1 And the stores and warehouses along the railroad track near the depot, which were part of her inheritance, had tripled in value since the war began.
2 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom He loved.
3 The chief of these was the question of inheritance: Mrs. Cutter told her husband it was plainly his fault they had no children.
4 His habitual scepticism was like a direct inheritance from that old woman.
5 Safe under the protecting care of her mistress, Eliza had reached maturity without those temptations which make beauty so fatal an inheritance to a slave.
6 Athelstane, it is true, was vain enough, and loved to have his ears tickled with tales of his high descent, and of his right by inheritance to homage and sovereignty.
7 But nature or inheritance had implanted a good sturdy spirit in Oliver's breast.
8 "Well, I seem to have come into an inheritance with a vengeance," said he when the long narrative was finished.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville 9 But Godfrey was the heir to this crabbed old nobleman, and it was quite certain that the news of his marriage would have been the end of his inheritance.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER 10 When I saw them I ceased abruptly to trouble about the Morlocks, and was only concerned in banishing these signs of the human inheritance from Weena's eyes.
11 To families divided by questions of money and inheritance he said: "Look at the mountaineers of Devolny, a country so wild that the nightingale is not heard there once in fifty years."
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP 12 His dream was to come into an inheritance and to have a hundred thousand livres income for mistresses.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH 13 The inheritance of Father Gillenormand did not amount to much; but the inheritance of Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder was considerable.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH 14 Theodule, on his side, though he scented the inheritance, was disgusted at the task of pleasing.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES... 15 I was sensible that I could look for no support from a man disappointed in his hopes of an inheritance.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 57 MEANS FOR CLASSICAL TRAGEDY