The nobles decided that they should run a race on horseback, and that he whose horse neighed should inherit the throne.
But there can be no question that the higher animals inherit a bodily organisation and a nervous system, the functional working of which gives rise to those inherited modes of behaviour which are termed instinctive.
Some of the descendants inheritthis character, often in a still higher degree, and if this method be pursued throughout several generations, the race is transformed in respect of that particular character.
If we do not take care, the children will more and more inherit this fearful misuse of the nervous force, and the inheritance will be so strong that at best we can have only little invalids.
My protection is assured, and they will also inherit the affection I bore their father.
His Majesty had given this brave man a pension, which his wife was to inherit after his death.
We will adopt us sons; The virtue shall inherit and not blood.
Therefore thou wilt have no difficulty in breaking the treaty when thou shalt inherit power after thy father,--may he live through eternity!
He knows that I would rather yield the arms which I inherit from my grandfather than fail to pay the money due him.
In the vision presented to us in the close of our chapter, and which was granted to Abram as an answer to his question, "Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son;" but it mattered not, he must be put out, for the son of a bondwoman could never inherit the promises made only to the spiritual seed.
Ishmael was manifestly born "of the will of the flesh, and of the will of man," and "flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.
The earldom which this little Margaret was to inherit was Maine.
But the aged invalid is so careful of his health, and the young wife so reckless of hers, that it is now uncertain whether she will inherit his store-houses or he inherit her wedding-rings.
Reflect upon this statement, and then upon the following: ‘And thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
Children born previously to the attack of madness in their parents are less liable to inherit it than those who are born after it.
The children of either too young or too old parents, failing to escape hereditary predisposition, may from birth inherit those characters which are proper to incomplete organic development or to the period of involution.
He did not inherit the noble strain of his ancestors.
We all admit that prudence is an admirable virtue, and occasionally lament, about Christmas, when bills fall in, that we do not inherit it in a greater degree.
He is old and wealthy, with only myself to inherit it; and--would you believe it?
The children of Socrates did not inherit his snub nose, nor the mind either of him who chanced to have this nez retrousse.
It owed its proud position, no doubt, to the fact that when the Otis fortunes collapsed there was but one child left to inherit it and to be supported meanwhile.
That he also enraged his grandfather, who wanted nothing so much as the assurance that his favorite should inherit the territorial honors of his house, may have given zest to his act of renunciation.
His money went fast, it is true; but twenty-five thousand rubles was a large sum in those days, and Boris did not inherit his father's expensive constitution.
If I thought so, I would not deny it; but if I inherit Malmaison, our family will--perish off the earth!
And furthermore (this was an aspect of the case which Colonel Battledown probably kept to himself), it was not beyond the bounds of possibility that Archibald might finallyinherit Malmaison in spite of the accident of his birth.
I inherit from him my personal likes and dislikes.
Thus the Yucatecans inherit this detestable trait from both their parents.
His affection as a father was strained to its utmost tension, but yet more was his faith in being the progenitor of offspring that should inherit the land of Canaan.
Thy people shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
The other Sisters, of whom there were three, were none of them to have the least pretence to inherit Cleve or any part of it.
Furthermore, if either of the Lines failed, in no sort was a collateral to be admitted: but Brandenburg was to inherit Neuburg, or Neuburg Brandenburg, as the case might be.
Two posthumous children are at this moment rolling on the lawn; one will evidently inherit his ferocity, and will probably inherit the gun.
Anna (who married a Bavarian duke) was to inherit the duchy of Austria and Bohemia, in case his male descendants should die out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inherit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
