"Heiress" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... they wait for her when she goes into a chapel to pray. Ithink a nurse would have been 'ancilla qu liberos ejus nutriendos susceperat.'" Walter de Biblesworth was the tutor of the "lady Dionysia de Monchensi, aKentish heiress, the daughter of William de Monchensi, baron of Swanescombe, and related, apparently,[[35a]] to the Valences, earls of Pembroke, and wrote his French Grammar, or rather Vocabulary[36], for her. She married Hugh de Vere, the second son of Robert, fifth earl of Oxford. ...
— Early English Meals and Manners • Various
... I'm going to enjoy every moment of it; and you're going to let me help, you know—look over papers, and all that. I'm the heiress, you must ...
— Other Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland
... longer scope in the State for men of spirit; even the gaols were handed over to the stern mercy of crop-eared Puritans; Moll herself had fallen upon evil times; and Ralph Briscoe determined to make a last effort for wealth and retirement. At the very moment when his expulsion seemed certain, an heiress was thrown into Newgate upon a charge of murdering a too importunate suitor. The chain of evidence was complete: the dagger plunged in his heart was recognised for her own; she was seen to decoy him to the secret corner of a wood, where his raucous love-making ...
— A Book of Scoundrels • Charles Whibley
... Viscount bets (Some heiress he must really "pick up"), How noble dames smoke cigarettes And noble heels in ballets kick up. How "H.R.H."—n'importe! my friend Experience shows me that the laches Of such as air these letters tend In the ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100. March 14, 1891. • Various
... an heiress, he does not impale his arms with hers, as in the preceding examples, but bears them in an escutcheon of pretence in the centre of the shield, showing his pretension to her lands in consequence of his marriage with the lady who is legally entitled to them. The escutcheon of pretence is not ...
— The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition • Anonymous
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