Myrtle Hazard had nearly reached the age of fourteen, and, though not like to inherit much of the family property, was fast growing into a large dower of hereditary beauty.
Mohammad gave him back Juwairiyah, but only to ask him immediately for her hand, offering as dower the sum of four hundred drachmas.
Such is the wise custom of the dower which the enemies of Islam call the purchase of a wife.
Charles the Dauphin was engaged to marry the little Margaret, Maximilian's daughter, and as her dower she was to bring Franche Comte and sundry places on the border line disputed between the two princes.
If there is one piece of furniture above another that is surrounded with a halo of romance, surely it is the dower chest!
In the Castle Museum there is another chest made for Queen Philippa in 1333--a veritable dower chest.
Curiously enough, American craftsmen copied them and maintained the purity of the old English style long after the makers of English dower chests had been influenced by Dutch and French design and inlay.
The evolution of the chest until it became a cabinet or a chest of drawers is a story for the lover of old furniture to tell, but the dower chest in its earlier forms is a curio rich in legend and folklore.
Holland and brother-in-law to the adventurer, paid him the fifty thousand gulden still due on his wife's dower and gave him twelve battle-ships in addition.
It was one not easy to get rid of, dread of the snake having spread far and wide, and though he offered his daughter with a great dower to the man who should kill it, no one for a long time ventured to strive for the reward.
Would it ever have entered my mind, the bare will, much less power, To bestow on this Saul what I sang of, the marvellous dower Of the life he was gifted and filled with?
She possessed Mantes by her dower right, and added to its collegiate church the Rayonnant chapel of Navarre, in which are portrait statuettes representing her daughters.
Harrisse cannot find that the promised dower ever came with the wife; but, on the contrary, Diego seems to have become the financial agent of his wife's family.
This was only possible because the Queen took some money which she had laid aside as a part of a dower which was intended for her daughter Isabella, then betrothed to Emmanuel, the King of Portugal.
The earthly dower of Maria Theresa was certainly the richest ever granted to any female sovereign of the world.
What I propose is that your father and mother shall come home and take possession of the dower house, and that your father should act as my agent.
There is a large house upon it which I suppose Marion and I will have to occupy occasionally; and there is another house, which is known as the dower house, and which is a very snug and comfortable abode.
It contains, in fine good louis, the dower I promised you, to which I have just added two thousand four hundred livres.
The thought of a dower never presented itself to me; be convinced of that, Monsieur Desmarais.
Now he lived for the most part quietly at the Dower House, which lay just across the park of Kencote, and busied himself with country pursuits and the management of the estate to which he would one day succeed.
The dark-panelled dining-room of the Dower House framed a warm picture of two men and two women sitting at the round table, bright with lights and flowers, old silver and sparkling glass.
He made occasion to go to the Rectory, and to the Dower House, and spent some little time at each; and the hour came round.
The sun was setting behind the tall elms that bordered the garden of the Dower House.
He thought he would go down to theDower House and consult Dick; but went to find his wife instead.
The guns met the next morning at the corner by the Dower House.
He despatched his daughter Blanche and her hardly extracteddower to Germany, and a terrible example was made of the friars.
She was married to the Duke of Orleans's eldest son, aged eleven, the greater portion of her dower being a lien on Henry of England for the unpaid balance of the sum above alluded to, an indifferent security.
XXXIV THE DARK GLASS Not I myself know all my love for thee: How should I reach so far, who cannot weigh To-morrow's dowerby gage of yesterday?
For dower of blessed children, For love and faith's sweet sake, For high mysterious union, Which naught on earth may break.
He drove into the town also now and then, and looked in on the shop-keepers, and was friendly as usual; and on these occasions always took a ramble either over the hill or by the old Malory road, in the direction of the Dower House.
Across the Warren there is a wild pathway which leads toward Malory, coming out upon the old road close by Llanderris churchyard, and within a few minutes' walk of the wooded grounds of the ancient Dower House of the Verneys.
A dower house now, it had once been the principal mansion of his family.
This sister had seen Maidee at the public bath, and it was the account which she gave of her surprising beauty and great dower that determined Omar to try every means to make her his wife.
I know thou art fair and winsome, and deftly gifted, and thy father may, for aught I know, be able to coin thee a queen's dower out of his awsome engines.
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