Example Sentences

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I trust that you have now seen the impropriety of thinking of that portionless girl as your wife.

From Shifting Winds A Tough Yarn by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Whereas from henceforth he will have to endure battles and conflicts, and his knights will perish, and wives will be widowed, and maidens will be left portionless, and all this is because of thee.”

From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)

I had no idea you were so—so—in fact, I believed you almost portionless.

From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)

Let the case be reversed, and a man of fortune permit himself the caprice of marrying a portionless girl, and society cries out in horror against the mésalliance.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 by Various

You know that we parted only because I had too little fortune to marry a portionless maiden, and my mother would not hear of my marrying a governess.

From The Argonauts by Curtin, Jeremiah