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  • What if the contending parties were to join forces, if the Countess-ship of the Countess were to be admitted and the heiress-ship of the Lady Anna, and if the Earl and the Lady Anna were to be united in holy wedlock?

    Lady Anna 2004

  • Here the heir-ship and heiress-ship of the world—here the flame of materials;

    Starting from Paumanok 1900

  • What if the contending parties were to join forces, if the Countess-ship of the Countess were to be admitted and the heiress-ship of the Lady Anna, and if the Earl and the Lady Anna were to be united in holy wedlock?

    Lady Anna 1874

  • Here the heirship and heiress-ship of the world -- here the flame of materials;

    Poems By Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1855

  • Here the heir-ship and heiress-ship of the world, here the flame of materials,

    Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855

  • She had never before heard Margaret speak out so freely, even in the days of her undoubted heiress-ship; and now, though she greatly disliked her niece, she could not avoid mingling something of respect and something almost amounting to fear with her dislike.

    Miss Mackenzie Anthony Trollope 1848

  • It was not that all who worshipped, either at a distance or with passing homage, knew the fact of the heiress-ship, or had ever heard of the £20,000 a year; but, given the status, and the worshippers will come.

    Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite Anthony Trollope 1848

  • Independent of heiress-ship, it appears to me that Paulina charms most of those who see her.”

    Villette 2003

  • Independent of heiress-ship, it appears to me that Paulina charms most of those who see her. "

    Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835

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