heir,

More than once he expressed his regret that God had not given him a son and heir,

A Desperate Character 2006

Here Cephalus retires to look after the sacrifices, and bequeaths, as Socrates facetiously remarks, the possession of the argument to his heir,

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

He had obtained, by promise of Edward the Confessor, the reversion of the crown upon the death of that monarch; and when the issue came, he availed himself of that reversion and the Pope's sanction, and also of the disputed succession between Harold, the son of Godwin, and the true Saxon heir,

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

On which occasion, the party admitted to the estate, whether purchaser or heir,

Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various

A match between the niece of Amon-meses, the Princess Ta-user, and the heir,

The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller

Rather than have made that savage duke thine heir,

Act I. Scene I. The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth 1914

An 'bairns greet for them when they're dead. [weep]' My poor tup-lamb, my son an 'heir,

Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

S: And surely I fear my cousins after me, and my wife is barren, therefore grant me from Thyself an heir,

Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902

As the courtiers have tried to make the king believe that his nephew would fain keep him single lest he should have an heir,

Stories of the Wagner Opera 1894

This happened in 1436, and it cost the King his life the following year at the hands of Robert Graham, uncle and tutor of the young heir,

Chronicles of Strathearn John Hunter 1883