dowerless
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Fear was among them; fear handed down from generations of dowerless girls who accepted the first proposal lest they might die as old maids.
From The Disturbing Charm by Berta Ruck
My sister ought not to have come dowerless into a good husband’s house.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 by Various
She is dowerless and friendless, except her young brother and an old grandfather, who maybe sleeps in his grave by this time.
From The Settlers A Tale of Virginia by William Henry Giles Kingston
Reason, which when urged by desire becomes its obedient assistant, told him, moreover, that a young lady bearing the name of Sieninski was, although dowerless, a match of great moment.
From On the Field of Glory An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski by Henryk Sienkiewicz
If not, did the mother know that nothing would tempt Howard Jerrold into an alliance with a dowerless daughter?
From From the Ranks by Charles King
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