Sentence examples for inherit from him from inspiring English sources

The philosopher who could not philosophize feared that his children would inherit from him the sad gifts that were his treasure and his curse.

An academic failure at school, Ransome was left with a lifelong sense of having let his father down – although he did inherit from him a deep love of the English countryside, in particular the hills above Coniston in the Lake District, where the family holidayed each year and which, many years later, would provide the setting, with a few alterations, for Swallows and Amazons.

Isaac Rousseau was one of the small minority of Geneva's residents who enjoyed the rank of citizen of Geneva, a status which Jean-Jacques was to inherit from him.

And that's another thing I've inherited from him: the mask of sanity.

All that made it much harder when I inherited from him.

The more time passed, the more I realised I had inherited from him.

Her father's prominence, like the complexion she inherited from him, was a mixed blessing, Ms. White said.

My own father governed Syria for four years, but I inherited from him neither power nor fortune.

She waited to replace the pork-barrel ministers she inherited from him until corruption charges against them became overwhelming, and implemented only limited reforms.

"I think my brother inherited from him the faculties of memory, imagination and audacity — all virtues that were useless under the Soviet system.

The current prime minister Julia Gillard, also of Labor, succeeded Mr. Rudd and inherited from him a significant uptick in the number of boat arrivals.