| 单词 | dowerless |
| 例句 | Just as we never find low-born girls as nuns, so we never find them as schoolgirls and for the same reason; “dowerless maidens,” as Mr Leach says, “were not sought as nuns.” Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z It is, moreover, borne in upon me that the daughter of Rhuddlan will not come dowerless to the son of Dafydd. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z It is only with very vigorous or very candid minds that the understanding exercises its just and boasted prerogative, and induces its votaries to relinquish a profitable delusion and embrace the dowerless truth. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z There he may read of the poet's bare cupboard, and the unfurnished lodging, where he lived with his ugly and dowerless old wife, who brought him but fifty years with her soup. Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z Reason, which when urged by desire becomes its obedient assistant, told him, moreover, that a young lady bearing the name of Sieninski was, although dowerless, a match of great moment. On the Field of Glory An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski 2011-09-13T02:00:27.560Z Fear was among them; fear handed down from generations of dowerless girls who accepted the first proposal lest they might die as old maids. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z I praise her when she stays, but if she leave me, Fluttering her airy wings in hasty flight, I yield her what she gave, and wrapped in virtue, In dowerless Poverty find my delight. Memorial Day and Other Verse 2011-05-20T02:00:35.647Z One of these was the duty incumbent on a dowerless young lady to marry well. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 2011-04-26T02:00:29.063Z His father's objection to Miss Baker was solely because of her dowerless condition. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I 2011-04-15T02:00:13.527Z You forget that I am still an exile—she still dowerless. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z So she had won his heart when he met her in the country, the beauty of a small military station, a doctor's daughter, well born, but dowerless, bringing beauty alone as her marriage portion. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z If she were dowerless, I should never have worked myself up to this stage of appreciation; I should never have dressed up the Robinson menage to make it palatable. An Engagement of Convenience A Novel The Florentine nobleman who is disposed to marry a dowerless American is yet to be heard from. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes My sister ought not to have come dowerless into a good husband’s house. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 And his daughters were such august persons,—old and ugly, it is true, and almost dowerless in consequence of the nature of the family settlements and family expenditure. The Vicar of Bullhampton She had passed the station as he was driving away, and he had felt a pang he deadened with some anodyne of grim endurance, to see how youth could wilt into a dowerless middle age. Country Neighbors That rascal has beaten me and stolen my daughter, but he gets a dowerless lass. Marcia Schuyler She is dowerless and friendless, except her young brother and an old grandfather, who maybe sleeps in his grave by this time. The Settlers A Tale of Virginia Philip, Mademoiselle de Valecourt will not come to you as a dowerless bride, which indeed would be a shame for a daughter of so old and noble a family. Saint Bartholomew's Eve A Tale of the Huguenot WarS He knew the La Touche family well by repute; he liked this modest young wooer; and forty thousand pounds for his dowerless daughter was not to be lightly refused. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel However, she will not come to you a dowerless bride. The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars With me, I praise her; if her wings she lift To leave me, I resign her every gift, And, cloaked about in my own virtue's pride, Wed honest poverty, the dowerless bride. Horace and His Influence If not, did the mother know that nothing would tempt Howard Jerrold into an alliance with a dowerless daughter? From the Ranks There was no question of Eileen returning to the Convent as a pupil: her desire to take the veil failed at the thought that now she could only be a dowerless working-sister, not a teacher. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes So like an outcast, dowerless and pale, Thy daughter went; and in a foreign gale Spread her young banner, till its sway became A wonder to the nations. The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics Lady Grosville thought of her own three daughters, plain and almost dowerless; and of that conceited young man, the heir, whom she could hardly persuade her husband to invite, once a year, for appearance sake. The Marriage of William Ashe You are doing all you can to oppose me, and you have determined to marry the dowerless daughter of a poor soldier. In the Palace of the King A Love Story of Old Madrid Madame de la Tour had moments of uneasiness during her daughter's childhood; sometimes she used to say to me: "If I should die what would become of Virginia, dowerless as she is?" The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction Philippe renounced the brilliant career as an engineer already chalked out before him, and that his sister might not be dowerless, became a manufacturer. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Indeed, for my own part, I am inclined to believe that I should be prouder and happier as the husband of a dowerless wife, than as prince-consort to the heiress of the Haygarths. Birds of Prey In her heart she knew quite well that a dowerless girl had nothing to hope for in the world in which she lived. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House You are, he thinks, a beggared, dowerless girl. The Precipice My father went straight from the University to Vienna, where he began his career in the diplomatic service, and where he soon afterwards married a dowerless English girl of good family. Phantom Fortune, a Novel A dowerless damsel possessed of no influential relatives is not in a position to be exacting, and, whate'er befell, poor outlawed Stanislas Poniatowski could not have taken up arms in defence of his daughter. A Versailles Christmas-Tide If you were free to-day, to-morrow, yesterday, can even I believe that you would choose a dowerless girl; or, choosing her, do I not know that your repentance and regret would surely follow? Short Stories Old and New Of course the men of the distant gentry wanted no part of me, a dowerless widow who had shamed her family and married beneath her class. Highland Ballad I want you," he wrote; "dowered or dowerless, it makes little difference to me. The Leavenworth Case Perhaps, too, he might expect murmurs at his choice of a dowerless princess from his vassals of the Tirol. Two Penniless Princesses "But you shall not be dowerless, H�loise!" burst out Am�lie. The Golden Dog Dolokhov was a suitable and in some respects a brilliant match for the dowerless, orphan girl. War and Peace Sweetheart, if this won't find a husband for a dowerless maiden, I'm a donkey. Letters of Two Brides Thy dowerless daughter, king, thrown to my chance, Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France: Not all the dukes of waterish Burgundy Can buy this unpriz'd precious maid of me.— King Lear He is not likely to claim the hand of a dowerless maiden. The Black Dwarf But the King of France was wiser, and said, "Thy dowerless daughter, King, is Queen of us--of ours, and our fair France." Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare 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. Vendetta Why, the hot-blooded France, that dowerless took Our youngest born, I could as well be brought To knee his throne, and, squire-like, pension beg To keep base life afoot.—Return with her? 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