How To Use Heiress In A Sentence
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His marriage to an heiress is a tragedy.
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His father had inherited the Acton family baronetcy and his mother was the heiress of a German nobleman, the Duke of Dalberg.
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The countess of Lincoln, twice widowed, once by Thomas, earl of Lancaster, and once by Ebulo Lestraunge, and therefore with two dowers, as well as being the Lacy heiress in her own right, was a very worthwhile prospect for anyone on the rise.
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What if all these old heiresses of the script die one day?
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Bassanio, a noble but poor Venetian, asks his friend Antonio, a rich merchant, for 3,000 ducats to enable him to prosecute fittingly his suit of the rich heiress Portia at Belmont.
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While asked to mediate between the rival families of Lusignan and Angoulême, he married the Angoulême heiress Isabella, who had been betrothed to Hugh de Lusignan.
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Most spectacular in this period, however, were the marriages of European nobles to the heiresses of American millionaires.
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BThe 36 acres of hilltop land were owned by Aline Barnsdall, an oil heiress who dabbled in producing avant-garde theater.
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All this, of course, is predictable - heiress turns to feelgood charity work.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was a rich heiress – I had, I believe, a hundred thousand pounds, or more, and twice as many caprices: I was handsome and witty – or, to speak with that kind of circumlocution which is called humility, the world, the partial world, thought me a beauty and a bel-esprit.
Belinda
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To do her justice, the hotel heiress does a competent job of the task required of her.
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An heiress of thirty years would have been prey enough; he dared not imagine what Katharine, with her fairness, youth, and bank stocks, might have become.
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His novel trots out a rich heiress
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She was heiress to a large fortune, a beautiful estate in the vale of Aylesbury and an extraordinarily fine collection of works of art which her father housed at Mentmore.
Rothschild Women.
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By marrying successively two second cousins, who were themselves heiresses of the same grocery business, he consolidated his fortune to the benefit of his collection, since both marriages were childless.
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Yet younger couturiers haven't forgotten elder blue-bloods and heiresses.
Couture Awakens to Dreamy Looks
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By showing his leg to an heiress; "and the trouser is therefore likely to be a permanent article in the wardrobe, so that its continued existence must be taken as a datum or postulate in any discussion upon vestimentary reform.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851
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Certainly, he could have applied his charms to some rich widow or dim-witted heiress long ago.
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These considerations, beside the fact that the young ladies were what is usually termed heiresses, though not to a very great amount, secured to them a high position in the best society which Ireland then produced.
The Purcell Papers, Volume I
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Rivers, through his marriage to the heiress of the Scales barony, held a significant block of land in Norfolk.
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A cardboard cutout of the skank heiress is being used on lab mice to see if being around humans has any effect on them.
Archive 2007-12-09
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In films, in addition to "Patty Hearst," in which she played the title heiress-turned-terrorist, and the psychological thriller "The Comfort of Strangers" (1990),
The Seattle Times
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Heiress, a wedding dress from 1957 with chevron pleated handkerchief linen descending in tiers banded with handmade Irish crochet, demonstrates the concept at its most magical.
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A woman without brothers could inherit a life-interest in her family's land but unless she married a close cousin - as many such heiresses did - she could not pass the estate on to her children.
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Prosecutors said after investigating the eccentric heiress there was not enough evidence to convict her of petty theft.
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In the novels of the period the dilemma was felicitously solved by the discovery, on the last page, that the apparently penniless heroine was really a great heiress.
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Ramsay, daughter and heiress of David Ramsay, our horologer, and a cadet only thrice removed from the ancient house of Dalwolsey.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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Well-born but impecunious younger brothers kidnap heiresses and roguishly attempt to persuade them into matrimony.
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It's going to follow a pair of celebutante cosmetics heiresses who lose their fortune in a corporate scandal, as they launch an investigation to expose the culprit.
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The tower portion was built about 1420 by Sir Walter Innes, whose father had married Janet de Aberkerder, heiress to the thanage.
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In that era, heiresses were kidnapped and forced to marry landless ‘squireens’ who had no hope of getting a wife on their own merits.
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We mention these things at the mair length, because we would have you all to know, that it is not without due consideration of the circumstances of all parties, that we design, in a small and private way, to honour with our own royal presence the marriage of Lord Glenvarloch with Margaret Ramsay, daughter and heiress of David Ramsay, our horologer, and a cadet only thrice removed from the ancient house of Dalwolsey.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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She was the sole heiress to a huge complex of imperial fiefs and lands in Tuscany, Emilia and Lombardy.
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Instead of shaking a "mailed fist" at the world, young William of Hohenzollern might have been a mediatized princelet on the lookout for an American heiress; there might never have been a Leipzig or a Waterloo, as there certainly would not have been a Sedan, and the heirs of Napoleon might now have been ruling over an empire covering all Central Europe, from the Tiber to the Baltic.
Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers
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In the Anglo-Saxon legal tradition women were unambiguously bearers of such rights, whether as heiresses - in the absence of male heirs - or by right of marriage or as the beneficiaries of gifts.
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Anne Mowbray was bride, duchess, virgin, the richest heiress in the land.
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In addition to Schrader's "Patty Hearst" (1988), in which she played the title heiress-turned-terrorist, and the psychological thriller "The Comfort of Strangers" (1990),
Undefined
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And this may lead to the farther Query, whether dimidiation was originally or universally resorted to in the case of coheiresses?
Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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'That your little niece, the Scotch heiress, is going to marry him.'
The Convert
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“Consummate storyteller Jeffries pens another title in the School for Heiresses series that is destined to captivate readers with its sensuality and wonderfully enchanting plot.”
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
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Well-born but impecunious younger brothers kidnap heiresses and roguishly attempt to persuade them into matrimony.
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Upon the death of Walter de Lacy in 1241 his two granddaughters became heiresses to his lands and lordships in England, the Welsh Marches, and Ireland.
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The 30-something designer, who declines to give his exact age, hobnobs with the aristocratic rich from whom he seeks inspiration he cites European heiress Eugenie Niarchos as his muse.
Without the Prints, Can It Still Be a Pucci?
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In German and Scottish armory the inescutcheon bears the symbols of the paternal side, but in English heraldry it is used to carry the arms of an heiress wife.
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At another dinner one of the guests of the prince suddenly shot at me across the table the startling question: "Do you know certain American heiresses" -- naming them -- "now visiting London?
My Memories of Eighty Years
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In 1906, Hyde went into exile in Paris, where he married and divorced a succession of American heiresses, returning to New York only in 1941.
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She deserved to grovel, but since that didn't appear to be working, she reverted to being the world-weary, spoiled heiress.
THIS HEART OF MINE
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An American heiress brought over to save a noble family?
Times, Sunday Times
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He was the son of Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, by his wife, Anne, coheiress of Dacre and Gillesland, and was born at Finchingfield in Essex on 7th July, 1586.
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This particular Cleat had thought that his inamorata was an heiress but found the opposite to be the case on their wedding night she, in turn, had been told he was a wealthy “milord” and fallen “in love” accordingly.
The Dressmaker
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It now belongs to the Duke of Norfolk, as descended from one of the coheiresses of Gilbert Earl of Shrewsbury, who died in 1616.
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I'm one of the richest heiresses in all of Europe.
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Berenger III, the Great, married Dulcia, heiress of Provence, united the two countships, and entered upon the Aragonese policy of intervention in Italian affairs.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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And so began a saga exploding with murder, robbery… and the kidnapping of a media heiress.
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The young heiress was a good match.
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Wedlock is the incredible story of her transformation from one of eighteenth-century England's richest, most free-wheeling heiresses into a piteous victim of a cruel, manipulative abuser into an improbable poster-child for modern women's rights.
Wedlock: Summary and book reviews of Wedlock by Wendy Moore.
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Of course, it is not obligatory for young heirs and heiresses to make headlines for all the wrong reasons.
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Control of the marriage of a female heiress by the cadet branches of the chiefly house, and the office of tutor or guardian within the clan, were partial answers.
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They are not the same for the gleaner in the field, for the girl who sews at fifteen sous a day, for the daughter of a petty shopkeeper, for the young bourgoise, for the child of a rich merchant, for the heiress of a noble family, for a daughter of the house of Este.
Modeste Mignon
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She deserved to grovel, but since that didn't appear to be working, she reverted to being the world-weary, spoiled heiress.
THIS HEART OF MINE
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Now, supposing that Miss Monroe and Mary O'Grady had agreed to change places, the Pekin heiress, for the time being, occupying Mary O'Grady's place in the humble home at Cork and vice versa, what means of communicating with each other had they arranged?
The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective
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A beautiful, headstrong, and feisty young woman, she was the heiress to the duchy of Hilos, one of the richest provinces.
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These considerations, beside the fact that the young ladies were what is usually termed heiresses, though not to a very great amount, secured to them a high position in the best society which
The Purcell Papers
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It's hard to get reliable info on the US presidential and VP candidates over here in godless Euroland, but I have it on good authority that Palin had an extramarital affair, with a moose or possibly with McCain, who by the way left his disabled wife for a rich heiress and snitched on his fellow POWs.
14 Important Science Questions
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She is beautiful, by every report that we have heard of her, even as an angel; but reflect that she is an heiress -- the inheritress of immense property -- and that, as a matter of course, the temptations are a thousand to one against him.
Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
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One week he's thwarting kidnappers in Rome; the next he might be battling racketeers in London or teaching a spoiled heiress a lesson in the Spanish countryside.
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Orkney and Shetland had been added to certain royal donations, by a marriage with an heiress of the sirname of Speire.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.
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In the later collage poetry this materialism interpolates political and economic facts with society verbiage, relating to Boston's high society and the heiresses tracked by gossip columnists.
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If Matt can repeat himself, so can I. Sewing-machine heiress Anne Labouisse Farnsworth Peretz is not descended from Isaac Merritt Singer himself, but from Singer’s intellectual-property lawyer and partner Clark, who beat down Elias Howe’s claim to the seewing machine patent.
Matthew Yglesias » Peretz Versus Walt
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My wife, being the expectant heiress and lay-rectoress, shall write to satisfy you that she is not suffering from my coercion.
The Pillars of the House, V1
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Mr. Perry, who married one of the coheiresses of the Sidneys, Earls of Leicester, built a fine seat at Turville park, and was sheriff of the county in 1741.
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Apparently the heiress needs a new bestie now Nicole is all preoccupied with the baby.
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Glorious gifts await on the lap of the emerald-gowned heiress who sits beneath the softly falling snow on a starry Christmas Eve.
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He took an heiress to wife and was regarded with suspicion by her family.
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They were known as the heiresses of Kinvarra; snub noses and blue eyes betrayed their Celtic blood; and every year they went to spend
Muslin
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Catheringnettes, Lizzy and Lissy Mycock, from Street Flesh-shambles, were they moon at aube with hespermun and I their covin guardient, I would not know to contact such gretched youngsteys in my ways from Haddem or any suistersees or heiresses of theirn, claiming by, through, or under them.
Finnegans Wake
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They decide to target a rich heiress who is turning 21 and stands to inherit fifty million dollars.
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After the execution of her brother the earl of Warwick in 1499, she was sole heiress to the dukedom of Clarence and the earldoms of Salisbury and of Warwick, and was granted the title countess of Salisbury in 1513.
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The shocking story of an accomplished heiress who was tricked into marrying an Irish scoundrel by a fake duel, her wretched married life, her audacious escape and landmark legal battles, andmost staggering of allher abduction by her estranged husband from a busy London street, seemed like the stuff of fiction.
Wendy Moore explains how she came to write Wedlock, the true story of the disastrous marriage and remarkable divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
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I was a rich heiress -- I had, I believe, a hundred thousand pounds, or more, and twice as many caprices: I was handsome and witty -- or, to speak with that kind of circumlocution which is called humility, the world, the partial world, thought me a beauty and a bel-esprit.
Tales and Novels — Volume 03
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Upon the death of Walter de Lacy in 1241 his two granddaughters became heiresses to his lands and lordships in England, the Welsh Marches, and Ireland.
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To this day, their influence (and lineage) can be traced through many noble European households, and even some royal ones (Princess Diana was descended from New York heiress Frances Work, and the mediatized House of Croÿ is lead by the grandson of an American heiress).
The American Heiress | Edwardian Promenade
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Didn't you marry a German heiress?
Times, Sunday Times
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He had four major relationships, a German baroness, a Spanish aristocrat, an American heiress and, of course, the gorgeous Norwegian model Eva Sannum.
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On a recent episode of 'Dirty Sexy Money,' ABC's soapy drama about the filthy rich, heiress Karen Darling gets married for the fourth time, to a golf pro.
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Paris Hilton surely has a much higher level of labor-based income (e.g., appearance and endorsement fees, TV residuals) than most wealthy heiresses.
Matthew Yglesias » Confirmation Trouble and Tax Reform
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Didn't you marry a German heiress?
Times, Sunday Times
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The sole heiress to her father's bread-flour fortune, she has grown up in a Newport mansion modelled on the Palace of Versailles, and her coming-out ball boasts 800 guests, fountains of champagne, and the release of a cageful of gold-sprayed hummingbirds at midnight.
My Last Duchess by Daisy Goodwin
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[308] By a law of the Alemanni (_Tit_., 57), if two sisters were heiresses to a father's estate and one married a vassal (_colonus_) of the King or Church and the other became the wife of a free man equal to her in rank, the latter only was allowed to hold her father's land, although the rest of the goods were divided equally.
A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions.
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He had no need for wealth; he was married to an American heiress.
Times, Sunday Times
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General Burgoyne, in _The Heiress_, makes Lady Emily tell Miss Alscrip that the magic words are “nimini pimini;” and that if she will stand before her mirror and pronounce these words repeatedly, she cannot fail to give her lips that happy plie which is known as the “Paphian mimp.”
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
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The young heiress was so generous that she gave all her money away in a couple of years.
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Neapolitan army, had married at an advanced age a beautiful, accomplished and rich heiress, the daughter of some contractor; it was "a mariage de convenance," a title bought by wealth and beauty.
Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia with Some Account of the Late Emperor the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People
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He not only had offices at his disposal, he also had heirs, heiresses, and widows.
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About 5 p.m. on Monday, the exhibitionistic artist and brewing heiress Daphne Guinness spent about five minutes getting dressed in the windows at Barneys in advance of the big Costume Institute Gala.
Stars, Socialities at Met Gala
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As the wife of an elite male householder, a widow, or (like Mary and Elizabeth) an heiress, elite women were expected to exercise authority over all servants, to dispense patronage (even if this meant little more than influencing their husbands), and catechize the children of the household "family.
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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Heiress, a wedding dress from 1957 with chevron pleated handkerchief linen descending in tiers banded with handmade Irish crochet, demonstrates the concept at its most magical.
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Then she simply stays in bed all the following day, drinking tea, eating chocolates and reading about strong-jawed, saturnine heroes and almond-eyed heiresses disguised as pageboys.
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Here's the blurb (follow the link to read an excerpt): Injured Blood Hunter Navarre is kidnapped along with oil heiress Marissa Vasquez.
Angels' Blood Countdown: Jennifer St Giles - Kiss of Darkness/Bride of the Wolf ARCs
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The heiress lozenge is a specific in some consumptions.
Belinda
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He had no need for wealth; he was married to an American heiress.
Times, Sunday Times
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In medieval England, a rape law existed, but according to Anna Clark, it was primarily formulated to deal with abduction and the illicit marriage of heiresses.
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Belinda Hoare, of Home and Away, portrays the extraordinary lead character, Miss Julie a fallen, desperate, sexually predatory heiress seeking to be saved by love.
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Berenguer the Great with Dulcia, heiress of Provence, made the relations between the peoples of the langue d'oc so close that the subsequent development of Catalonia was connected rather with that of the South of France.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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A mischievous comic tone is also set right away, so that by the time we meet eccentric shut-in heiress Penelope Stamp (a luminous Rachel Weisz), it fits right in.
The long con of “The Brothers Bloom” » Scene-Stealers
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An American heiress unearths a shocking conspiracy while searching for a missing elderly train passenger.
The Sun
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The manor, with S. Hall, belongs to the coheiresses of the Baroness Braye.
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An American heiress brought over to save a noble family?
Times, Sunday Times
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Thus, when more than one different coat of arm is marshaled on a shield, through descent from heraldic heiresses, it was placed 'quarterly'.
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She, an heiress and once "gentle, neurotic creature", is now poverty-stricken; a "hag" spewing misery, resentment and, throughout the length of this sprawling, at times exhausting, novel, vivid threats of suicide and infanticide.
The Man Who Loved Children – review
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A wealthy heiress is murdered aboard a luxury cruise liner, and everyone's a suspect.
Archive 2007-09-01
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Or maybe Jordan was just asking the hotel heiress if she'd seen her missing clothes.
The Sun
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King Henry V, the eldest son of Henry, Earl of Derby and Mary Bohun, coheiress of the Earldom of Hereford, was born at Monmouth Castle.
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He remained an active member of the Commons and in 1786 scored a stage success with The Heiress.
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Vercelli, Alessandria, Novara, and Tortona, and had amassed great riches, finding his end approach, and having no children, left his wife Beatrice heiress of his estates, and arranged with his friends that a marriage should be effected between her and Filippo.
The History of Florence
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She was recognized by a grand national assembly at Scone as heiress to the throne.
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She was recognized by a grand national assembly at Scone as heiress to the throne.
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Indeed the law obliged heiresses on their father's death to marry his closest available relative, even if it meant divorcing their current spouse, to keep property intact.
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In all his encounters with his son, the count was always conscious of his own guilt toward him for having wasted the family fortune, and so he could not be angry with him for refusing to marry an heiress and choosing the dowerless Sonya.
War and Peace
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From the start, doubts surrounded her claim to be the missing heiress.
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The daybed was originally a Polynesian dugout canoe, brilliantly transformed into a surreal and unlikely daybed by some strategically-placed padding and throw pillows - a perfect place for a New York heiress to take an afternoon siesta.
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Of those, the one in which I had taken up my present residence was amongst the best; though its exterior was so unpresuming, that I was inclined to give Mordecai, or rather his gay heiress, credit for humility, or perhaps for the refinement of striking their visiters with the contrast between its simplicity of exterior and richness of decoration within.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
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Burgundian lands regained by marriage (1156) with Beatrice, heiress of the county of Burgundy; purchase of lands from the Welfs in Swabia and Italy; exploitation of regalian rights.
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Hals speaks of two coheiresses of the Vospers, to one of whom this estate was assigned.
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This rule of thumb, creatively applied (you won't be encountering many actual imperial heiresses or prostitutes), could be used to address virtually every circumstance you're likely to encounter this week.
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From the conversation Korolyov learned that the patient was Madame Lyalikov's only daughter and heiress, a girl of twenty, called Liza; she had been ill for a long time, and had consulted various doctors, and the previous night she had suffered till morning from such violent palpitations of the heart, that no one in the house had slept, and they had been afraid she might die.
The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories
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Or maybe Jordan was just asking the hotel heiress if she'd seen her missing clothes.
The Sun
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Against the mighty forces of the assembled star-kings, the army of Valkyr counted for almost nothing; but the savage fighting men of the Edge carried with them their talisman -- Alys Imperatrix, uncrowned sovereign of the Galaxy, Heiress of the Thousand Emperors ...
Archive 2010-01-01
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You have this attention-seeking heiress without the sense God gave rabbits, desperately looking to become famous.
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Control of the marriage of a female heiress by the cadet branches of the chiefly house, and the office of tutor or guardian within the clan, were partial answers.
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Kerry, whose family glory lies in an illustrious and historic past, has worked energetically to secure his place in the upper reaches of American society, and twice married heiresses.
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On a recent episode of 'Dirty Sexy Money,' ABC's soapy drama about the filthy rich, heiress Karen Darling gets married for the fourth time, to a golf pro.
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Then she simply stays in bed all the following day, drinking tea, eating chocolates and reading about strong-jawed, saturnine heroes and almond-eyed heiresses disguised as pageboys.
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An American heiress unearths a shocking conspiracy while searching for a missing elderly train passenger.
The Sun
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He was the posthumous son of Geoffrey Plantagenet, fourth son of Henry II, by Constance, heiress of the Dukes of Brittany.
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It is the same too, in London; there are plenty of penniless men who marry wealthy heiresses instead of seeking out their own living.
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Calling a fabulously dressed heiress "fearless" gives her a little too much creative credit.
She Wore It Well
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The coheiresses, in the reign of King John, married Vernon and Bassett.
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The plot is about a pair of cosmetic company heiresses who lose their family fortune.
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She deserved to grovel, but since that didn't appear to be working, she reverted to being the world-weary, spoiled heiress.
THIS HEART OF MINE
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The 23-year-old hotel heiress and star of reality TV series The Simple Life wants to be taken seriously as an actress and rules out taking part in nude scenes.
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He married Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of Tristram Colan of Colan.
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No one likes to hear about heiresses unless they're in danger.
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The hotel heiress is keen to live forever and has invested a large sum of money in the world's biggest suspended animation cemetery, Cryonics Institute.
Archive 2007-10-21
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Galton, it is as often as not "heiresses" that they pick out, and birth statistics seem to show that these are either less robust or less fecund than others.
Evolution in Modern Thought
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I tell you "-- vindictively --" if you will consent to give up the family of the man who stole my Eleanor from me I will make you my heiress.
Molly Bawn
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At another dinner one of the guests of the prince suddenly shot at me across the table the startling question: "Do you know certain American heiresses" —naming them— "now visiting London?
My Memories of Eighty Years
