Looking for sentences and phrases with the word dowerless? Here are some examples.
Examples from Classical Literature
You are doing all you can to oppose me, and you have determined to marry the dowerless daughter of a poor soldier.
His father's objection to Miss Baker was solely because of her dowerless condition.
The Florentine nobleman who is disposed to marry a dowerless American is yet to be heard from.
The story in question is the famous one of the young man St. Nicholas and his gifts to the dowerless maidens.
There, aided by nuns, she cared for and educated two hundred and fifty pupils, dowerless daughters of impoverished nobles.
They took it for granted that he wished to marry her, dowerless as she was, and they kept out of his way.
She is dowerless and friendless, except her young brother and an old grandfather, who maybe sleeps in his grave by this time.
Dolokhov was a suitable and in some respects a brilliant match for the dowerless, orphan girl.
About forty years of age, a man of the purest morals, entirely given up to his art, he had married from inclination the dowerless daughter of a general.
