General Smith faid that the widow of the Black Prince had a dower from the Dutchy of Cornwall. From Wordnik.com. [The Parliamentary Register: Or an Impartial Report of the Debates that Have Occured in the Two ...] Reference
When Nur al-Din heard such demand he said, What manner of dower is this thou wouldst impose upon my son?. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
It happened that Jofrid had expended much hard work in procuring a kind of dower for herself. From Wordnik.com. [Invisible Links] Reference
Used to be a kind of dower house once upon a time, they say. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Jervaise Comedy] Reference
As for the dower, that is thine affair. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III] Reference
You wished to bring laurels to Micheline as a dower. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Rich robes and gifts -- the Blackfoot maiden's dower. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Legends of Minnesota] Reference
To spend their dower: recrowned one hour, is this eternity?. From Wordnik.com. [2 Poems] Reference
And I ain't even got dower right in it, as I'd oughter have. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference
Naming the dower of the bride in flocks of sheep and in cattle. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
Creditors, also, seize the property subject to such dower rights. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
They add a true-lover's knot to their arms to indicate dower status. From Wordnik.com. [Concordance A Terran Empire concordance] Reference
Maine were confiscated, except for the widow's dower enjoyed by Lady. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees] Reference
I give with her dower of eleven thousand pieces of gold to the son of. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Caliph] Reference
This generous disposition of yours I now regard as acme of human dower. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
This was the precious dower she would bring to her husband in marriage. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
Fifteen acres of land and a dower-life like that ... for so much property!. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Polish Tales] Reference
Really, they needed no dower with their good looks, for they were all pretty. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference
I want to know how a man must set to work who wishes to get back Unna's dower. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference
Henry argued on the other side that the balance of the dower should be paid over. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
Bertrade, when she had retired to an estate which was her dower, in the diocese of. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Then claims Andromeda, the rich reward, without a dower, of all his valorous toil. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II] Reference
How can they still dower a common life pressed insistently toward uniformity of action?. From Wordnik.com. [The Family and it's Members] Reference
South Gyrvii, or Fenmen, A.D. 652, who settled upon her the whole Isle of Ely as a dower. From Wordnik.com. [Ely Cathedral] Reference
While the husband lives the wife's right of dower in only inchoate; it cannot be enforced. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
He is pale and weak; but, returning her the amount of her dower, goes out to shoot the lover. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 03, April 16, 1870] Reference
"Don't care, provided she is a tidy, sensible, active lass, with a good character for her dower.". From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
In the absence of such signature, the widow can claim full dower rights after the husband's death. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
Josephine soon consented to give her hand to the young soldier of fortune, who had no dower but his sword. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
"Come," added she, "you will have a handsome fee; Micheline's dower will be worth the trouble you have had.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In this case, she may, after his death, elect to take either such property or her dower; but she cannot take both. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
The King denies thee thy bride and the dower thy blood had earned; and a foreigner is sought for heir to the kingdom. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
The Gauls were there among the brushwood, hard on the fortress, secure in the darkness and the dower of shadowy night. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
On the other side of the road, in the same row as the Benyon dower-house, but well within sight of the window, was the. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
John did not live on the best of terms with his mother-in-law, who from the dower-house at Kralove Hradec, called by the. From Wordnik.com. [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference
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