Heir

(noun.) a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another.

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• He said, I have been through nearly every form of trial that human flesh is heir to, and I find that _there is nothing in life to fear but sin_. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Here we cannot trace out the tangle of alliances and betrayals that ended in the ascendancy of this Octavian, the adopted heir of Julius C?sar. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Is not Polemarchus your heir? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Rebecca did not care much to go and see the son and heir. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Rawdon had stolen off though, to look after his son and heir; and came back to the company when he found that honest Dolly was consoling the child. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• But Matilda, though of the royal Saxon blood, was not the heir to the monarchy. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Yes, he was his heir, and the old boy is nearly eighty--cram full of gout, too. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Heir and only child, Lord Saltire. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Rudolph, as you know, Rector, was the heir to Roylands, and Captain Silverton naturally wanted Rose to marry him, as the match was such a good one. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• It was he who sent me to England for you; it is he who is heir to your fine estate; and you—you are nothing but a pauper! 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• In his view he should himself have been heir of all my estates, and he deeply resented those social laws which made it impossible. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• If you were heir to a dukedom and a thousand pounds a day, do you mean to say you would not wish for possession? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Her son and heir interrupted her at this moment, by such hard breathing as almost amounted to a snore. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Tell me then, O thou heir of the argument, what did Simonides say, and according to you truly say, about justice? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Her father was heir-at-law to a great estate that had long lain unknown of, unclaimed, and accumulating. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• And the bulk of your fortune would be laid out in annuities on the authors or their heirs. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• My alliance with him was the pledge of my sincerity, my union with his sister, my children, his presumptive heirs, were the hostages of my truth. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• When we were about to sign the above-mentioned articles, which were to be binding on us, our heirs, &c. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• If she was executed, the fact remains that her three sons, together with two nephews, became the appointed heirs of Constantine. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• She left solitude and silence co-heirs of her kingdom. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The reputation of Rome has flourished through the prosperity of her heirs. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Gray lizards, those heirs of ruin, of sepulchres and desolation, glided in and out among the rocks or lay still and sunned themselves. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Posterity became my heirs. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• And they received this glorious legacy like ill-bred heirs; it meant no more to them than a fresh occasion for atrocious disputes. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Lord hath ordained to every man the share of his inheritance; a testament is not lawful to the prejudice of heirs. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The splendid opening of the story of Islam collapses suddenly into this squalid dispute and bickering of heirs and widows. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Sold for the benefit of the creditors and heirs of the estate of Jesse Blutchford, SAMUEL MORRIS, THOMAS FLINT, _Executors_. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The promise of this is our heritage, we look forward like heirs to their majority. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Medi?val Germany went as far as any of the Western heirs of the first great civilizations towards a fixation of classes. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A property of a thousand a year belonged to it, which property had descended, for lack of male heirs, on a female. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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