this made the tale about complete. [5]
The real heir suddenly found himself rich and free, but in a most embarrassing situation. [5]
When from this spot the dancer fixed her eyes upon the landing place, she suddenly dropped her companion's arm, exclaiming: "It is the handsome blind sculptor, Hermon, the heir of the wealthy Myrtilus. [10]
She whom he sought was waiting there with her father, while beneath it was the former abode of the precentor and organist and his wife, who had reared Wolf, and whose heir, after the old man's death, he had become. [10]
The old Duke soon gave everything into his hands, and sat apart and listened with proud satisfaction while his heir delivered the decrees of the crown from the seat of the premier. [5]
As King Philip's sole heir was the sickly Don Carlos----" "His son Geronimo might aspire to the crown," interrupted Granvelle. [10]
Patient, the doctor should side with either party according to whether the old miser or his expectant heir was his employer. [6]
The air is salubrious, and many of the inhabitants have attained great age, several having passed the allotted period of 'three-score years and ten' before succumbing to any of the various 'ills that flesh is heir to. [6]
These different people--businessmen, relations, and acquaintances alike--were all disposed to treat the young heir in the most friendly and flattering manner: they were all evidently firmly convinced of Pierre's noble qualities. [2]
If the reigning Prince chose to establish him as heir, who had a right to complain? [11]
He ordered the portrait to be carried outside his tent, that the Old Guard, stationed round it, might not be deprived of the pleasure of seeing the King of Rome, the son and heir of their adored monarch. [2]
Money to spend, playing at soldiering, made to believe I'd have a pot of money and an estate, and then told one fine day that a son and heir, with health in form and feature, was come, and Esau must go. [11]
I was the only heir of one of the richest men in the colony, vouched for by the Manners and taken up by Mr. Fox and my Lord Comyn. [9]
Coniston decided at once that she was to marry the heir to the Brampton Mills. [9]
So fared they on to seek the promised sign That marked the anointed heir of David's line. [6]
And the mother of the woman whose birthday had just passed, the proud Queen Isabella, the conqueror of the Moors--what would she have said had she been condemned to see her grandson, the heir of so great an empire, ensnared by such bonds? [10]
With the death of the Prince of Vaufontaine, there is in France no direct heir to the house, nor can it, by the law, revert to my house or my heirs. [11]
At the taking of the oath by which the Cortes recognised Don Carlos as the heir to the throne, John had been summoned directly after the Infant as the first person entitled to homage. [10]
Along the line of the Bazaar ranged another thousand men, armed only with krises, under the command of the heir of the late Dakoon, and with these were a hundred and fifty mounted hillsmen, watchful and deliberate. [11]
The tall heir of a noble house, who, like Caesar at Rome, belonged to the "Blues," drove his own team of four splendid white horses; and he himself was covered with turquoises, while the harness was set with cut sapphires. [10]
The wish to obtain the German imperial crown for his heir and successor, Philip, had proved unattainable. [10]
But for himself, now heir to the principality of Vaufontaine, and therefrom, by reversion, to that of Bercy, it had no importance. [11]
But that was nothing; his uncle told him he should be his heir and have all his fortune when he died; so Tom was comforted. [5]
Nicholas was allowed no respite and no peace, and those who had seemed to pity the old man--the cause of their losses (if they were losses)--now remorselessly pursued the young heir who had voluntarily undertaken the debts and was obviously not guilty of contracting them. [2]
Two of his nieces, the daughters of his brother Ferdinand, expected to marry--one the heir to the Bavarian throne, the other the Duke of Cleves. [10]
Nay, more and more since I am raised to such fortune as thousands may envy me; inasmuch as my granduncle purposes to make me his heir by form of law. [10]
My father called me the future heir and lord of the castle. [10]
To a young man, who as his father's heir in Boston had been the subject of marked consideration by his elders, the situation was keenly distasteful. [9]
The false heir made a full confession and was sentenced to imprisonment for life. [5]
The three men lying beside him had only suspected him for the last three days, and during that time they had never let him out of heir sight. [11]
Whatever note of localism there was in the Knickerbocker School, however dilettante and unfruitful it was, it was not the legitimate heir of the broad and eclectic genius of Irving. [4]
Now, then, if it was you that did him that service, you are his legitimate heir, and entitled to the sack of gold. [5]
Oh, Hawkins, selfishness is the bottom trait in human nature; I was only thinking that now, with the usurper's heir out of the way. [5]
I think she is of late years giving herself large concern about only one interest-her power and glory, and the perpetuation and worship of her Name--with a capital N. Her Church is her pet heir, and I think it will get her wealth. [5]
The other person is his only son and heir, a dreamy-eyed young fellow, who looks about twenty-six but is nearer thirty. [5]
Over the door is a red image of Ganesh of the elephant head, son and heir of Shiva, and Prince of Wales to the Theological Monarchy, so to speak. [5]
The Emperor also invited us, on behalf of his absent eldest son and heir (aged 22,) to visit his palace and consider it a visit to him. [5]
The Duke had invited the Comtesse to witness the final act which was to make Philip d'Avranche his heir in legal fact as by verbal proclamation; not doubting that the romantic nature of the incident would impress her. [11]
My uncle seemed in particular anxious that I should make a good appearance, and reminded me that I should dress as became the heir of the Carvel house. [9]
He was hardly in his grave before the boom collapsed and left his envied young devil of an heir a pauper. [5]
His heir, our ideally placed American, shall take possession of the old house, the home of his earliest memories, and preserve it sacredly, not exactly like the Santa Casa, but, as nearly as may be, just as he remembers it. [6]
I sat down, hoping that I might fall heir to the chair belonging to the better of the remaining two barbers, for he had already begun combing his man's hair, while his comrade was not yet quite done rubbing up and oiling his customer's locks. [5]
The heir and hope of a family which had been narrowing down as if doomed to extinction, he had been surrounded with every care and trained by the best education he could have in New England. [6]
I have come home--as I was saying when that confounded twinge took me--to settle down; and I intend to make Polly my heir, and live at my ease and enjoy life. [4]
I have made him my heir. [11]
She hath in her time got an heir to the throne with which we are ever in kinship and alliance, and I in my time shall give ye your heart's desire. [11]
Then came the heir to the throne, in rich robes of state, as priest and prince; and behind him four young priests in white carrying Tachot, (the daughter of Amasis and Ladice and the pretended sister of Nitetis,) in an open litter. [10]
You know the heir to the Egyptian throne, and you know Rhodopis too. [10]
Malachi, the chief heir of the family property, was rich, but felt very poor. [6]
Detricand, as natural heir of the duchy, combated each step in the proceedings from the stand-point of legality, of the Duke's fatuity concerning Philip, and his personal hatred of the House of Vaufontaine. [11]
Fleda was the heir of all this, the product of generations of such vagabondage. [11]
Everything that the heart of man could desire had been accorded to him, except the one joy of possessing a son and heir. [10]
You have just heard the sound of a horn; that was the sign that the last heir to the Egyptian throne born on the shores of the Nile has been gathered to his fathers. [10]
Since that minute he, like Philip, had been in a kind of dream; on his part, to find in the young man, if possible, an heir and successor; on Philip's to make real exalted possibilities. [11]
In another day he would have been heir to the whole! [5]
When he died he left his heir 2,000,000 pounds, which was a most unusual fortune for a king to possess in those days. [5]
Whereas the king having died and left no heir, it becomes my duty to continue the executive authority vested in me, until a government shall have been created and set in motion. [5]
The Heir Apparent has been set aside. [11]
If anything should happen to Elsie, it would be the most natural thing in the world that his uncle should adopt him, his nephew and only near relation, as his heir. [6]
The augur has had his day and has been long ago forgotten; the priest had fallen heir to his trade. [5]
But the heir had gone West, and as the summer wore on, the gossip died down. [9]
But if Sir Franz knew not already that he, to whom he spoke as roughly as though he were a froward serving man, was in truth son and heir of a right noble house, he learnt it now. [10]
He had unexpectedly fallen heir to two vast estates, and his excavators in the Necropolis had found more gold in the old heathen tombs than all the others put together. [10]
I, who was everything to Caesar, beseeching mercy from his heir. [10]
He did not disguise from himself, however, that there were a number of drawbacks in the way of his becoming established as the heir of the Dudley mansion-house and fortune. [6]
Don Carlos, the deformed heir to the throne, was annoying with his coarse jests some ladies of the court, who were holding their fans before their faces, yet did not venture to make the sovereign's son feel their displeasure. [10]
The family were content, for it was known that I was sole heir to an uncle held to be worth five millions of dollars. [5]
Was this man chosen to avenge Charles's sins upon his son and heir? [10]
Amasis, in making choice of this queen, after the death of his second wife, (the Egyptian Tentcheta, mother of Psamtik the heir to the throne,) had followed his prepossession in favor of the Greek nation and defied the wrath of the priests. [10]
This would be cheek-by-jowl with a bet that an heir would be born to one new-married pair before another pair. [11]
Elizabeth's humour had changed; and to-day she seemed set on humiliating him before the nobles who hated him, before the people who had found in him the cause why the Queen had not married, so giving no heir to the throne. [11]
It would have caused the destruction of the state, as certainly as it was the unfairest and unwisest of the deeds of Severus, to place the younger brother as co-regent with the first-born, the rightful heir to the throne. [10]
Seti, whom they call the heir to the throne, is just such another weakling as his father, and must submit to a fixed fact, or if necessary, be forced to do so. [10]
I mention here, by the way, that my client was the sole heir. [9]
Philip was heir by adoption only, and the inheritance had been secured at the last by help of a lie--surely his was a righteous cause! [11]
All this had been instantly reported at Tanis, but the king was forced to delay the departure of the army for several days until the week of general mourning for the heir to the throne had expired. [10]

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