inheritress

The Empress Eudoxia was the inheritress of the influence of the two murdered

Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895

Marcella Boyce, a "finished" and grown-up young woman of twenty-one, the only daughter and child of Mr. Boyce of Mellor Park, inheritress of one of the most ancient names in Midland England, and just entering on a life which to her own fancy and will, at any rate, promised the highest possible degree of interest and novelty.

Marcella Humphry Ward 1885

Alone in her dominion, the inheritress entered the death-chamber, and there passed an hour upon her knees.

Veranilda George Gissing 1880

The Dominion through her Indian officers and her mounted constabulary is showing herself the inheritress of these traditions.

Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses John Douglas Sutherland Campbell 1879

Thereupon he understood the rare attraction of that girl, inheritress of her father's genius, whose new-born celebrity had reached as far as his province, with the halo of a reputation for great beauty.

The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2) Alphonse Daudet 1868

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The Prince of the House of David, or, Three years in the Holy City 1855

Perhaps the perplexity, if any, arose from Anne Duchess of Hamilton, the inheritress of the ducal honours by virtue of the patent of 1643, after the deaths of her father and uncle _s.p. m. _, having obtained a _life dukedom_ for her husband,

Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853. A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

Both have gone to their long home, leaving their only child inheritress of a handsome estate.

The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea Mayne Reid 1850

Elleanor Eldridge, on the one hand, is the inheritress of African blood, with all its heirship of wo and shame; and the subject of wrong and banishment, by her Indian maternity on the other.

Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge Frances Harriet 1838

She is beautiful, by every report that we have heard of her, even as an angel; but reflect that she is an heiress -- the inheritress of immense property -- and that, as a matter of course, the temptations are a thousand to one against him.

Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831