Both have gone to their long home, leaving their only child inheritress of a handsome estate. From Wordnik.com. [The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea] Reference
Fadius G alius had left him his heir, and in thfc body of the testator's will it was found that he had directed Sextilius to write his daughter Fadia sole inheritress. From Wordnik.com. [Cicero's Five Books De Finibus: Or, Concerning the Last Object of Desire and Aversion] Reference
If I were HM Queen, as inheritress of a proud and hard-won tradition of fair trials and presumption of innocence, I would want my initials taken off their title, pronto. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Marcella] Reference
Diazepam unionization individualize spatial launch inheritress Kewaunee. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Week in the Life of a Defense Attorney:] Reference
"I have much pleasure in informing you that our dear Mary Ann is the fortunate inheritress of two and a half million dollars by the death of her brother Tom, who, as I learn from the lawyers who have applied to me for news of the family, has just died in America, leaving his money to his surviving relatives. From Wordnik.com. [Merely Mary Ann] Reference
The writer of this cannot help picturing to himself the feelings of a multitude of great and worthy personages in Great Britain and India, and particularly the feelings of a sister, the lovely inheritress of her family's virtues, if they had known at the time, that which our hero's manly pride concealed, that the son of doctor Cooper, whose goodness of heart had often been the refuge of the distressed, was for months languishing under the chill of public neglect, and dragging on existence upon a miserable pittance which scarcely afforded him physical support; or if they had seen him in his unaccommodated removal from that situation, walking on foot to the metropolis. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference
If so thou wilt, inheritress to be. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Atreus] Reference
Inheritor inheritress or inheritrix. From Wordnik.com. [English Grammar in Familiar Lectures] Reference
Moreover, female-specified terms have basically vanished: aviatrix and aviatress, conciliatrix and conciliatress, dictatrix and dictatress, prosecutrix, testatrix, tutrix, relatrix, heritrix or heritress, inheritrix and inheritress, victrix and victress. From Wordnik.com. [The Stupidest Arguments Against Marriage Equality] Reference
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