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Example sentences for "disinherited"

Lexicographically close words:
disinfection; disingenuous; disingenuousness; disinherit; disinheritance; disinheriting; disintegrate; disintegrated; disintegrates; disintegrating
  1. If I be guilty I can answer for my error, but his Eminence only obeyed the dictates of his heart and can only have transgressed by excess of love for the disinherited of the world!

  2. Those whom you have so well called the disinherited of the world, are certainly the object of our solicitude.

  3. Nor doth the devil, our night and day adversary, forbear to tell our bad deeds to our Father, urging that we might for ever be disinherited for this.

  4. What have I disinherited my poor soul of!

  5. At any rate, if on inspection we think it wrong to interfere, I can at least try and get the children of the disinherited Tyrrel back to their home.

  6. He says one of the grandsons of the Tyrrel-Rawdons, disinherited for love's sake, came to America some time in the forties.

  7. This disinherited Rupert had become more or less of a hero in Miss Griselda's eyes.

  8. Her little son was undoubtedly a lineal descendant of the disinherited Rupert Lovel, but also, and alas!

  9. What complication-loving fiend should have brought to her recollection then the vision of that pictured face which had made such an impression upon her--the face of the disinherited heir of Lant Hall?

  10. No less a personage than the disinherited heir, Ralph Vallance.

  11. He had been disinherited and thrust aside, but still he had felt all along that it was he who was the natural heir; and there was a satisfaction in having it thus proved and established.

  12. So the hapless Edwin was disowned and disinherited by his indignant parent, who granted him a stipend barely sufficient for subsistence, and thrust him forth as an alien.

  13. It was so pitiful to see the sorrow on the dear old face as she would nestle the wronged and disinherited child to her heart and would say so mournfully, "Oh, I never, never expected this!

  14. It was the disinherited heir to the estates himself!

  15. He would have disinherited him--disinherited Ross, turned him out--penniless!

  16. Our present vassals are the descendants of that disinherited race which has been successively the slaves, serfs and vassals of our ancestors.

  17. Were they not a conquered and disinherited race?

  18. Now the misfortune of revolutionists is that they are disinherited, and their folly is that they wish to be disinherited even more than they are.

  19. Shelley's mind disinherited itself out of allegiance to itself, because it was too sensitive and too highly endowed for the world into which it had descended.

  20. He spoke with passion of the millions disinherited before their birth, with infinite tenderness of those weak ones whom our social system condemns to a life of torture, just because they are weak.

  21. In his heart he triumphed over the disinherited aristocrat; outwardly he was civil, even friendly.

  22. The writer, explaining how the disinherited gravitate inevitably towards theft, became, by the simple fact of this explanation, a thief himself.

  23. The clerk concluding that this was some optical delusion, proceeded with his work, and had come to the clause wherein the Master of Draycot disinherited his son, when again the same ghostly hand was thrust between the light and the parchment.

  24. I suppose I know what being disinherited means?

  25. You know that he must be a very wicked man for uncle to have disinherited him.

  26. At the end of a long silence, the girl said-- 'So long as you know that I am no longer angry with him for having disinherited me, I do not mind telling you the reason.

  27. After he had been summoned twice by sound of trumpet, it became necessary to name another; and the Disinherited Knight was for the second time named champion of the day.

  28. Amongst the ranks of the Disinherited Knight was a champion in black armour, mounted on a black horse, whose shield bore no device of any kind.

  29. But the Disinherited Knight, with all courtesy, declined their request.

  30. If we do not," said the Disinherited Knight, "the fault will not be mine.

  31. In the thick of the press and turmoil of the fight Bois-Guilbert and the Disinherited Knight repeatedly endeavoured to single out each other, spurred by mutual animosity.

  32. And there is Rowena, for whom the Disinherited Knight shall fight against all comers.

  33. The Norman's spear, striking the centre of his antagonist's shield, went to shivers, and the Disinherited Knight reeled in his saddle.

  34. The acclamations of thousands applauded the award of the prince, announcing that day's honours to the Disinherited Knight.

  35. The Templar's horse had bled much, and gave way under the shock of the Disinherited Knight's charge.

  36. But at this moment the party of the Disinherited Knight had the worst.

  37. Disinherited kept coming across the wet paths of the sea to this old El Dorado.

  38. These disinherited darker peoples must either share in the future industrial democracy or overturn the world.

  39. Hence I soon intend to remove you from this country disinherited by Heaven, and return to our native land.

  40. It was the place where the treaty which had given France to England had been signed; where the French princess, Catherine, was married to Henry Fifth of England, and where the Dauphin was disinherited by his mother.

  41. By that infamous treaty of Troyes by which Charles, the Dauphin, was disinherited in favor of Henry Fifth of England the Queen lost us France.

  42. No, I believe he had no children; but even if he had, they would have been disinherited also.

  43. He disinherited and disowned his son for having honorably married a woman whom he considered below him in station, but for an open affaire d'amour with that son's wife, he had not even a word of censure.

  44. Yes, I know the old gentleman disinherited Harold, but would his heirs have no claim?

  45. On my wedding-day I vowed that I would yet bring Hugh Mainwaring to my feet as my lover, and when, shortly afterwards, your father was disinherited in his favor, my desire for revenge was only intensified.

  46. I am but little better than a wanderer, disinherited of his own.


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