dowery
- a variation of dowry.
Example Sentences
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When virginity Seeks, all coyful, Man's affinity; Fate all flowery, Bright and bowery, Is her dowery!
From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir
On the decease of Arthur, the king, with the view of retaining the opulent Spanish dowery in his family, desired to marry the widow of Arthur to his next son.
From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by Alberger, John
Farewell, Kathi; now that you have a dowery, you will speedily find a husband.
From Joseph II. and His Court by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
And jest at this time the dowery in Loontown fell onto Elnathan, so that they all come East.
From Samantha at the World's Fair by Grimm, Baron C. de
I consented that Elizabeth should return, and gave her husband five thousand pounds as her dowery, with a promise of more, if they should conduct themselves to my satisfaction.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various
