In 1680 there was living, and in the same year died, the Earl of Ogle, to whom was contracted in her infancy the famous Lady Elizabeth, sole heiress of the last of the Earls of Northumberland.
She was the heiress of a fair fortune, which her philanthropic father dissipated in attempts to civilise the Esquimaux Indians.
That David Garrick, in his acting-version, should allow Mercutio to make open fun of Romeo's love for the daughter and heiress of old Capulet proves how rarely the actor is able to replace the author.
Never mind, Malcolm, there are plenty of Scotch cadets have mended their fortune by means of a rich heiress before now, and I hope there will be many more.
What a match it would be for you, the heiressof Mansfeld; she would be a catch indeed!
So this was the state of mind of the most envied heiress of the faubourg Saint-Germain when she began to find pleasure in walking with Julien.
Madame de Renal, the rich heiress of a devout aunt, and married at sixteen to a respectable gentleman, had never felt or seen in her whole life anything that had the slightest resemblance in the whole world to love.
You have no doubt heard," she said, without looking at him, "that I am the onlyheiress of a very rich aunt who lives at Besancon.
I suppose the sister's just as nice in her own way," went on Gerald, seeing an opportunity to satisfy a certain curiosity he had felt about the heiress since he first heard of her existence.
Before the youngheiress had been mentioned, the journalist had scarcely seen material enough in the interview for a paragraph.
He thought that perhaps this lady would not be unwilling to enliven her house by the attraction of an heiress and a debutante.
More than most girls have, more than the average heiress has.
This heiress was as innocent of jewelry as any little milliner girl of Bond Street, and far more happy, because she did not wish to wear any.
Great were the preparations for the wedding of the powerful Count Bertino and the heiress Elvira, yet of all the gifts showered upon her the one treasured most by the bride was an emerald ring sent by Albaro, the Moorish alchemist.
The lovely Lady Elvira, only daughter and heiress of the Duke of Alezzo, leaned over the marble balustrade of the piazza, pensively gazing at the beauty of the scene before her.
For this little lady, with the not small but expressive mouth, was Miss Violet Graham, and she was, perhaps, the richest heiress in London.
Baldwin secured for his share the country of Alost and Waas, and the citadel of Ghent; and he also succeeded in obtaining in marriage for his son the Countess Richilde, heiress of Hainault and Namur.
October, 1740, left his daughter, the archduchess Maria Theresa, heiress of his throne and possessions.
Such was the elder beauty, the destined heiress of the ancient house, the promised mother of a line of sons, who should perpetuate the name and hand down the principles of the Fitz-Henries to far distant ages.
My will, as you no doubt have learned, makes you the one and only heiress to the modest sum I feel so happy to be able to leave you.
Do not ask me to your brilliant wedding if you marry with the million-heiress of the caprices.
An heiress is almost by necessity the one last feeble and flickering relic of a moribund stock--often of a stock reduced by the sordid pursuit of ill-gotten wealth almost to the very verge of actual insanity.
Henry the Second, married Adeliza, daughter and heiress of Sir Ralph de Thingumbob, and had issue thirteen stalwart sons and twenty-seven beautiful daughters, each founders of a noble family with a correspondingly varied pedigree.
Marie de Nevers alive stood in the way of your marriage to the heiress Miss Lovelace.
If, however, you accept this commission I shall consider you in honour bound to surrender your claim upon my name for which I agree to pay you fifty thousand francs upon my marriage with the American heiress of whom you know.
Never have I loved my wife more--never have I so much desired to leave her the heiress of all I possess, should I die before her.
Some fine day we'll find you a pretty heiressin the neighborhood.
Stupid and plain as an heiress in the eyes of the world, she became intellectual and beautiful to her husband.
She is a relation of both the Becks and Walravens; she derives her baptismal name from the sainted nun who would have been her aunt had she lived; her patronymic is Sauveur; she is an heiress and an orphan, and M.
The family junta wish this heiress to be married to one of their band --which is it?
The very winds of heaven seemed to carry news in Speckport, and before night everybody at all concerned knew that the heiress of Redmon had turned up.
I thought myself an heiress as you did, Nathalie; my father was looked upon as a rich and honorable man, and his only daughter the most enviable girl in all the city of Montreal.
The heiress and the governess were seated opposite one another, an inlaid table between them.
If the heiress of Redmon had been the pig-faced lady, she could hardly have attracted more attention.
Good Miss Jo, who thought the motherless heiress would rejoice at the tidings she brought her, was scandalized at the speech.
He was going to a party to-night--a party given by Mrs. Darcy, to introduce the new heiress of Redmon to Speckportian society.
It was a perfect little bijou of a cottage, and the heiress danced from room to room on Monday morning with the glee of a happy child delighted with its new toy, and hugged Laura at least a dozen times over.
No one had wished more to see the heiress than he.
She had come there in the belief--implanted by Mrs. Leroy herself--that she was to be the heiress of Redmon.
The heiress had a sicklier air than the waif, and was less beautiful in colouring.
Why should you begrudge me anheiress if I have the wit to win one?
Because you are a wealthy heiress and I am a poor devil--hack scribbler--living by my wits.
And she is heiress to old Bosworth's fortune, which rumour has exaggerated into a million.
How could he hope that she would be true to him when once she discovered the power of her position as an heiress and a beauty?
He is courting an heiress just escaped from the nursery.
A lovely heiress would have seemed a natural prey to the roue who had ever exercised a potent fascination over the weaker sex, and who deemed himself invincible.
If she is an heiress she is not for me, save by the baseness of an elopement and a Mayfair marriage; and that were to take the vilest advantage of girlish innocence and heavenly confidence.
It was the heiress who was lamenting her infantine woes.
For Mr. Bosworth's daughter, the heiress of wealth which had become somewhat notorious by the mere progress of years, there would be snares and traps, and it was well that she should be guarded closely.
Would it surprise Mr. Asterley to hear that the heiress is found already?
Early in life he had been taught that he ought to marry an heiress for the benefit of his estate--his ancestral estate; the restoration of which he had been bred to consider the grand object and ambition of life.
Knowing how bad they were, he had abandoned the post of duty, for it was his duty to protect his love and the heiress of the family whose bread he had eaten from childhood.
They would leave presently, declaring that the heiress had flung her money in their faces in so vulgar a fashion that self-respect compelled departure.
My poor nephew was to be married to the richest heiress in Blois; but the day before his wedding he went mad.
She was the heiressof the Beauchamps and De Spensers in consequence of the recent death of her brother, "the King of the Isle of Wight"--and through her inheritance her husband had risen to his great power.
That male heirs of the opposite party should have expelled the orphan heiress was only too natural an occurrence.
He said that to be known as the fugitive heiress of Whitburn who had bewitched the young squire and many more might bring both her and himself into imminent danger; and there were Lancastrian exiles who might take up the report.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heiress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: child; daughter; descendant; heir; heiress; inheritor; offspring; recipient; scion; son; successor
