What is "marriageable"

Usage examples of "marriageable".

A worthy woman gave us hospitality for a fortnight, and has presented my niece in several houses where she made the acquaintance of marriageable young men, but those who pleased her would not hear of marriage, and those who would have been glad to marry her did not take her fancy.

Though the girl was only fourteen, she had all the indications of the marriageable age, and yet none of the Provencal amateurs had succeeded in making her see daylight.

One of the greatest problems confronting eugenics is that of giving young people of marriageable age a greater range of choice.

While waiting for the appearance of a suitor who is above the average in both intelligence and wealth, they pass the marriageable age.

Both beddable, Angelique much more so, both eligible, and marriageable, Maureen much more so.

She introduced me to her husband and her four daughters, charming girls of a marriageable age.

And everyone knew that before a girl was of marriageable age she had to leave the schoolroom and be launched onto society during the Season and attend plenty of balls and routs and meet many eligible gentlemen, one of whom she would fall in love with, and hopefully he would be the one who asked her brother for her hand in the usual manner.

Simonides, King of Pentapolis, another monarch with another daughter of marriageable age, the contrast could not be more instructive.

Yet while everyone waited for the children to grow to marriageable age, Riobaro did use his art and his arts as necessary to cement ducal power in the provinces.

Ghillas, the only royal female of marriageable age and a dizzying dower prize.

One did not choose a young roseBeatriz could scarcely be more than eighteenin the first flush of youth and of obvious value to her parents as a marriageable daughter who would likely bear many children.

She sounded remarkably hard-hearted for a girl barely of marriageable age.

A moment later, Zorzi included all marriageable young women in one sweeping condemnation: they were all hard-hearted, mercenary, vain, deceitful--anything that suggested itself to his headlong resentment.

Mademoiselle Steno warns her that she is compromised, more than a marriageable young girl should be, in playing, with regard to M.

If she suspected how little contact he wanted with marriageable young ladies, she might have realized that a better strategy for protecting the school would be to send the chits charging at him.