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Example sentences for "disinheritance"

Lexicographically close words:
disinfecting; disinfection; disingenuous; disingenuousness; disinherit; disinherited; disinheriting; disintegrate; disintegrated; disintegrates
  1. As for her, when she heard that the act of disinheritance was not to be drawn up, her tears were changed to tears of joy.

  2. Many of them he kept, and hunted in the mountains.

  3. A very instructive tale this for some of our Nimrods, mighty hunters and racers in the land; but it is not to be pressed too strictly into the service of the parsimonious.

  4. Actæon-tragedy to another subject and moral, and take the words, Pleasure purchased by anguish.

  5. Upon this contention, that the voluntary annulment of a disinheritance precludes a repetition of the act, I could enlarge further, but will not labour the point.

  6. Persuasive measures will then accomplish more than all the efforts of the parent to prevent an unhappy union, by threats of disinheritance and expulsion from home.

  7. Hence they will dictate to their children, make their marriage alliance a mere business matter, and demand implicit obedience on the penalty of expulsion from the parental home, and disinheritance forever.

  8. His disinheritance by his father was still fresh in his mind--still bitter; but far more bitter the rejection by his sweetheart.

  9. Formerly he had felt reckless, from the curse that had been resting upon him; that is, the remembrance of Belle Mainwaring, and the disinheritance he had deemed so cruel.

  10. General Harding would repent the disinheritance of his younger son, and revoke the will he had made, perhaps in a moment of spite or passion.

  11. We mentioned that Sidonia had acquired a thorough knowledge of the circumstances which had occasioned and attended the disinheritance of Coningsby.

  12. Henry Sydney was sanguine; he was reconciled to the disinheritance of Coningsby by the conviction that it was a providential dispensation to make him a Lord Chancellor.

  13. The assurance of the guinea was effectual; Walter signed the deed, which was witnessed by Charles and the clerk; and the disinheritance was thus made complete.

  14. Then you were so circumstanced that your disinheritance under your uncle's will might seriously incommode you?

  15. From what quarter do you suppose these rumors of Floyd's disinheritance arose?

  16. He had elicited proof to his own mind of Robert's innocence and legal evidence of Harry's disinheritance under the will.

  17. That he should have come back on this very night, when the disinheritance she had dreaded had been so nearly consummated, seemed now to have an especial and an appealing significance.

  18. He had saved an old college-mate from possible disinheritance and the grind of poverty, for David Stires' health was precarious.

  19. And she passed out into the night of disinheritance on earth, "into an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away.

  20. Her father was very angry, and threatened disinheritance if she so disgraced the family.

  21. The time for sowing and reaping oats was the same as wheat.

  22. It is sown at the same time as the wheat, and is ripe almost a week earlier.

  23. In truth her mind was never with the matter in hand, and just now she was full of speculation as to what would have been her feelings if this fine young man had been her son, and his disinheritance the sacrifice she contemplated.

  24. But the threat of disinheritance was not forthcoming.

  25. The note of permanency in the chronic rite of disinheritance was startling.

  26. Lionel, first enraged, but next tamed, by the disinheritance which he had drawn upon himself, had ample subject in his disappointment to keep alive his repentance.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disinheritance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.