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They had been heritors and subjects of cruelty and outrage so long that nothing could have startled them but a kindness.

A Heritors' Gothic church with an impressive pulpit and curved balcony, it houses a touch-screen interactive display, photos and articles about the church and village history as well as local lass and Second World War Holocaust heroine Jane Haining.

Equally important, this new legislative state of affairs brought the Gwich'in nation, heritors of a powerful place-based storytelling culture, (9) to the forefront of public national and international struggles over the Arctic Refuge.

Heritors (citizens) of the parish, obliged by law to support the poor, objected to the extravagant cost of the affair and questioned its propriety as a charge against the poor fund.

xxiv Considerations on the importation of foreign corn; arising out of the proceedings, at a meeting of the Heritors of Fifeshire, proposing to petition the Legislature for further restriction, as published in the Courier newspaper of the 10th Dec.

Secondly, landowners, also known as heritors or lairds, effectively funded the local parish church, and appointed and looked after the welfare of ministers.

Surely Ludwig von Mises, finding in his adopted homeland only an untenured professorship at NYU unfunded by the school, and Russell Kirk, who quipped that he would have been "better off frying chicken for Colonel Sanders's heritors" after paying contributors to Modern Age out of his pocket, didn't adopt their beliefs as an exercise in careerism.

"Communist propaganda," Nabokov writes, depicted Russian emigres as "villainous generals, oil magnates, and gaunt ladies with lorgnettes." Against this image suggesting treachery and irrelevance, Nabokov redefines the emigre world as that of writers and poets, the heritors of the prerevolutionary Russian culture.

The earth is the heritage of man, and these are a portion of the heritors. We are not bound to support them; they must support themselves.

'Heritors' (landowners) had an equally deep-seated suspicion about how the Kirk Session would spend money--and the political clout to ensure their own vision of 'economy' prevailed--a situation not reached in England until 1834.

A document from August 1684 records fines totalling 274,737 [pounds sterling] Scots (nearly 23,000 [pounds sterling] sterling) levied on the heritors of Roxburghshire alone.