Sentence examples for heritor from inspiring English sources

The fact that, in contrast, survival was not significantly reduced for firstborn sons could be due to an increased effort made by parents to protect the life of their first son, especially in his early years, because at that time he is still the only son they have, and therefore the only potential heritor of their wealth.

Hemingway and Dos Passos in the first world war; Mailer, Heller, Jones and Vonnegut in the second world war; O'Brien, Herr and Marlantes in Vietnam: they're all heritors of Bierce.