Her lord has made her sole executrix, and added what little douceurs he could to her jointure, which is but.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference

Most of the great families in England have a secondary residence, which is called a jointure-house: let the new house be of that kind. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Johnson]

Most of the great families of England have a secondary residence, which is called a jointure-house: let the new house be of that kind.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides] Reference

Of fruitful land, all which shall be her jointure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Taming of the Shrew] Reference

Amboise was her jointure, but she preferred Meudon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency]

Scatcherd with a pretty cottage and a good jointure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Framley Parsonage] Reference

A woman with a good jointure is a doosid deal easier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Pendennis] Reference

He will make you a hundred and fifty pounds jointure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Merry Wives of Windsor] Reference

Lady Maclean, who had the Isle of Col for her jointure.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland] Reference

He looked more closely at the jointure of the wrappings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comanche Moon] Reference

L600 jointure, and in case they have no children, L1,500.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

It is settled upon the children; a jointure in proportion.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference

Within a few hours, we were on our way to the jointure-house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference

American: they fled from before her to their jointure house in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virginians] Reference

Only think — it; after all, she were to give up her jointure!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Claverings] Reference

He consents, ‘that the jointure be made from my own estate.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

The Forest of Exmoor was part of the jointure of several Queens of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference

The Castle of Montargis is my jointure; at Orleans there is no house.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency]

She would go away somewhere, and live as best she might upon her jointure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Claverings] Reference

Byrd from Stondon Place, on the ground that it formed part of her jointure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

The fact is, that the house had been originally the jointure-house of Oakhurst.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virginians] Reference

The dowager retired to Scotland with a large jointure and a wondrous heap of savings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fitz-Boodle Papers] Reference

She was a very beautiful woman, with a large jointure, and she was obviously in love with him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Pottage] Reference

There were two small pieces of ordnance on the terrace of the jointure-house, and six before the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virginians] Reference

Therefore my jointure produces nothing; all that I have to live on comes from the King and my son.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency]

She had a fine jointure settled upon her, and took herself away, to the great joy of the tenantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castle Rackrent] Reference

The estate was confiscated to the Inquisition, and a small jointure allowed out of it to the widow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference

She enjoys a jointure of five hundred pounds a-year, and makes shift to spend three times that sum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Expedition of Humphry Clinker] Reference

She lived upon her jointure, recklessly spending capital as well as interest, and gathering under her roof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference

Brougham brought no property to her husband but her jointure of £1,500 a-year, and the house No. 5, Hill-street.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction Volume 17, No. 496, June 27, 1831] Reference

October 10, 1821, to the young widow, Mary Hyman, who was blessed with two children, and a jointure of fifty pounds a year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

But Lady Ongar, with her large jointure, and with no external expenses whatever, could afford this delight without imprudence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Claverings] Reference

He never so much as asked me about my fortune or estate, but assured me that when we came to Dublin he would jointure me in #600.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moll Flanders] Reference

It was not long before he passed over to the majority, leaving his fascinating widow with a substantial jointure on his property.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Portland Peerage Romance] Reference

Her jointure, it appears, was stopped by the Commissioners, and she was unable, without that supply, to travel from Rome to Geneva.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference

There was much characteristic haggling over dower and jointure, matters in which the Tudors always drove the hardest bargain they could.    From Wordnik.com.  [England under the Tudors] Reference

But then, brother, says he further, if this marriage should happen, would you expect that my son should settle a jointure on your daughter?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01] Reference

The mignonette beauty looks mighty well in his grandmother's jointure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference

His mother. indeed, who lived till ninety, had a jointure of six hundred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2] Reference