| His father's objection to Miss Baker was solely because of her dowerless condition. |
| Dolokhov was a suitable and in some respects a brilliant match for the dowerless, orphan girl. |
| The story in question is the famous one of the young man St. Nicholas and his gifts to the dowerless maidens. |
| The Florentine nobleman who is disposed to marry a dowerless American is yet to be heard from. |
| She is dowerless and friendless, except her young brother and an old grandfather, who maybe sleeps in his grave by this time. |
| They took it for granted that he wished to marry her, dowerless as she was, and they kept out of his way. |
