His sporting dresses hang on pegs in a small closet; and about the walls of his apartment are hooks to hold his fishing-tackle, whips, spurs, and a favourite fowling-piece, curiously wrought and inlaid, which he inherits from his grandfather.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
"Perhaps you are right," answered the young mother, "but the resemblance is only outward: all her mental qualities she inherits from her father.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
The young man who inherits a partnership in his father's business really has a handicap on him, and is not as likely to succeed as an employe who starts in at the bottom of the ladder.
"Dollars and Sense"
Col. Wm. C. Hunter