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    heir


    heirs


    1. She, the Countess, heir of an imperial blood-


    2. was sure, would provide the next heir to her line


    3. Today she wished to holiday in Crete and live like they did, these people who provided succour, and tonight, she was sure, would provide the next heir to her line


    4. young man who either possessed or was heir to a significant wedge


    5. commander in the Royal Horse Guards and heir to the fourteenth


    6. 38But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, this is the heir;


    7. heir to the Roach family fortune


    8. Although the young man was handsome, promising and attracted to the young beauty, her tastes were for a more wholesome and ruggedly capable ideal for a mate, not the moony-eyed heir to wealth and fortune


    9. Being without an heir, he could leave his land to


    10. ‘In the absence of an heir I believe it should go to

    11. Though yet a child, Gunt would be the last of his line, and therefore heir to whatever remained of the kingdom of the Boulder Lords


    12. I doubt this one will live to be the heir


    13. Maybe he was ashamed to have such a frail child as his heir


    14. He wanted a live heir


    15. Then Theoton would name a different heir


    16. errands, eager for people to see his heir


    17. He’d all but acknowledged Euredon as his son and heir


    18. Lacking a son and heir, Mr Snickerty had seen fit to lavish all his attention and favour on his pet and, such favour being mostly dietary, the animal's bowed legs and sagging belly endowed it with more than a little resemblance to its owner


    19. Senta gasped, “What about the Matriarchy?! Does this make a drastic change in the direction of the Lascorii transition of power? What will the Matriarch do when she realizes her Heir is


    20. That is why, so unlike certain other historical Court situations, you as Heir aren't having to face down a single challenge to your ascendency

    21. The ego cooks up any number of reasons to dish out fear, anxiety, physical pain, sadness, despair, and all of the “thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to


    22. But, in the French colonies, if any part of an estate, held by the noble tenure of chivalry and homage, is alienated, it is, for a limited time, subject to the right of redemption, either by the heir of the superior, or by the heir of the family; and all the largest estates of the country are held by such noble tenures, which necessarily embarrass alienation


    23. She was as stunningly statuesque and imperious as the Elf was herself as Princess and Heir Apparent of the Lascorii---choosing to keep as low a profile where her Enthilesté nature was concerned when around the Guild folk or those of the rest of the Alliance


    24. The dynasty ended in war with a neighboring kingdom, when the king, still without heir, died in battle


    25. “He said he wanted to come and worship the heir to the Jewish throne


    26. ” She glared at heir backs as she continued


    27. in a private college and I was sole heir to the estate


    28. The heir of every immediate vassal of the crown paid a certain duty, generally a year's rent, upon receiving the investiture of the estate


    29. If the heir was a minor, the whole rents of the estate


    30. He has given you freedom of choice in the matter – whether you choose your life to be under Satan’s rule while you live on Earth, or whether you would like to claim your rightful inheritance as heir of God and be part of his family that will rule over the world with him, when he returns in the near future

    31. John was the heir


    32. Magic would have to be very strong to affect him and it would take many wizards combined to tackle him, as an heir to Borgan Tahl


    33. "I have heard of a similar story about the heir to Elderhad


    34. In a sense it was like handing over the business to his son: an heir to TIAR


    35. To the Dwarves he was the heir to Gindaredhathmor, to humans the heir of Borgan Tahl and Elves the heir of Elderhad


    36. Since Sespian is the only Savarsin left who claims royal blood through both paternal and maternal lines, he is the only legitimate heir


    37. Fetish was represented by hundreds of charms of every size, shape, and description, from the common slaves' ju-ju of plaited straw to the elaborately worked charms of chased gold or leopard and lion skin, with human blood on the sacred inscription inside as a fancied panacea, of far-reaching power, to cure every disease, destroy an enemy, and grant the wearer a perfect immunity from any ills the flesh or spirit is heir to


    38. She had publicly adopted Hetty, and announced her as her heir


    39. “I believe he is an undercover Nurian wizard, sent by their government to create chaos and plant a compliant heir on the throne


    40. He’ll live long enough to produce an heir

    41. “If that were true, you would have been the heir


    42. This meant Raumesys had left no true heir


    43. property, conferred upon his son and heir in honour of the day) into


    44. She fears she has hurt him, that the heir that died in her womb was her only use to him, that her feeling for you make her abomination


    45. I have all the wealth and success that anyone could hope for, but where is an heir to pass it on to?


    46. Instead of, in all honest humility, following the titular leader, the bishop of Rome, religious heir of the Apostle Peter, already chosen, according to the Bible, by their crucified leader as head of his church, and by extension any other bishop chosen as his successor; the Eastern leadership, following Constantine’s move of his capitol eastward sought to contest that authority, trying instead to negotiate a kind of co-ruler-ship, similar to that which had brought Constantine to the fore of the pagan, Roman Empire


    47. In the early seventh century many were struck down by the “Sword of Islam” that had sundered half of the empire that the Christians had fallen heir to


    48. Something must have happened in those eight years that would have conveyed to them the assurance that even killing the founder’s heir would not bring them down


    49. The last heir, al Husain, who would give to the group that the magazine article was about, their name Shia, was assassinated in AD 680


    50. Did he die, or was he assassinated also? My material does not say, only that the last direct heir of Mohammed was assassinated and the usurper’s rule ended in the same year














































    1. Gal: 3:29: And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise


    2. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the


    3. If there is coming a day where we will be so like Jesus that we are considered heirs with Him, then anything that would keep us from that reality here and now is to be violently opposed


    4. 17And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we


    5. and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?


    6. 14For if they which are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of


    7. heirs of the Whitton Estate as best she can


    8. These I set up to dry within my circle or hedge, and when they were fit for use I carried them to my cave; and here, during the next season, I employed myself in making, as well as I could, a great many baskets… (‘The life and strange surpising adventures of Robinson Crusoe,’ Daniel Defoe – 1719 – Heirs of Anderson, pub


    9. In short, we are heirs to everything Jesus walked in during his life on earth


    10. natural heirs of Deucalion and those born from the

    11. It belonged to the dead elder’s heirs, whatever ones were left


    12. Its beneficial influence, however, has been much obstructed by entails ; the heirs of entail being generally restrained from letting leases for any long term of years, frequently for more than one year


    13. In other parts of Europe, after it was found convenient to secure tenants both against heirs and purchasers, the term of their security was still limited to a very short period ; in France, for example, to nine years from the commencement of the lease


    14. Several years ago, the city of Saparen fought off an ern attack in order to protect a few children who had done nothing to have earned the wrath of the ern except that they were born on a particular day – a day that made them possible heirs to the power of the Prophets


    15. This is the first model used in the Bible that points to God so loving his creations that he would willingly leave his position, as God and Creator, and become sin on their behalf, so that they could become fellow heirs, with Jesus Christ, of God’s creation


    16. Did he even know that Calras had heirs in Laru? Did he know that Calras’ son had not gone to Namilia with Queen Ceniur? And did he know that they both carried the Sign? He was father’s friends but father had never mentioned if Ilmal knew their secret


    17. And again: “If indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given me for you, how that by revelation He made known to me the mystery…that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body and partakers of His promise in Christ” (Eph


    18. Also, to this, add the unrest of the overseas Jews and those in their ancient homeland, Judea, having been denied for centuries the right to rebuild their Temple by the Christian heirs of the Roman Empire purportedly for reasons of scriptural prophesy


    19. From ancient Ur, to Babylon with its magnificent tower, to brutal Assyria, Babylon again, then the Persia of Cyrus, and his heirs, Alexander’s Hellenism, and last but not least Pagan Rome


    20. In propounding their version of the history wherein the Shi’ites view themselves as the rightful heirs to follow on after their founder, a short account of the original movement was given that led up to the fateful date that they have commemorated ever since

    21. So the music stopped, the seat was occupied and those who could not renew their grasp upon it were ground underfoot in such a convincing manner that those who had quickly occupied it would feel secure enough to dispose of any competing heirs without fear of reprisal


    22. His heirs went on to become such a force that by AD 664 they usurped a large part of the Byzantine Empire’s real estate and diminished much of its influence in the formerly Roman world


    23. The individual in Chile can pass that account on to his heirs and can even withdraw some if


    24. The third leg of this trilogy involves the heirs to the land that Joshua’s generation had subdued


    25. His heirs, eager to become the chosen, as in the story of Joseph, contested with one another until they had caused the kingdom to split into two parts


    26. His heirs, seemingly a lesser breed, strayed to the point of destruction


    27. Now it was the Greek heirs of Alexander who seemed more dazzled by the riches of their newly acquired eastern provinces to notice, until it was too late


    28. But the third leg, the heirs of Joshua who fell away from the “Word,” who might we equate them with in our Jesus story?


    29. After all, you and Elior are the heirs to the throne of Ivetarlis, and at least one of you ought to be present


    30. We are the heirs of a magnificent tradition

    31. the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which


    32. Escaping to Canaan in the company of Abraham, He then virtually disappeared as Abraham’s heirs went into the snare of Egyptian hospitality that slowly sank into virtual or actual captivity


    33. Then, through the ages of slowly acquired wisdom, a trail of good behavior has itself been laid out for heirs to follow


    34. They knew that if they did not, their heirs would suffer


    35. As soon as the death was confirmed, the heirs were called in


    36. In understanding karma, we know that all beings are heirs to their own karma – that they act, and then receive the fruits of their actions


    37. May we step back, ponder for a while, and begin to see clearly in a remarkably new way that we truly are the very heirs of our own motives and actions


    38. heirs, says the Lord


    39. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God


    40. heirs to this Planet

    41. Because of all the intermarriage among kings and nobles, things could get rather confusing, especially if a king died without any direct heirs


    42. Verse 17 Children are heirs;


    43. Slaves are not heirs!


    44. we become heirs with Him; there is no other way to Heaven


    45. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:


    46. As Gotimin explained, the human who had owned it previously had died, and his many heirs had contested his will for years, neglecting the ranch and it’s bills in the meantime, until the empire had seized it for unpaid taxes


    47. King Dren and his heirs were to be killed at the moment power was seized


    48. “The conspiracy there was limited to Clanlords, but the clans whose lords fought to their deaths rather than swear to justice are the most rough and aggressive packs of fools on Kletiuk! They’d have followed their lords to slaughter and loot without a second thought! After the battle in the Arena of Government of Overclan Beijur, the heirs of the slain Clanlords were offered the choice of death, or swearing to justice


    49. Half refused to swear, but their heirs did not


    50. If we can’t find the heirs of the Wiselkops in Iktra, you’ll inherit theirs as well






































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    Synonyms for "heir"

    heir heritor inheritor successor beneficiary scion

    "heir" definitions

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


    a person who inherits some title or office