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Example sentences for: heir

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When Robert the Bruce died in 1329, his son and heir, David II, was only five years old.
The task was left to Bindusara’s heir Ashoka (269–232 b.c. ), admired by Indians as their greatest ruler, perhaps for his special combination of tough authoritarianism and a high sense of moral righteousness.
Now that everyone realizes how ill the king was when he recently dumped his brother as heir and replaced him with his son, Abdullah, analysts are marveling in retrospect at the king's decisiveness, resolve, and composure.
The Spanish crown duly passed to the Hapsburgs, and Spain remained in their hands until the feeble-minded Carlos II died in 1700, leaving no heir.
On a brighter but no less arbitrary note, childless aristocrats picked genial Edward as their heir; he changed his name and became a snobbish landowner, kind to his less glamorous siblings but also condescending.