Inherited

Examples

• Then, havi ng inherited land in Berwickshire, he studied husbandry in Norfolk and took interest in the surface of the land and water-courses; later he pursued these studies in Flanders. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Of the two sons, the eldest, Arthur, inherited the title and estates. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He returned to London, left the army, and went away to the East, with a considerable sum of money which he inherited from his mother. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Unless favourable variations be inherited by some at least of the offspring, nothing can be effected by natural selection. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Archer had reverted to all his old inherited ideas about marriage. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• So, Miss Summerson, she would say to me with stately triumph, this, you see, is the fortune inherited by my son. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• And I never knew much of my father, beyond what my mother told me; but he inherited the musical talents. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• If strange and rare deviations of structure are truly inherited, less strange and commoner deviations may be freely admitted to be inheritable. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The appetite for admiration and small capacity for self-controul which I inherited from my father, nursed by adversity, made me daring and reckless. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Had he inherited it? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• So it was that Charles, his grandson, inherited most of the American continent and between a third and a half of what the Turks had left of Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Changed habits produce an inherited effect as in the period of the flowering of plants when transported from one climate to another. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• He inherited the Blackwater property while still a young man. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Ryland was a man of obscure birth and of immense wealth, inherited from his father, who had been a manufacturer. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Ants, however, work by inherited instincts and by inherited organs or tools, while man works by acquired knowledge and manufactured instruments. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• With cats, for instance, one naturally takes to catching rats, and another mice, and these tendencies are known to be inherited. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• She was a singular being, and, like me, inherited much of the peculiar disposition of our father. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But the disgust prevailed--all her instinctive resistances, of taste, of training, of blind inherited scruples, rose against the other feeling. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Georgy inherited his father's pride, and perhaps thought they were not wrong. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Greek achievement in civilization was native; the civilization of the Alexandrians and Romans was inherited from alien sources. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Any variation which is not inherited is unimportant for us. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• May I ask, Cephalus, whether your fortune was for the most part inherited or acquired by you? Plato. The Republic.
• I have endeavoured in this chapter briefly to show that the mental qualities of our domestic animals vary, and that the variations are inherited. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• But we learn from the study of our domestic productions that the disuse of parts leads to their reduced size; and that the result is inherited. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Her family, which was large, inherited her views, with the exception of one son who settled in Kentucky before the war. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It boasts a correct, steady judgment, inherited from 'mamma,' I suppose. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• We cannot expect to meet our problems with a few inherited ideas, uncriticised assumptions, a foggy vocabulary, and a machine philosophy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The tendency to catch rats rather than mice is known to be inherited. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Natural selection, on the principle of qualities being inherited at corresponding ages, can modify the egg, seed, or young as easily as the adult. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I must have inherited from my father a wild lust for adventure, as well as a hollow where my bump of reverence should be. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.

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