It is anyone's guess how possessive she would feel when they reach the 'marriageable' age but how does she takes care of the parenting part while busy on a shoot?. From Wordnik.com. [The Economic Times] Reference
It did seem a rare combination of marriageable qualities. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 29, 1919] Reference
The two señoritas are of the marriageable age -- oh, yes!. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference
The fewer the marriageable girls, the higher their market value. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870] Reference
He has a wife and five children all marriageable and unprovided for. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
The marriageable age was from fourteen for men, and twelve for girls. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference
Temptingly did the mothers with marriageable daughters display their wares. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
Girls are marriageable very young; sometimes they have children at ten years old. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa] Reference
Madelene had a couple of marriageable cousins then and that may account for old Andy. From Wordnik.com. [Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers] Reference
The marriageable age of girls is from twelve to fourteen years, and that of boys sixteen. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
"What a boon to men and society is a woman without marriageable daughters," laughed Vaura. From Wordnik.com. [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference
And now, being marriageable, she looked always about her with shy, quick, expectant glances. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
They must not, needless to say, realise the fact that marriageable young men are real facts. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
He humbly beseeches Her Majesty to have pitiful regard for his wife and marriageable children. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
Two undertake to personate a goodman and a goodwife; the rest a family of marriageable daughters. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk] Reference
His not marrying was in itself a good augury, and his little fiancee was reaching a marriageable age. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
There are marriageable young women here, too, whose acquaintance I have made with that object in view. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873] Reference
The idea that a marriageable man would work as a nurse is so inconceivable that he assumes nursing is a hobby. From Wordnik.com. [Men’s Lib] Reference
A fond mamma with a marriageable daughter half unconsciously sighed aloud at the thought of such a son-in-law. From Wordnik.com. [High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn] Reference
She ended by informing me she had a marriageable daughter, and that her stomach was an obstacle to her fasting. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
One represented her a woman grown and marriageable; another, as high as my walking-stick; the third, a little child. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
When they have become of marriageable age, they are found by two princes, who take them away and make them their wives. From Wordnik.com. [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference
Besides, Itzig had a daughter who was now of a marriageable age, and he was obliged to toil and save to provide a dowry. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
John Laydon, who had come as a laborer in 1607, took her, a girl fourteen years old, then of marriageable age, for a bride. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
White women delayed both marriage and childbearing, confident that, down the road, there would be a pool of marriageable men. From Wordnik.com. [Endangered Family] Reference
There was not a marriageable young girl who was not a little in love with him, and their mothers envied the luck of the Tzigana. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Young braves are always the very hardest members of the tribe to engage in conversation, except a young girl of marriageable age. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheep Eaters] Reference
There are in Britain to-day over a million and a quarter females of marriageable age in excess of the number of marriageable males. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
Dr Prichard considers the different ages at which women are said to be marriageable in different climates to be very much exaggerated. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
Judges also often play a pernicious role, rejecting girls 'testimony of consent or ignoring documents that prove she is of marriageable age. From Wordnik.com. [Rebel Brides And Ex-Wives] Reference
School, and who, as the weather was fine, wished to walk home and avoid the expense of a cab, left with his three marriageable daughters, and. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
“Very nice, very attractive, very marriageable, had he been so inclined, but he thought he was too young for that.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Triumph of the Human Spirit] Reference
Once in every year they assembled together all the girls that were marriageable, when the public crier put them up to sale, one after another. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
(Soundbite of song, "Aliss") BARDEEN: In the song, Aliss, a man lifting his marriageable traits, suddenly finds a group of jealous men on the road before him. From Wordnik.com. ['Etran Finatawa' and the Music of Niger] Reference
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