The city was at her
birthright fete in the persons of hundreds of her best citizens, men and women whose names and lives stand for the virtues that make for honourable civic pride.
They both belonged to the class which is conscious of having lost its
birthright in these great structures and is seeking to build another kind of lodging for its own notion of law and government.
He ate burnt flesh when he would have preferred it raw and unspoiled, and he brought down game with arrow or spear when he would far rather have leaped upon it from ambush and sunk his strong teeth in its jugular; but at last the call of the milk of the savage mother that had suckled him in infancy rose to an insistent demand--he craved the hot blood of a fresh kill and his muscles yearned to pit themselves against the savage jungle in the battle for existence that had been his sole
birthright for the first twenty years of his life.
Tarzan's conscience was troubling him, which accounted for the fact that he compared himself to a weak, old woman, for the ape-man, reared in savagery and inured to hardships and cruelty, disliked to admit any of the gentler traits that in reality were his
birthright.
Time and again he had wondered if he had acted wisely in renouncing his
birthright to a man to whom he owed nothing.
The villein took the cruel blow without wince or cry, as one to whom stripes are a
birthright and an inheritance.
The joy of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her
birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams.
Tarzan of the Apes heard him long before he came within sight, but the ape-man went on with his drinking until he had had his fill; then he arose, slowly, with the easy grace of a creature of the wilds and all the quiet dignity that was his
birthright.
She had failed to respond to this invitation merely because it was a little queer and imaginative--she, whose
birthright it was to nourish imagination
Yes," said Arthur--"the
birthright of British boys old and young, as habeas corpus and trial by jury are of British men.
Lord Dawlish had that sturdy reverence for his interior organism which is the
birthright of every Briton.
In common honesty and common honour I must have gone at once to the stranger whose
birthright had been usurped--I must have renounced the victory at the moment when it was mine by placing my discovery unreservedly in that stranger's hands--and I must have faced afresh all the difficulties which stood between me and the one object of my life, exactly as I was resolved in my heart of hearts to face them now!
