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  • He married Agnes, the daughter and co-heir of William Gibb, a surgeon of Edinburgh.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • The more authentic style of Syrian liturgical vesture has been preserved by the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church in India, which is co-heir to the West Syrian tradition along with the Syrian Catholic Church.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • “If I were the nephew of a rich old fellow, he never would have given God to ME for a co-heir,” retorted Goupil, with a hideous grin which exhibited his teeth — few, black, and menacing.

    Ursula 2006

  • Each person's identity is that of being a human being created and loved by God, and now, as a baptized Christian, his true identity is in Christ, that he has become a co-heir with Christ.

    Identity and Conversion Terry Nelson 2006

  • Each person's identity is that of being a human being created and loved by God, and now, as a baptized Christian, his true identity is in Christ, that he has become a co-heir with Christ.

    Archive 2006-10-08 Terry Nelson 2006

  • “Well, what is it now?” asked the post master, unlocking the gate for his co-heir.

    Ursula 2006

  • He had now seen the full deformity of that creature that shared with him some of the phenomena of consciousness, and was co-heir with him to death: and beyond these links of community, which in themselves made the most poignant part of his distress, he thought of Hyde, for all his energy of life, as of something not only hellish but inorganic.

    The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 2004

  • While seated beside her at dinner, I felt firmly persuaded that the reason why she would not speak to me was that she disliked me for being her co-heir, and that the Prince, for his part, paid no attention to our side of the table for the reason that the Princess and myself hoped to succeed him, and so were alike distasteful in his sight.

    Youth 2003

  • County Leitrim, who married Hannah, eldest daughter and co-heir of

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • But that his wife was called Gunnora and that she was a daughter and co-heir of Richard de Tourville, he is quite positive.

    The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan

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