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  • When the two sisters married, on the same day, they received their portion from their brother, not as a thing rightfully belonging to them, but as a dowry for which they thanked him.   (source)
  • She had no dowry, no expectations, no way of being known, understood, loved, married by any rich and distinguished man; so she let herself be married to a little clerk of the Ministry of Public Instruction.   (source)
  • He was, moreover, not disinclined to marry, but only such a lady who could bring with her a dowry of two hundred thousand roubles.   (source)
  • Ours was a no-dowry, no-guests Registry Office wedding in a town a 250-rupee taxi ride south of Hasnapur.†   (source)
  • They were separated and made into rings and pendants for unmarried daughters' dowries.†   (source)
  • Kosher My parents' marriage was put together by a rov, a rabbi of a high order who goes to each of the parents and sees about the dowry and arranges the marriage contract properly according to Jewish law, which meant love had nothing to do with it.†   (source)
  • And he smiled, and said it did not appear to trouble the young men, as the girls saved up their wages for their dowries, and a dowry was always acceptable.†   (source)
  • She managed an immense dowry for her younger sister, and was married herself in another year.†   (source)
  • For the first time in his life, he realized that the worst abandonment of Tres Marias was not that of land and animals but of the people, who had lived unprotected ever since his father had gambled away his mother's dowry and inheritance.†   (source)
  • Thou will have no dowry from me, snake, nor your mother's inheritance.†   (source)
  • The Emperor's entire CHOAM Company holdings as dowry," he said.†   (source)
  • In India, a "bride burning"—to punish a woman for an inadequate dowry or to eliminate her so a man can remarry—takes place approximately once every two hours, but these rarely constitute news.†   (source)
  • Our family allowed some romance, paying adult brides' prices and providing dowries so that their sons and daughters could marry strangers.†   (source)
  • Why, she wanted to know, could I not return half of Antoinette's dowry and leave the island — 'leave the West Indies if you don't want her no more.'†   (source)
  • Certainly not by me, nor has John approached my father (my mother has informed me in the strictest of confidences) with any discussion of dowry.†   (source)
  • The maroon, mirrored quilt that Mortenson felt honored to sleep under had been the centerpiece of Rhokia's dowry.†   (source)
  • "On the subject of dowry?" the queen asked, lifting her eyebrow.†   (source)
  • No girls to need dowry.†   (source)
  • He writes that Lyonel Corbray seems well pleased with his bride, and even more so with her dowry.†   (source)
  • And we both pray and charge you to come hither as speedily as you may that we may be delighted with your face and speech; and also that you may bring with you the dowry of my wife, which, by reason of my great charges and expenses, I require without delay.†   (source)
  • She does business with men, establishing bride prices, haggling over dowries, and serving as a go-between.†   (source)
  • Our relatives, I know, murmured that the match was below me; my mother herself was not happy, but I was without beauty and without dowry and it was the best she could do.†   (source)
  • At Duke, Jack had wanted to become a sculptor, and now after postwar study at the Art Students' League, he had removed himself to the serene little hills behind Nyack to fashion huge objects in cast iron and sheet metal—aided (he allowed to me without reticence) by what might be construed as a fine dowry, since his bride was the daughter of one of the biggest cotton-mill owners in South Carolina.†   (source)
  • Except for white frown marks, Aldo's forehead was all bright copper, and so were his nose and chin, his chest, his folded arms-as if he were dressed up in somebody's kitchen dowry over his well-known costume of yellow T-shirt and old army pants.†   (source)
  • The fatal dowry of genius was on that house.†   (source)
  • This business needs to be sold for Mattie's dowry, and Eliza here has to find a new job.   (source)
  • But Mercy had never given a thought to a dowry.   (source)
  • The dowry was enough, more than enough, said my father.   (source)
  • Part of the dowry was the Port of Bombay in India….'   (source)
  • Why did she need a dowry, she argued practically, when she was really not leaving home at all?   (source)
  • We children would help Song Po-po polish the mahogany table and Grandma's four prized red-and-gold dowry trunks until we could see our reflections in the wood and leather.   (source)
  • My family's old furniture had been shined up into an impressive dowry and placed in the front parlor.   (source)
    dowry = property given by a woman's family to the husband at marriage
  • Her father was the owner of a supermarket, and the girl's dowry consisted of a house and unlimited free groceries.   (source)
    dowry = money or property given by a woman's family to the husband at marriage
  • All the heavy furniture and bedding had to be left behind, and these were promised to the Huangs as my dowry.   (source)
    dowry = property given by a woman's family to the husband at marriage
  • So when my brother gave her a sour look, Auntie said our mother was so thoughtless she had fled north in a big hurry, without taking the dowry furniture from her marriage to my father, without bringing her ten pairs of silver chopsticks, without paying respect to my father's grave and those of our ancestors.   (source)
  • I was induced to marry her about three years ago, although she had but very little dowry, because Monsieur Laporte, the queen's cloak bearer, is her godfather, and befriends her.   (source)
    dowry = money or property given by a woman's family to the husband at marriage
  • The teacher's husband's sisters waiting for their dowries.†   (source)
  • Four dowries is too much for a man to bear.†   (source)
  • A daughter had to be married off before she could enter heaven, and dowries beggared families for generations.†   (source)
  • He was to manage the plantation as I bad done for my mother and sister; he was to negotiate marriages, to put together dowries when the entire fortune of the place rode precariously on the next year's sugar crop; he was to bargain, fight, and keep at a distance the entire material world for the world of Freniere.†   (source)
  • She said it was the custom for young girls in this country to hire themselves out, in order to earn the money for their dowries; and then they would marry, and if their husbands prospered they would soon be hiring their own servants in their turn, at the very least a maid-of-all-work; and that one day I would be the mistress of a tidy farmhouse, and independent, and I would look back on my trials and tribulations at the hands of Mrs. Honey as a fine joke.†   (source)
  • I have heard that some girls have had to give up their betrothals because their families can no longer provide dowries.†   (source)
  • They were to be used in preparing my dowry, just as Beautiful Moon and Snow Flower had to use their gifts to build their dowries.†   (source)
  • We worked on our dowries in earnest.†   (source)
  • We wanted to see each other, but we didn't have the excuse of visiting to work on our dowries, and the only trips we were allowed to take were to our husbands' homes for conjugal visits.†   (source)
  • Obviously they were apprehensive about four marriages in one household and whether Baba would come through with the promised bride-price for Elder Brother's wife, adequate dowries for the three girls, and, most important, the matchmaking fees.†   (source)
  • Months ago, each of our future in-laws had Delivered the Dates for our weddings, along with the first installments of our official brideprices—more pork and candy, as well as empty wooden boxes to fill with all the things we would make for our dowries.†   (source)
  • We made a pretty picture sitting there on those quilts with our legs tucked under us just so: three young maidens, all betrothed to good families, cheerfully working on our dowries, showing our good manners to those who visited.†   (source)
  • As to the matter of a dowry, the coffin-maker was willing to be more than generous.†   (source)
  • Since her father did not have enough money to raise a suitable dowry, no proposals came Ammu's way.†   (source)
  • I was a sister without dowry, but I didn't have to be a sister without prospects.†   (source)
  • Her father gave away a zippy red Maruti and a refrigerator in the dowry.†   (source)
  • Katrina lost nearly everything on my account-her home, her father, and her dowry.†   (source)
  • My lord of Frey offered me my bride's weight in silver for a dowry, so I chose accordingly.†   (source)
  • Was it you who gave Katrina her dress and her dowry?†   (source)
  • Your property in Bonang is the dowry that will make this union possible.†   (source)
  • I do not know whether it was me she found unsuitable, or just my dowry.†   (source)
  • If I sell it for dowry, I'll have nothing.†   (source)
  • "They will expect a large dowry," I said regretfully.†   (source)
  • If they return we shall have a fine dowry for our daughter, and that is indeed a good thing.†   (source)
  • "A dowry of one hundred rupees," I said.†   (source)
  • It will make up for a small dowry-in this case.†   (source)
  • For who knows what dowry there will be for you when you are ready!†   (source)
  • The dowry was displayed and everyone commented on the quality of Elder Sister's handiwork.†   (source)
  • My hands traveled over other items in her dowry.†   (source)
  • When we got upstairs, she said, "Once you did me a great kindness by helping me with my dowry.†   (source)
  • Even Elder Sister, so serious with all her dowry work, tittered into her sleeve.†   (source)
  • My brothers helped load my dowry into waiting palanquins.†   (source)
  • My mother recut her dowry clothes to make my outfits when I visited you.†   (source)
  • I hope you will show my daughter compassion for the poverty of her dowry.†   (source)
  • Though she was virtuous and hardworking, her brothers would not offer a dowry.†   (source)
  • In one of the carts was the dowry, the jar of opium and the jar of dragon bones, the last of his supply.†   (source)
  • Blanca's dowry, her monthly income, and the prospect of inheriting a considerable fortune eventually brought him around.†   (source)
  • He left behind no insurance policy, no dowry, no land, no money for his pregnant wife and young children, but he helped establish the groundwork for Ma's raising twelve children which lasted thirty years-kids not allowed out after five o'clock; stay in school, don't ever follow the crowd, and follow Jesus-and as luck, or Jesus, would have it, my stepfather helped Mommy enforce those same rules when he married her.†   (source)
  • Don't forget that you intend to marry a woman who has lost both her dowry and her mother's inheritance.†   (source)
  • Since the girl was to be a second wife and not a first, couldn't her dowry be a jar of opium and a jar of dragon bones?†   (source)
  • In exchange for a surname for his grandchild, Trueba gave Jean de Satigny a rich dowry and the promise that he would eventually receive an inheritance.†   (source)
  • And he smiled, and said it did not appear to trouble the young men, as the girls saved up their wages for their dowries, and a dowry was always acceptable.†   (source)
  • Trueba had simply been a regrettable accident in the life of Dona Ester, who was destined to marry someone of her own class, but she had fallen hopelessly in love with that good-for-nothing immigrant, a first-generation settler who within a few short years had squandered first her dowry and then her inheritance.†   (source)
  • They were labeled with edifying placards that said Traditional Kerala Umbrella and Traditional Bridal Dowry-box.†   (source)
  • They were my dowry.†   (source)
  • Without anybody who would pay her a dowry and therefore without an obligatory husband looming on her horizon.†   (source)
  • By the time my turn to marry came around, there would be no dowry money left to gift me the groom I deserved.†   (source)
  • In the case of a deceased married woman, for instance, is her dowry jewelry properly returned to her parents, the dowry givers, or is it the property of her husband or, in the case of multiple death, of the husband's parents?†   (source)
  • A wooden dowry box.†   (source)
  • My lord grandfather offered Roose his bride's weight in silver as a dowry, though, so my lord of Bolton picked me.†   (source)
  • In the Ethiopian countryside, if a young man has an eye on a girl but doesn't have a bride price (the equivalent of a dowry, but paid by the man), or if he doubts that the girl's family will accept him, then he and several friends kidnap the girl, and he rapes her.†   (source)
  • The dowry?†   (source)
  • Then: "It would indeed be an honor to have a Dragon Rider marry you, but it would be a sorry day if Katrina had to accept your hand without a proper dowry.†   (source)
  • And she brings a dowry.†   (source)
  • With a dowry it was perhaps possible she might marry again; without it no man would look at her, no longer a virgin and reputedly barren.†   (source)
  • Padmini next, and she too made a good match and was married fittingly, taking jewels and dowry with her, but when it came to Thangam, only relations from our own village came to the wedding and not from the surrounding districts as they had done before, and the only jewel she had was a diamond nose-screw.†   (source)
  • Nathan at first paid scant attention to her: he had wanted a son to continue his line and walk beside him on the land, not a puling infant who would take with her a dowry and leave nothing but a memory behind; but soon she stopped being a puling infant, and when at the age of ten months she called him "Apa," which means father, he began to take a lively interest in her.†   (source)
  • Snow Flower took me back upstairs to the women's chamber, where she made a bed with some of her clean, though frayed, dowry quilts.†   (source)
  • They were to be used in preparing my dowry, just as Beautiful Moon and Snow Flower had to use their gifts to build their dowries.†   (source)
  • During those last four weeks as I finished my dowry, she helped me in many ways and we became even closer.†   (source)
  • Just as she helped me step into her dowry pants, we heard a pony's hooves and the creaking wheels of a cart coming near.†   (source)
  • Since the moneys made from the salt business would provide her with a generous dowry, she would marry well.†   (source)
  • It might also lower any hidden costs they would have to pay the matchmaker and lessen what they would have to provide for my dowry.†   (source)
  • The matchmaker's announcement, although a good omen for me, meant that my father would have to work very hard to build a dowry appropriate for a higher marriage.†   (source)
  • As I thought this, she brought out an outfit almost identical to hers—almost, because I remembered when she had pieced it together from one of her mother's dowry treasures.†   (source)
  • Those embroidered shoes were only three and a half centimeters long and were made from a special piece of red silk that my mother had saved from her dowry.†   (source)
  • So, as a girl, I prepared my earth—getting a piece of paper from Baba or asking Elder Sister for a tiny scrap of her dowry cloth—on which to plant.†   (source)
  • It was late fall, the season when footbinding begins, so many times we encountered young girls whose bones had recently broken and who were now left behind, as had food, extra clothes, water, traveling altars, dowry gifts, and family treasures.†   (source)
  • This woman who was your neighbor took with her a dowry that was made from her mother's dowry, so that when that poor woman went out onto the street she had no quilts or clothes to keep her warm," I proclaimed.†   (source)
  • Snow Flower's actual bride-price gifts were mini-mal, but she'd taken pieces from her own clothes to create a unique dowry "You will make a remarkable wife," I said, truly awed by what she had accomplished.†   (source)
  • They had taken cloth that had once been sent from Snow Flower's family to Snow Flower's mother as a bride-price gift, been shaped into the dowry of a fine maiden, been reshaped again into clothes for a beautiful daughter, and now restructured another time to announce the qualities of a young woman marrying into the house of a polluted butcher.†   (source)
  • People unloaded my dowry.†   (source)
  • Photography, reproduced by the half-tone process, has made me familiar with the appearance of the daughters of the English peerage; and I can honestly say that I would have sold the lot, faces, dowries, clothes, titles, and all, for a smile from this woman.†   (source)
  • Well, and who will pay for the dowry and for the wedding and for the middleman's fees?†   (source)
  • Let the dowry be good but not too great if the girl is suitable and if it can be arranged.†   (source)
  • And the dowry is good for these times, and he has land.†   (source)
  • Probably the women had already cast about among the families of the men who might now be called his friends, for that prospective bride whose dowry might complete the shape and substance of that respectability Miss Coldfield anyway believed to be his aim.†   (source)
  • She's rich; she has a dowry.†   (source)
  • His two hulking sisters in their Sunday dresses and his mother and her sister in calico and sunbonnets were already in it, sitting on and among the sorry residue of the dozen and more movings which even the boy could remember the battered stove, the broken beds and chairs, the clock inlaid with mother-of-pearl, which would not run, stopped at some fourteen minutes past two o'clock of a dead and forgotten day and time, which had been his mother's dowry.†   (source)
  • For two years it had watched him as with that grim and unflagging fury he had erected that shell of a house and laid out his fields, then for three years he had remained completely static, as if he were run by electricity and someone had come along and removed, dismantled the wiring or the dynamo, while the women of the county gradually convinced it that he was merely waiting to find a wife with a dowry to finish it with.†   (source)
  • hid horns and tail beneath human raiment and a beaver hat and chose (bought her, outswapped his father-in-law, wasn't it?) a wife after three years to scrutinise weigh and compare, not from one of the local ducal houses but from the lesser baronage whose principality was so far decayed that there would be no risk of his wife bringing him for dowry delusions of grandeur before he should be equipped for it yet not so far decayed but that she might keep them both from getting lost among the new knives and forks and spoons that he had bought—a wife who not only would consolidate the hiding but could would and did breed him two children to fend and shield both in themselves and in the progen†   (source)
  • "Hold the silver as dowry for me, my master," she said, "and if it is not a trouble to you, wed me to a farmer or to a good poor man.†   (source)
  • "Then the third daughter is to be married in the spring," continued O-lan, "and her dowry is a prince's ransom and enough to buy an official seat in a big city.†   (source)
  • In the near days after this he sent his second son away into the town and he signed the papers for the second girl's betrothal and the dowry was decided upon and the gifts of clothing and jewelry for her marriage day were fixed.†   (source)
  • Then the young man answered as smoothly and steadily as if he had the thing planned before, "I desire a maid from a village, of good landed family and without poor relatives, and one who will bring a good dowry with her, neither plain nor fair to look upon, and a good cook, so that even though there are servants in the kitchen she may watch them.†   (source)
  • If he desired to marry her, all was explained; she would bring him a larger dowry.†   (source)
  • He leaves Tavy a dowry for his sister and five thousand for himself.†   (source)
  • She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?†   (source)
  • Lebedeff always keeps them locked up in his china-cupboard; they were part of his wife's dowry.†   (source)
  • "Oh," said Newman, "her talent is in itself a dowry."†   (source)
  • Beauty should be the dowry of every man and woman, as invariably as sensation; but it is rare.†   (source)
  • He will take you with your dowry and take Mademoiselle Bourienne into the bargain.†   (source)
  • To attach himself to a good family and obtain a dowry was an alluring prospect.†   (source)
  • do not complain; you now have the dowry of the elect.†   (source)
  • Let your daughter paint half a dozen pictures for me, and she shall have her dowry.†   (source)
  • Shall you be able to pay M. Cavalcanti the five hundred thousand francs you promise for my dowry?†   (source)
  • I referred to her being rich and having a dowry while I was only a stuck-up beggar!†   (source)
  • Ever since Valentine's dowry had been mentioned, Morrel had been silent and sad.†   (source)
  • The two elder sisters had agreed that all was to be sacrificed by them, if need be, for Aglaya's sake; her dowry was to be colossal and unprecedented.†   (source)
  • By paying a small sum every week into a society, he ensured for both his daughters a dowry of one hundred pounds each when they came to the age of twenty-four.†   (source)
  • She was quite a poor woman—the house had been all her dowry, and the house would come to Charles in time.†   (source)
  • Exhausted by the importunity of their son and touched by the dowry which Fraulein Hedwig's father offered, the lieutenant's parents had consented to pass through Heidelberg to make the young woman's acquaintance.†   (source)
  • It was apparent, rather, that his wife was the guilty party—a small woman with a decidedly consumptive look about her and a conscience evidently weighed down by the dowry she had brought into the marriage.†   (source)
  • Miss Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the future.†   (source)
  • A fair dowry.†   (source)
  • I may add that when your mother was about ten years old, Pavlicheff took her under his care, gave her a good education, and later, a considerable dowry.†   (source)
  • After his wedding your father gave up his occupation as land-surveyor, and with his wife's dowry of fifteen thousand roubles went in for commercial speculations.†   (source)
  • The general and his wife were aware of this agreement, and, therefore, when Totski suggested himself for one of the sisters, the parents made no doubt that one of the two elder girls would probably accept the offer, since Totski would certainly make no difficulty as to dowry.†   (source)
  • That lost parchment once restored, the beautiful Alice Pyncheon, with the rich dowry which he could then bestow, might wed an English duke or a German reigning-prince, instead of some New England clergyman or lawyer!†   (source)
  • He felt it his duty to remark (he was sure a gentleman of Mr Sparkler's fine sense would interpret him with all delicacy), that he could not consider this proposal definitely determined on, until he should have had the privilege of holding some correspondence with Mr Merdle; and of ascertaining it to be so far accordant with the views of that eminent gentleman as that his (Mr Dorrit's) daughter would be received on that footing which her station in life and her dowry and expectations warranted him in requiring that she should maintain in what he trusted he might be allowed, without the appearance of being mercenary, to call the Eye of the Great World.†   (source)
  • Looking at the mother, you might hope that the daughter would become like her, which is a prospective advantage equal to a dowry—the mother too often standing behind the daughter like a malignant prophecy—"Such as I am, she will shortly be."†   (source)
  • She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.†   (source)
  • He had married at the age of twenty-seven, for love, a very charming girl, Miss Catherine Harrington, of New York, who, in addition to her charms, had brought him a solid dowry.†   (source)
  • The dowry of his wife amounted to fifty thousand crowns, and he had, besides, the prospect of seeing her fortune increased to half a million at her father's death.†   (source)
  • He has grown perfectly rigid with stupidity and dignity, but he too is married, and received a respectable dowry with his bride, the daughter of a market-gardener of the town, who had refused two excellent suitors, only because they had no watch; while Piotr had not only a watch—he had a pair of kid shoes.†   (source)
  • For instance, at his second visit, after he had received Dounia's consent, in the course of conversation, he declared that before making Dounia's acquaintance, he had made up his mind to marry a girl of good reputation, without dowry and, above all, one who had experienced poverty, because, as he explained, a man ought not to be indebted to his wife, but that it is better for a wife to look upon her husband as her benefactor.†   (source)
  • Fleur-de-Lys was his last passion but one, a pretty girl, a charming dowry; accordingly, one fine morning, quite cured, and assuming that, after the lapse of two months, the Bohemian affair must be completely finished and forgotten, the amorous cavalier arrived on a prancing horse at the door of the Gondelaurier mansion.†   (source)
  • He had spent so much for repairs at Tostes, for madame's toilette, and for the moving, that the whole dowry, over three thousand crowns, had slipped away in two years.†   (source)
  • The Count was a member of an ancient Tuscan family, but of such small estate that he had been glad to accept Amy Osmond, in spite of the questionable beauty which had yet not hampered her career, with the modest dowry her mother was able to offer—a sum about equivalent to that which had already formed her brother's share of their patrimony.†   (source)
  • She had gone to Ergushovo, the estate that had been her dowry, and the one where in spring the forest had been sold.†   (source)
  • We ran out just as we were....This is what we have brought away....The icons, and my dowry bed, all the rest is lost.†   (source)
  • He certainly thought him a little meagre, and not quite the son-in-law he would have liked, but he was said to be well brought-up, economical, very learned, and no doubt would not make too many difficulties about the dowry.†   (source)
  • He was too proud to act as if he presupposed that Mr. Vincy would advance money to provide furniture-; and though, since it would not be necessary to pay for everything at once, some bills would be left standing over, he did not waste time in conjecturing how much his father-in-law would give in the form of dowry, to make payment easy.†   (source)
  • Having no fortune she can't hope to marry as they marry here; so that Isabel will have to furnish her either with a maintenance or with a dowry.†   (source)
  • No dowry?†   (source)
  • Half a dozen pictures—her dowry!†   (source)
  • His father, Monsieur Charles Denis Bartolome Bovary, retired assistant-surgeon-major, compromised about 1812 in certain conscription scandals, and forced at this time to leave the service, had taken advantage of his fine figure to get hold of a dowry of sixty thousand francs that offered in the person of a hosier's daughter who had fallen in love with his good looks.†   (source)
  • He'll carry off Katerina Ivanovna, for whom he is languishing, and pocket her dowry of sixty thousand.†   (source)
  • He did not know at all how much he had, what his debts amounted to, or what dowry he could give Vera.†   (source)
  • "I," said Danglars, "have always intended giving my daughter 500,000 francs as her dowry; she is, besides, my sole heiress."†   (source)
  • As he had received no dowry with his wife, and had, so to speak, taken her "from the halter," he did not stand on ceremony with her.†   (source)
  • Berg had already been engaged a month, and only a week remained before the wedding, but the count had not yet decided in his own mind the question of the dowry, nor spoken to his wife about it.†   (source)
  • Did you know, Ilusha, he is just married, got a dowry of a thousand roubles, and his bride's a regular fright of the first rank and the last degree.†   (source)
  • "I accept it," said she; "he has a right to pay the dowry, which I shall take with me to some convent!"†   (source)
  • Anna Mikhaylovna, who often visited the Karagins, while playing cards with the mother made careful inquiries as to Julie's dowry (she was to have two estates in Penza and the Nizhegorod forests).†   (source)
  • At one end was the receipted bill for the 287,000 francs, and at the other was a diamond as large as a hazel-nut, with these words on a small slip of parchment:—Julie's Dowry.†   (source)
  • They were of agreeable appearance and lively character, and though every one knew they would have no dowry, they attracted all the young men of fashion to their grandfather's house.†   (source)
  • But Berg, smiling pleasantly, explained that if he did not know for certain how much Vera would have and did not receive at least part of the dowry in advance, he would have to break matters off.†   (source)
  • The little village and the rather fine town house which formed part of her dowry he did his utmost for a long time to transfer to his name, by means of some deed of conveyance.†   (source)
  • This letter" (as he spoke, Maximilian drew a letter from the purse and gave it to the count)—"this letter was written by him the day that my father had taken a desperate resolution, and this diamond was given by the generous unknown to my sister as her dowry."†   (source)
  • A few days before the wedding Berg entered the count's study early one morning and, with a pleasant smile, respectfully asked his future father-in-law to let him know what Vera's dowry would be.†   (source)
  • When his daughters were born he had assigned to each of them, for her dowry, an estate with three hundred serfs; but one of these estates had already been sold, and the other was mortgaged and the interest so much in arrears that it would have to be sold, so that it was impossible to give it to Vera.†   (source)
  • "Sir," said the count, "the world, unjust as it is, will be pleased with your resolution; your friends will be proud of you, and M. d'Epinay, even if he took Mademoiselle de Villefort without any dowry, which he will not do, would be delighted with the idea of entering a family which could make such sacrifices in order to keep a promise and fulfil a duty."†   (source)
  • But he had not reckoned on a dowry; what allured him was the remarkable beauty of the innocent girl, above all her innocent appearance, which had a peculiar attraction for a vicious profligate, who had hitherto admired only the coarser types of feminine beauty.†   (source)
  • Although the family accepted the event pretty quickly and apportioned the runaway bride her dowry, the husband and wife began to lead a most disorderly life, and there were everlasting scenes between them.†   (source)
  • I had two hundred thousand francs placed in the hands of Morrel & Son; these two hundred thousand francs were the dowry of my daughter, who was to be married in a fortnight, and these two hundred thousand francs were payable, half on the 15th of this month, and the other half on the 15th of next month.†   (source)
  • That's a dowry for you.†   (source)
  • But I shall add a dowry such as no man has given to his daughter.†   (source)
  • He'll add a dowry such as no man has given to his daughter.†   (source)
  • If they are alive amid the Akhaian host, I'll ransom them with bronze and gold: both I have, piled at home, rich treasures that old Altes, the renowned, gave for his daughter's dowry.†   (source)
  • Then tell me, if I get your daughter's love,
    What dowry shall I have with her to wife?   (source)
    dowry = money or property given by a woman's family to the husband at marriage (a cultural custom in that time and place)
  • And ask no other dowry with her but such another jest.†   (source)
  • Well, that is the dowry of his wife; 'tis none of his own getting.†   (source)
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