You are worthy to be the inheritrix of all I know. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Dog] Reference
Mrs. Le Noir, the daughter of Christopher Smart, an inheritrix of much of his talent. From Wordnik.com. [Our Village] Reference
What, then, shall we say of the facility wherewithal the inheritrix of a kingdom or empire falls between the arms of those errant and unknown knights?. From Wordnik.com. [The Fourth Book. XX. Wherein Is Prosecuted the Manner of Don Quixotes Enchantment, with Other Famous Occurrences] Reference
"If there be any manner of man that will say and maintain that our sovereign Lady, Queen Elizabeth, is not the rightful and undoubted inheritrix to the imperial crown of this realm of England, I say he lieth like a false traitor, and therefore I cast him my gage.". From Wordnik.com. [Makers of Many Things] Reference
Upon the river of Caroli are the Canuri, which are governed by a woman who is inheritrix of that province; who came far off to see our nation, and asked me divers questions of her Majesty, being much delighted with the discourse of her Majesty's greatness, and wondering at such reports as we truly made of her Highness 'many virtues. From Wordnik.com. [The Discovery of Guiana] Reference
Upon the river of Caroli are the Canuri, which are governed by a woman who is inheritrix of that province; who came far off to see our nation, and asked me divers questions of her Majesty, being much delighted with the discourse of her Majestys greatness, and wondering at such reports as we truly made of her Highness many virtues. From Wordnik.com. [The Discovery of Guiana. Paras. 50-102] Reference
Thackeray spoke the words of truth and soberness when, after describing the virtues and the limitations of George III., he said: "I think we acknowledge in the inheritrix of his sceptre a wiser rule and a life as honourable and pure; and I am sure that the future painter of our manners will pay a willing allegiance to that good life, and be loyal to the memory of that unsullied virtue.". From Wordnik.com. [Collections and Recollections] Reference
She might rely on him not to rest until she should be put in possession of the estate, unless it should prove to have been her grandfathers intention, in case of the present melancholy occurrence, that the elder sister should be the sole inheritrix, and he congratulated her on having such a protector, since, under the unfortunate circumstances, the sisters would have had no one to uphold their cause against their natural guardian. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Step-Mother] Reference
A long-resident governor in the East, who having died on his voyage home to England, on her landing she found herself the sole inheritrix of his immense wealth. From Wordnik.com. [Thaddeus of Warsaw] Reference
"And thus," said the old man, "you perceive that this child whose birth was feloniously concealed, and who was cast away to perish among the wretched beggars, thieves and street-walkers of New York, is really the only living child of the late Eugene Le Noir, and the sole inheritrix of the Hidden. From Wordnik.com. [The Hidden Hand] Reference
He added besides, how his lord, in bringing him a good despatch from his Lady Dulcinea of Toboso, would forthwith set out to endeavour how he might become an emperor, or at the least a monarch; for they had so agreed between themselves both, and it was a very easy matter for him to become one, such was the valour of his person and strength of his arm; and that when he were one, he would procure him a good marriage; for by that time he should be a widower at the least; and he would wive him one of the emperors ladies to wife, that were an inheritrix of some great and rich state on the firm land, for now he would have no more islands. From Wordnik.com. [The Third Book. XII. Wherein Are Prosecuted the Pranks Played by Don Quixote in His Amorous Humours in the Mountains of Sierra Morena] Reference
Should be inheritrix in Salique land. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of King Henry V] Reference
Should be inheritrix in Salique land: 56. From Wordnik.com. [Act I. Scene II. The Life of King Henry the Fifth] 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
At the same time she was fully sensible that no other person could be thought of as the inheritrix of her crown; and she resolved, perhaps wisely, to maintain on this subject an inflexible silence: this policy, however, connected with her perseverance in a state of celibacy, began to awaken in her people an anxiety respecting their future destinies, which, being artfully fomented by Scottish emissaries, produced, in 1566, the first symptoms of discord between the queen and her faithful commons. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth] Reference
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