dowry

How To Use dowry In A Sentence

• Married at an early age, the Florentine woman from the propertied classes did not own either her dowry or the rich clothes and jewels which bedecked her during the wedding ceremony.
• The women are punished for refusing arranged marriages, or if their family fails to produce a promised dowry, or who in some way bring dishonour on their family.
• It shall be no offence for you to divorce your wives before the marriage is consummated or the dowry is settled.
• They saw the pillars of society pulled dowry by an unseen Samson and watched the victims crawling painfully from the ruins. Inflation and War Finance
• A city court today sentenced an executive of a private company and his parents to life imprisonment for causing the death of his wife after subjecting her to extreme cruelty due to dowry demands.
• The groom's folks were bound by custom to be even more critical of her appearance and her dowry than were the neighborhood women.
• She had no money for the dowry that convents demanded, but she offered herself as a lay sister - that is, one of the nuns who performs all the heavy work of the house.
• He had no doubt that his father must have allotted a large amount of money to her for her dowry.
• The Elector was broke and couldn't afford to pay the agreed dowry, but he wanted the money such a marriage would be sure to bring his way.
• My dowry's considerable - more than sufficient to resuscitate the Ashford family fortunes, at least by enough to get by. ON A WICKED DAWN