Heiresses

These considerations, beside the fact that the young ladies were what is usually termed heiresses, though not to a very great amount, secured to them a high position in the best society which ❋ Unknown (2003)

At another dinner one of the guests of the prince suddenly shot at me across the table the startling question: "Do you know certain American heiresses" —naming them— "now visiting London?" ❋ Depew, Chauncey M (1922)

At another dinner one of the guests of the prince suddenly shot at me across the table the startling question: "Do you know certain American heiresses" -- naming them -- "now visiting London?" ❋ Unknown (1881)

These considerations, beside the fact that the young ladies were what is usually termed heiresses, though not to a very great amount, secured to them a high position in the best society which Ireland then produced. ❋ Unknown (1880)

They were known as the heiresses of Kinvarra; snub noses and blue eyes betrayed their Celtic blood; and every year they went to spend ❋ Unknown (1892)

Galton, it is as often as not "heiresses" that they pick out, and birth statistics seem to show that these are either less robust or less fecund than others. ❋ Gustav Schwalbe (1880)

We've got our legacies, the beneficiaries of inherited wealth, heirs and heiresses who were born on top of piles and piles of money. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Paris Hilton surely has a much higher level of labor-based income (e.g., appearance and endorsement fees, TV residuals) than most wealthy heiresses. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nina's time at boarding school—and sitting front row at fashion shows in Milan and Paris—also brought her into contact with the heirs and heiresses of Europe's wealthiest families, ranging from Margherita Missoni of the namesake Italian fashion label to Bianca Brandolini d'Adda, who hails from Italian nobility. ❋ Stacy Meichtry (2012)

Wedlock is the incredible story of her transformation from one of eighteenth-century England's richest, most free-wheeling heiresses into a piteous victim of a cruel, manipulative abuser into an improbable poster-child for modern women's rights. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I realize this comments section is a midden into which the author never so much as glances, but hey … what gives with “heiresses”? ❋ Unknown (2010)

In olden, golden Hollywood, Greg Kinnear might have made a comfortable living acting in Frank Capra movies, playing the kind of oily characters that runaway heiresses met on buses, or whom Gary Cooper had to, eventually, pop on the snoot. ❋ John Anderson (2012)

Taxes on corporate profits are exactly the same for middle-class families who have some shares in a 401 (k), and multimillionaire heiresses. ❋ Dylan Matthews (2010)

Yet younger couturiers haven't forgotten elder blue-bloods and heiresses. ❋ Christina Passariello (2011)

Plus, I've met more lesbians who fit into that subculture than are millionaire heiresses (even if they're keeping the money & background, this grounds her and makes her more relatable, at least to me). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Considering that those men were looking for heiresses and lawyers to marry themselves, I don't know which men they thought might marry us: creative writers making $3,000 per semester teaching four nights a week. ❋ Ann Bogle (2012)

Young women desperately need role models? and what the media gives them is heiresses, sex objects, surgery addicts and emotional wrecks. ❋ Kira Cochrane (2010)

When the reality of having to care for the dogs kicked in, it proved to be too much for a lot of wanna-be heiresses and they dropped the quivering canines off at animal shelters. ❋ Unknown (2009)