heir-looms

They are amassed and descend as heir-looms in families, from mother to daughter.

Travels in Morocco 2003

Excellent weapons abound in this country, the reason being that there is a perpetual demand for them, and when once purchased, they become heir-looms in the family.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

The interview was a very stormy one; but old Provis, who was so angry with him at first that he struck him with his stick, quickly relented, and gave him the Bible, the jewellery, and the heir-looms which he possessed.

Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton Anonymous

Everything I had seen hitherto was invested with an air of newness, looking as if of yesterday: here, the old furniture and the fashion thereof, even its very arrangement, all told of days long bygone, and seemed to say, "We are heir-looms."

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

Rings, broaches, buckles, and ruffles were heir-looms from parents or grand-parents.

Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler

To see the inmost recesses of "home, sweet home," thrown open to all strangers; the most treasured articles (often descended as heir-looms from ancestors, and therefore possessing an intrinsic value, quite unsuspected by others, for the owner,) ransacked, tossed from hand to hand, and at last "knocked down" at a nominal price -- even this is a mournful exhibition.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

Receipts for peculiar flavors are handed down from father to son as most valuable heir-looms, and these receipts are in fact a valuable property in many instances, for so delicate is the nose of your snuff-taker that he can detect the slightest variation in the preparation of his favorite snuff.

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

Of whom else among our great list of names -- the heir-looms of our nation -- can we say that he has left us everything to admire, and nothing to forgive?

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 569, October 6, 1832 Various

Then came old-fashioned silver spoons and knives and tea-pots, heir-looms, they said, from the old country.

Idle Hour Stories Eugenia Dunlap Potts

The reader may think this a fanciful and exaggerated dress for the wife of a drover; but these costumes are heir-looms, and though they are often seen faded, torn, travel-stained, and grim, the materials are always as

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various