Heiress
['eərɪs;eə'res]
Definition
(n.) A female heir.
Checker: Nellie
Examples
- Yes, that is known, said I: all Villette knows her as an heiress. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And he took the heiress's two hands--causing her to let fall her whole cargo of flowers--and seated her by him on the sofa. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Yes, you, rich--quite an heiress. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- A communication on business, said the heiress; but when candles were brought, she neither opened nor read it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There was evidently nothing for it but to go, and Donne made his exodus, the heiress sweeping him a deep curtsy as she closed the gates on him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Has your suit, then, been unsuccessfully paid to the Saxon heiress? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- So there he was, Miss Clack, with his creditors content to wait, and with the certain prospect before him of marrying an heiress. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The contrast of her manners and appearance with those of the heiress, made the idea of a union with the latter appear doubly ludicrous and odious. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Let us first visit the heiress. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The heiress could not make this man her subject. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Miss Havisham was now an heiress, and you may suppose was looked after as a great match. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The family junta wish this heiress to be married to one of their band--which is it? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She showed me these letters; with something of the spoiled child's wilfulness, and of the heiress's imperiousness, she _made_ me read them. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She has only one daughter, the heiress of Rosings, and of very extensive property. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- He wrote again a few weeks since, to intimate that the heiress was lost, and asking if we knew anything of her. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I saw heiresses there worth, in their own right--worth, well, I suppose I might venture to say, as much as nine dollars and a half. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Typist: Murray