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There was no question of Eileen returning to the Convent as a pupil: her desire to take the veil failed at the thought that now she could only be a dowerless working-sister, not a teacher.

From The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes by Zangwill, Israel

The Florentine nobleman who is disposed to marry a dowerless American is yet to be heard from.

From A Transient Guest and Other Episodes by Saltus, Edgar

So like an outcast, dowerless and pale, Thy daughter went; and in a foreign gale Spread her young banner, till its sway became A wonder to the nations.

From The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics by Knowles, Frederic Lawrence

One sister, Tita, a dowerless widow, is mentioned in the earliest denunzia, living with her mother and Donatello, her son Giuliano having been born in 1409.

From Donatello, by Lord Balcarres by Crawford, David Lindsay, Earl of

One of these was the duty incumbent on a dowerless young lady to marry well.

From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 by Trollope, Frances Eleanor