DOWRY in a Sentence

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12 example sentences for DOWRY, such as:

1. The icons, and my dowry bed, all the rest is lost.
2. Ever since Valentine's dowry had been mentioned, Morrel had been silent and sad.
3. He will take you with your dowry and take Mademoiselle Bourienne into the bargain.
4. When, however, we both grew up, they sent Ctimene to Same and received a splendid dowry for her.
5. He did not know at all how much he had, what his debts amounted to, or what dowry he could give Vera.

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dowry
 n.  money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
Classic Sentence:
1  Should he allow her, on marriage, a dowry of, say, two hundred thousand roubles, she will be a very nice catch indeed.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
2  He will take you with your dowry and take Mademoiselle Bourienne into the bargain.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V
3  He did not know at all how much he had, what his debts amounted to, or what dowry he could give Vera.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI
4  A few days before the wedding Berg entered the count's study early one morning and, with a pleasant smile, respectfully asked his future father-in-law to let him know what Vera's dowry would be.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI
5  The icons, and my dowry bed, all the rest is lost.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXIII
6  The dowry of his wife amounted to fifty thousand crowns, and he had, besides, the prospect of seeing her fortune increased to half a million at her father's death.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Examination.
7  Ever since Valentine's dowry had been mentioned, Morrel had been silent and sad.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 63. The Dinner.
8  When, however, we both grew up, they sent Ctimene to Same and received a splendid dowry for her.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XV
9  She had gone to Ergushovo, the estate that had been her dowry, and the one where in spring the forest had been sold.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7
10  There's messuages; tenements; napery; cattle; my dowry; an inventory.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
11  By paying a small sum every week into a society, he ensured for both his daughters a dowry of one hundred pounds each when they came to the age of twenty-four.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A MOTHER
12  She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
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