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How to use birthright in a sentence

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They have sold their golden birthright of American liberty for a mess of coward's pottage.
When we suffer reverses, difficulties, disease or tragedy, we may feel deep down that our birthright as believers has been taken from us.
To them it's entirely feasible that being a Yooper is less of a birthright and more of a way of life.
Head and shoulders above the other players stood Julius Caesar, a patrician who regarded glory as his birthright.
We are all born to this Abba who takes us in regardless of our birthright, race, gender, language, or social status.
They see their fight as being a battle to secure a birthright, they are adamant that they will not be denied.
Today, good design is the birthright of every citizen, from suburban dads to stereotyped gay men on great TV shows.
I was a child of the suburbs, I felt cheated and robbed of my birthright of ease and pleasure.
Once mollified, they are possessed once again of that calm which is their birthright, their black gaze deep.
A despiser of Western religions, he was an ardent polygamist, convinced that promiscuity was man's natural birthright.
For the one got possession of the birthright, and the other transferred the wealth of the Egyptians to the host of the Israelites.
A generally accepted tenet of the American dream is that a high-quality education is a birthright.
For example, Talmudic law distinguishes individuals by both birthright and ritual purity.
Rather, in this character test, Esau has denigrated the birthright and has proven himself unworthy of its privileges and obligations.
He reminds the king that he reversed the natural order of birthright when he gave his daughters the crown.
Given his feats, birthright, and fortunes, he concludes that he does, in fact, deserve Portia.
Titled Esau studies, the group chose that name explicitly to reflect the younger brother's undercutting of the older brother's birthright.
If you learn too many other things, then this natural birthright will become almost impossible to remember and relearn.
I am a woman, possessing the softness and warmth that is my birthright, and I love what I am.
Masterhood, the result of the engaging in the practices that Masters teach, is the birthright of all.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Was she without that delicate sensitiveness which is the birthright of all nice women?
It is our birthright as citizens of this great Republic, and we'll meet this challenge.
In Bach the love of exercising his skill as an executant was a part of his very birthright as a musician.
It was you who grew angry with my father because he got your birthright for a mess of potage.
The child that hasn't a flowerbed or a garden of its ownest own is being cheated out of its birthright.
Lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau who for one mess sold his first birthright.
She hasn't a penny, and goes about tattered, a draggle-tail, and sells her birthright for a handful of cold potatoes.
All the finer qualities of uncorrupted humanity seem to be his by birthright.
She did not recognize that such trust was necessary to the unfoldment of character, nor even that it was her birthright.
She had never forgiven her husband for trying to denude Harry of his birthright.
Mastery of his mother tongue is the birthright of every child.
I wish Margaret Louise had not sold her birthright for a mess of pottage.
He was of the make that wears unbending hope as its birthright.
They stand for that which deprives these children of their birthright.
They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage.
Town hall numpties are selling the people's birthright for a mess of pottage.
He had reckoned from childhood on outlawry as his peculiar birthright.
Esau, an ancient who sold his birthright for a mess of breakfast food.
You have as good as sold your birthright, as Esau did, in that speech.
Evidently, I thought, this tendency had increased till Industry had gradually lost its birthright in the sky.
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