Reflect now, that there is only one frail life between me and the Heirship of my father's earldom-the life of my epileptic half-brother Francis, who, inheriting the malady of his beautiful young mother who perished in her youth, has declared that he will never marry to perpetuate such a misfortune."
"Her Mother's Secret"
Emma D. E. N. Southworth
Oh, who that ever muses on the soul's Heirship to the divine, can wish he had never been born?
"The Jericho Road"
W. Bion Adkins
"If they haven't got it by Heirship they can't make it by industry, and to accuse them of being without it is taking a mane advantage.
"Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon 1893"
Hall Caine