Tashtego's long, lean, sable hair, his high cheek bones, and black rounding eyes --for an Indian, Oriental in their largeness, but Antarctic in their glittering expression --all this sufficiently proclaimed him an
inheritor of the unvitiated blood of those proud warrior hunters, who, in quest of the great New England moose, had scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal forests of the main.
Henry Dashwood, the legal
inheritor of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it.
This man's grandfather, also named Edgar--they keep the tradition of the family Christian name--quarrelled with his family and went to live abroad, not keeping up any intercourse, good or bad, with his relatives, although this particular Edgar, as I told you, did visit his family estate, yet his son was born and lived and died abroad, while his grandson, the latest
inheritor, was also born and lived abroad till he was over thirty--his present age.
That you become the sole
inheritor of the wealth of this rich old hunks, that you and I spend it together, and that you get into the bargain a beautiful young wife.'
The old man's declaration that Valentine was not the destined
inheritor of his fortune had excited the hopes of Madame de Villefort; she gradually approached the invalid, and said: "Then, doubtless, dear M.
Such was Sir Patrick Lundie; brother of the late baronet, Sir Thomas; and
inheritor, at Sir Thomas's death, of the title and estates.
Can I separate my father's twin-brother, joint
inheritor, and next successor, from himself?"
Inheritor of a handsome fortune made by his father and his grandfather in trade.
He was an officer of the crown, and had been induced to remove from the Floridas, among the French of the adjoining province, by a rich succession of which he had become the
inheritor. The name of Don Augustin de Certavallos was scarcely known beyond the limits of the little town in which he resided, though he found a secret pleasure himself in pointing it out, in large scrolls of musty documents, to an only child, as enrolled among the former heroes and grandees of Old and of New Spain.
If so, we are left to dispose of the awful query, whether each
inheritor of the property-conscious of wrong, and failing to rectify it--did not commit anew the great guilt of his ancestor, and incur all its original responsibilities.
The Roman Church, firmly established in every corner of every land, was the actual
inheritor of much of the unifying power of the Roman government, and the feudal system everywhere gave to society the same political organization and ideals.
Not a great fortune, forty and odd pounds for the
inheritor of a hundred and odd thousand!