Example Sentences
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To the astonishment, and perhaps to the envy, of the fashionable world, those two unportioned young women made the most splendid matches of the season.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various
Dukes could never want wives, but unportioned captains in the guards might.
From Precaution by Cooper, James Fenimore
The inventor of collodion has died, leaving his invention unpatented, to enrich thousands, and his family unportioned to the battle of life.
He had been dead about two years, and his son found himself saddled with the support of an unjointured mother and unportioned sisters.
From Precaution by Cooper, James Fenimore
The woman whom he had selected was an unportioned orphan, and was recommended merely by her moral qualities.
From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden
