They had that air of readiness for what would come to them, a kind of surety, an expectancy, the look of an inheritor.    From LearnThat.org.  [D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), British author.]

Nolan is occasionally described as the inheritor of Stanley Kubrick's mantle, and there are allusions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inception] Reference

Eiki (aka the inheritor of Zhuge Liang's fan) hates waiting for her lovers to perform.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comments for Azure Flame] Reference

Khan is the sixth generation inheritor of this lineage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indian Legend Plays NYC, Thanks Obama] Reference

He'd have been a fitting inheritor to Paul Wellstone's seat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coleman Declares Victory In Minnesota Senate Race, Recount Likely] Reference

In artistry and influence, he is their inheritor and successor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emulating Bill Evans] Reference

The curtain rose and there stood the inheritor of the warlike name of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play] Reference

A man in prison, for instance, would not be the inheritor of anything.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference

Malahide, or inheritor of other noble names famous in the annals of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada] Reference

He stood lost between knowledge and wonder, the inheritor of her silence.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Excellent Mystery]

Thirty-one years old, he is the oldest son, inheritor of the dynastic name.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Be a Rockefeller] Reference

Carry yourself as if you were the undoubted inheritor of the Reade traditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference

KING: It would seem like the main inheritor, I'm not a lawyer, would be your son?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 19, 2007] Reference

The dying man was, after all, the inheritor of his ancestors 'virtues and failings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference

It was the lord of that stately castle, the young inheritor of the lands of Visinara.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference

He is indeed positioning himself as the true inheritor of the neoconservative mantle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Levy: McCain at AIPAC Offers Americans and Israelis the Same Gloomy, Insecure, Hope-Free Future] Reference

"There was no provision made in case the inheritor should refuse or not be available?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference

He was the inheritor of a trust fund whose annual income is estimated in the millions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ross Hyzer: Pay No Attention to the Man Buying All that Cesium] Reference

So the answer the son and inheritor of the estate makes to the daughter of the ballet-dancer is.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference

Modern, non-denominational (mostly fundamentalist) Christianity is the inheritor of that strain.    From Wordnik.com.  [trinityboy Diary Entry] Reference

It is a pupil of the entire Past, the heir of all its knowledge, the inheritor of all its wisdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

After all, as the son of the late King Henry the Fifth, he is the rightful inheritor of the throne.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reluctant Queen]

Prince each of the seven sons claimed to be inheritor of the throne, while the father was still living.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Persia] Reference

Every piece of living protoplasm we see has a history; it is the inheritor of countless millions of years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888] Reference

A sorry dowry, this, for an inheritor of a palace at once so noble and admirable in spite of its unluckiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference

Here was the strong man carving out an empire for his descendants, and here was his only son, the inheritor-to-be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swirling Waters] Reference

Bel-Merodach at Babylon, and thereby been accepted as his adopted son and the inheritor of the old Babylonian empire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

Humanity — focal point, inheritor and trustee of the world — exists to know its Creator and to serve His purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Common Faith] Reference

Others, who were once ardent Thatcherites, now support Tony Blair, and believe he is the inheritor of her radicalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thatcher and Thatcherism in retrospect] Reference

So, then, why does sci-fi, the inheritor of this intellectual tradition, get short shrift among serious adult readers?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clive Thompson on Why Sci-Fi Is the Last Bastion of Philosophical Writing] Reference

James Hopping, the latest inheritor, never lived there, but instead has used the property for minor commercial purposes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battle Over a Barnes & Noble in Bridgehampton] Reference

Oneness of life, was no easy task for the inheritor of such desires and beliefs and appetites as an ancestry of rulers imposes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cosmic Consciousness] Reference

The fraught issue of the rightful inheritor of the authentic voice of the Scandinavian crime novel has never been more pressing.    From Wordnik.com.  [After Wallander: a new generation of Scandinavian detectives takes over] Reference

And if it is making money, then the tax code allows the inheritor a long time to pay the taxes from the proceeds of the business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pearlstein: On tax fight, Obama can't afford to lose] Reference

The inheritor of the house, who wishes not to be named, went out to Santa Fe from Boston to put it in order before renting it again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greenwich Murder Time] Reference