inheriting

In this he would be quite wrong, but quite intelligible and quite sincere; an English aristocrat of the nineteenth century inheriting from the English aristocrats of the eighteenth century; whose views were simply those of Voltaire.

The New Jerusalem 1905

Let us now imagine a child inheriting from the mother a sensitive, nervous organization, and from the father a predisposition of morbid action, with a mind as sensitive to external influence as a daguerreotype-plate, brought suddenly from the warmth of a too-indulgent household to the arctic regularity and frozen stillness of the Farnsworth mansion.

Oldtown Folks 1869

Well what would you call inheriting the mother of all messes?

Barbados Underground 2008

It's fun to note that people used to believe in inheriting acquired traits, aka Lamarckism (named for a French biologist who championed the idea: Link.

Boing Boing: July 17, 2005 - July 23, 2005 Archives 2005

The proper patrimony of the ancient Church was, perhaps, rather the endowments which had been gifted to it; yet Knox, who abhorred the idea of inheriting anything from that old Church, took a share of that money, even from the State, with reluctance.

John Knox A. Taylor Innes

Have you entertained the idea of inheriting a fortune?

The Sorcery Club Elliott O'Donnell 1918

Fortunately, a new C++0x feature called inheriting constructors lets you delegate that task to the compiler.

DevX: Latest Published Articles 2009

I recall inheriting a few Run DMC tapes from my dad -- when I was five, he gave me a couple of cassettes, and one of them's a Digital Underground thing ....

Pitchfork: Latest News 2009

For one thing, the idea of inheriting a family business is an American tradition older than the Constitution itself; the idea of inheriting the presidency would have made the Founding Fathers shit themselves.

How to Rig an Election Allen Raymond with Ian Spiegelman 2008

For one thing, the idea of inheriting a family business is an American tradition older than the Constitution itself; the idea of inheriting the presidency would have made the Founding Fathers shit themselves.

How to Rig an Election Allen Raymond with Ian Spiegelman 2008