Bride's gift

Usage examples of dowry.

THE DOWRY The marriage of Maitre Simon Lebrument with Mademoiselle Jeanne Cordier was a surprise to no one.

He thought it unnecessary to enlarge on the many arguments his mother had presented to him on the advantages of such a connection: that Lady Cytherea was of good family, well-connected, fashionable and had by common report an excellent dowry, and that now he was an earl, he owed it to the family to make a suitable match.

Out of Cameliard The daughter of Leodegrance shall bring A dowry that will disenthrall the State, Release it from dependence on the king, And guard it with invincible defence.

Did Figaro imagine it was because of his own pretty face that the Count had promised her so handsome a dowry?

Namely, that I surrender to him all the dowry intended for Omer of Kopt who is to marry my daughter.

From that moment all Limoges rang with this inexplicable affair, --inexplicable because no one knew the secret of it, namely, the immensity of the dowry.

Madame Millefleur decided this was not the ideal time to ask Woodbridge for the return of her dowry, paltry though it was, and played least in sight.

It is a powerful combination, becoming more so over time as the quality of Earthly civilisation slowly improved and as the new queens brought dowries of wider knowledge.

I calculated that as two hundred piastres were assigned to each as a dowry in case of marriage, the founder must have calculated on two marriages a year at least, and it seemed probable that these sums were made away with by some scoundrel.

Earl of Landale had been w attracted by the generous dowry Amelia had brot him--that his love for her had been only luke warm.

A quarter of this sum belongs to me, and my mother has promised my sister and myself to share her dowry between us.

Part of the dowry of Catherine of Braganza, Portuguese queen of a merry monarch.

He was prepared to give his daughter a fine dowry in exchange for the happiness of knowing that she was soon to be a countess and the privileges she would obtain by this exalted position, not to mention the advantage he himself would gain by pleasing his sovereign with this match which the King appeared to favour: Cressida had hardly been consulted.

I gave him courage for his task by informing him that the girl had a dowry of four thousand ducats, but I added that his choice was to be made within a fortnight.

As for Count Algarotti, he was ready to be answerable for his god-son, that is to guarantee four thousand ducats to the wife, provided her dowry was worth that amount.