Men of the old lion-breed know each other in spite of dress or heirship of opinion.

When that outworn empire perished with the fall of Constantinople, Ivan succeeded nominally at least to its heirship.

The coincidence of the double reference to the same thing, however, namely, an alleged heirship, struck him as peculiar.

He began to fear lest he should be obliged to fulfil the duty of heirship to the property deposited with him.

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1.If you be the head man of a Church noble is the power, better for you that you be just who take the heirship of the king.

1.If you be the head man of a Church noble is the power, better for you that you be just who take the heirship of the king.

The British world regards the position of heirship to acres as the most desirable which a young man could hold.

And as to that matter of heirship, he gave his brother to understand that it was not to be regarded as a settled thing.

Giraldus Cambrensis mentions, that MacMurrough, having, in the year 1167, procured letters patent from Henry II., repaired to England, and there induced Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke and Strighul, to engage to aid him, on condition of receiving, in return, the hand of his eldest daughter, Eva, and the heirship of his dominions.

Having become established in fact, this heirship in lands and local powers was soon recognized by the law.

Amongst the ancient Germans royal heirship was generally confined to one and the same family; but election was often joined with heirship, and had more than once thrust the latter aside.

Amongst the ancient Germans royal heirship was generally confined to one and the same family; but election was often joined with heirship, and had more than once thrust the latter aside.

this two-fold heirship, which gave him the perfect stamp of a legitimate monarch.

Any one who reads to much purpose in De Mably, or Guizot, or Henri Martin, knows that this part of Richelieu's statesmanship was but a masterful continuation of all great French statesmanship since the twelfth-century league of king and commons against nobles, and that Richelieu stood in the heirship of all great French statesmen since Suger.

The news of his sole heirship was so pleasant and unexpected that he did not even think of asking how his sister had disgraced them, and only said with a deep sigh: "Oh, mamma, she was always opposed to you.

From the moment in which he had first admitted the fact that Augustus Scarborough was the true heir-at-law, he had been most determined in taking care that that heirship should be established.

In the meanwhile Peter's mother and aunt, just as unconscious that his heirship had ever been a doubt, as that it had been secured to him then and there, sat waiting below, dressed in their best, to receive these visitors, and press them to partake of a handsome collation that had been prepared by their mother's order, and was now spread for them with unwonted state and profusion in the best parlour.