Sentence examples for Fall heir to from inspiring English sources

MOST people of a certain age know about the air fare discounts we fall heir to when we pass 62.

"I've sort of fallen heir to it," she told the interviewer from the University of Nevada.

The Romans, who fell heir to the Hellenistic world, transplanted the city into the technologically backward areas beyond the Alps inhabited by pastoral-agricultural Celtic and Germanic peoples.

Janos waited on him at Cafe Boulevard, and, when the Baron died fell heir to his belongings among which was found a street cleaner's uniform & broom.

Greek mythology has subsequently had extensive influence on the arts and literature of Western civilization, which fell heir to much of Greek culture.

In February 1516, when his mother died, Henry fell heir to the House of Albret claim; and in 1521, supported by French forces, he invaded Navarre but suffered crushing defeat.

The South fell heir to great stores of equipment there and built the Confederate ironclad Virginia from the hull of the scuttled USS Merrimack.

While an Anglo‐Saxon judi cial system was implanted in North America, Latin America fell heir to a hodgepodge of laws and codes mostly descend ed from the Napoleonic Code.

I do not think anybody has compromised himself; I think everybody has fallen heir to a system that is disagreeable, disenchanting, interruptive, and unhealthy.

By John C. Mosher The New Yorker, October 13 , 1928P. 52 Story of the credit man who fell heir to half a million dollars.

The Jew, being in great financialstraits, learns from a lawyer that he has fallen heir to a largefortune from a great-aunt, and moves into a great house, fittedluxuriously.