Poetry is the exclusive birthright of no age of people.

The church has sold its birthright for the privilege of exploiting the credulity and the fears of the people.

She sought vainly for the poise and composure which were her natural birthright in most of the situations of life.

I hold my birthright to a beggar's scrip, The bastard is escaped in my clothes.

Being attacked for his birthright by the family of ATHOLL, then in power and favour with KING WILLIAM, yet, by the valour and fidelity of his clan, and the assistance of the CAMPBELLS, the old friends and allies of his family, he defended his birthright with such greatness and fermety of soul, and such valour and activity, that he was an honour to his name, and a good pattern to all brave Chiefs of clans.

So Jacob may have said to himself, and not have been very wrong in saying it: 'I have as good a right to the birthright as Esau.

Authority, though divided, was not less a birthright than in those governments in which it was openly avowed to be a dispensation of Providence.

Oh, remember those who perished For thy birthright at the time When to be a Scot was treason, And to side with Wallace, crime!

And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.

Being attacked for his birthright by the family of ATHOLL, then in power and favour with KING WILLIAM, yet, by the valour and fidelity of his clan, and the assistance of the CAMPBELLS, the old friends and allies of his family, he defended his birthright with such greatness and fermety of soul, and such valour and activity, that he was an honour to his name, and a good pattern to all brave Chiefs of clans.