dowerless
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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She had passed the station as he was driving away, and he had felt a pang he deadened with some anodyne of grim endurance, to see how youth could wilt into a dowerless middle age.
From Country Neighbors by Alice Brown
My father went straight from the University to Vienna, where he began his career in the diplomatic service, and where he soon afterwards married a dowerless English girl of good family.
From Phantom Fortune, a Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
It is only with very vigorous or very candid minds that the understanding exercises its just and boasted prerogative, and induces its votaries to relinquish a profitable delusion and embrace the dowerless truth.
From Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There by William Hazlitt
He knew the La Touche family well by repute; he liked this modest young wooer; and forty thousand pounds for his dowerless daughter was not to be lightly refused.
From Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel by May Agnes Fleming
Philip, Mademoiselle de Valecourt will not come to you as a dowerless bride, which indeed would be a shame for a daughter of so old and noble a family.
From Saint Bartholomew's Eve A Tale of the Huguenot WarS by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
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