33 adjectives to describe heiresses
"Nello della Pietra," says M. Beyle, in his work entitled De l'Amour, "obtained in marriage the hand of Madonna Pia, sole heiress of the Ptolomei, the richest and most noble family of Sienna.
Elizabeth will be one of the wealthiest heiresses in the country!"
Then he desired the waiter to go and order a straw-hat, and a little warm coat for me; and when the milliner came, he told her he had stolen a little heiress, and we were going to Gretna Green in such a hurry, that the young lady had no time to put on her bonnet before she came out.
The Case of the lonely heiress.
" Shirley Keeldar was no ugly heiress.
You've lavished your millions upon them unsparingly; they are not only presumptive heiresses but already possessed of independent fortunes.
Were the world to be examined, you could not find a worthier or a lovelier heiress, than the one you have already selected, and whom Providence itself has given you.
No pampered royal heiress, either, for whom the world of hard facts had no reality, and the silken shams of a Court constituted the only standpoint, but one who had already with steady eyes looked danger and disaster in the face and knew them for what they were.
They began calling each other by their Christian names, and soon the simple-minded heiress became as if bewitched by the other girl.
In herhow happy the telling of it makes mebehold my daughter, the child whom for seventeen years I have sought incessantlymy heiress, Lady Madaline Charlewood, the descendant of a race as honored, as ancient, and as noble as your own!" Lord Arleigh listened like one in a dream.
"The deil's in me or no in me," said she; "but this I'm sure of, that Henrietta Hislopthat's our Henney, ye kenthe brawest and bonniest lass in Toddrick's Wynd (and that's no saying little), is the lawful heiress of Mr. John Napier of Eastleys, and was called Henrietta after her mother.
"As this only legal marriage," said she, "has been blessed with no issue, I am of course, as you must be aware, the legitimate heiress-at-law, as my deceased husband's nearest blood-relative.
The beautiful Miss Stewart married the Duke of Richmond; the invincible little Jermyn fell to a conceited lady from the provinces; Lord Rochester took a melancholy heiress; George Hamilton married the lovely Miss Jennings; and, lastly, the Chevalier de Grammont, as the reward of a constancy which he had never shown before, and which he has never practised since, became the possessor of the charming Miss Hamilton.
No pampered royal heiress, either, for whom the world of hard facts had no reality, and the silken shams of a Court constituted the only standpoint, but one who had already with steady eyes looked danger and disaster in the face and knew them for what they were.
His father was a dissipated spendthrift of unspeakable morals; his mother was a Scotch heiress, passionate and unbalanced.
When Carl thought of the severe gray eyes that shot such glances at all lingering youths, the difficulty of winning the pretty heiress seemed to be quite enough, even with a field clear of rivals.
She rejected that instantly, so confident had beauty and position as a prospective heiress made her as to her powers over any man she chose to try to fascinate, so secure was she in the belief that Ross loved her and would not give her up in any circumstances.
and she the reputed heiress of Snickham Manor!
In 1811 she is mentioned as reversionary heiress of his estate.
"My lord," said Countess Joan to him in presence of all his knights, "you are going to defend my inheritance and yours, which my lord of Montfortwrongfully, God knowsdoth withhold from us, and the barons of Brittany who are here present know that I am rightful heiress of it.
Lord Mowbray's two daughters he had no sonswere great heiresses.
Mrs. Gann respected and loved her elder daughters, the stately heiresses of £1500, and scorned poor Caroline, who was likewise scorned, like Cinderella, by her brace of haughty, thoughtless sisters.
All you got to do is to walk into a town, pick out the swellest heiress, an' marry her.
One-half of the number were women,many of them young, beautiful, accomplished, heiresses, "charming widows," poetesses of real celebrity, and, rarer still, of good repute,wives of millionnaires, flashing in satin and diamonds.
He would marry Ramón to Bernardaan ugly, ill-humored, yellowish, skinny creaturebut sole heiress to her father's three beautiful orchards.