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Meanings of sole heiress in English

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Usage of sole heiress in English
1
She was the beauty of the season, and her father's sole heiress.
The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911
2
My granddaughter is not my sole heiress; not my heiress in the slightest degree.
For Woman's Love
3
But the penniless Countess of Hurstmonceux was the sole heiress of the wealthy old Jew, Jacob D'Israeli.
Ishmael; Or, In the Depths
4
To Josian my daughter and sole heiress.
Masters of the Guild
5
The sole heiress of his enormous wealth!
The Lost Lady of Lone
6
Nothing seemed more natural to him, or even more reasonable, than that Agnes should be made sole heiress.
Bred in the Bone; Or, Like Father, Like Son: A Novel
7
But my lawyer tells me that, as his sole heiress, I can claim his share of the inheritance.
The Coming Conquest of England
8
Popularly supposed to be the old boy's daughter, and his sole heiress, Miss Nadine, concluded the young aid-de-camp.
A Fascinating Traitor: An Anglo-Indian Story
9
He would marry Ramón to Bernarda-anugly, ill-humored, yellowish, skinny creature-butsole heiress to her father's three beautiful orchards.
The Torrent (Entre Naranjos)
10
I have seen in several of your papers, in the society columns, my granddaughter referred to as my sole heiress.
For Woman's Love
11
Moreover, she was reported to be the only descendant of her grandfather and the sole heiress of his fabulous wealth.
For Woman's Love
12
He learned of the burying of Sir John Clavering and of her naming as sole heiress to his great estates.
Red Eve
13
With his first wife, the daughter and sole heiress of John Vaughan, Earl of Carberry in Ireland, he never cohabited.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
14
His daughter is the sole heiress of his wide estates, and as her husband you will have a splendid position.
With Frederick the Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War
15
Taillefer, calmly dipping her bread and butter in her coffee cup, will be sole heiress of her father's fortune and affections.
Father Goriot
16
She had been brought up to believe herself his sole heiress, to look upon his second marriage as an utter impossibility.
The Lovels of Arden
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