1 And he looked on this visit to a churlish old man and a rich and ugly heiress in the same way.
2 From her feminine point of view she could see only one solution, namely, for Nicholas to marry a rich heiress.
3 Yes," returned Pierre with a smile, "and this young man now manages matters so that where there is a wealthy heiress there he is too.
4 Sonya's letter written from Troitsa, which had come as an answer to Nicholas' prayer, was prompted by this: the thought of getting Nicholas married to an heiress occupied the old countess' mind more and more.
5 Willarski was married to a Russian heiress who had a large estate in Orel province, and he occupied a temporary post in the commissariat department in that town.
6 de Saint-Meran, whose sole heiress I am.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 51. Pyramus and Thisbe. 7 He wrote again a few weeks since, to intimate that the heiress was lost, and asking if we knew anything of her.
8 Miss Havisham was now an heiress, and you may suppose was looked after as a great match.
9 A feud broke out in Ardea touching the marriage of an heiress, whose hand was sought at the same time by two suitors, the one of plebeian, the other of noble birth.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXVI. 10 Just then Julie, who by the death of her brothers had become one of the richest heiresses in Moscow, was in the full whirl of society pleasures.
11 There he wavered between the two richest heiresses, Julie and Princess Mary.
12 But he did not run after the unmarried girls, especially the rich heiresses who were most of them plain.