Pertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting dower, or comprised in it.
Furnished with, or as with, dower or a marriage portion.
Here we encounter a symbolism mainly founded on association by resemblance; the animal sexual act recalls the human sexual act; the animal becomes the symbol of the human being.
Although it is not impossible to find some germs of erotic symbolism in animals, in its more pronounced manifestations it is only found in the human species.
Halford for his daughter's marriage portion, and the young people sailed for Australia with their own hopes for the future bright and glowing, and followed by the earnest prayers of their reluctant parents.
I placed with them was to have been Mary's marriage portion.
Of course I did; do you suppose I was fool enough to give up to him the money I have worked so hard for, as my daughter's marriage portion?
Well, she thinks that if a man of energy and talent could be found, who would be satisfied with thirty thousand francs for my marriage portion, we might all be happy.
Of the five hundred thousand francs that formed my daughter's marriage portion, two hundred thousand have vanished--God knows how!
I promise you I will give the child a marriage portion; I will see that she marries well, and has some education.
For a marriage portion," Feigenbaum declared, "second mortgages is nix.
I made up my mind that because Mr. Feigenbaum is engaged to my Fannie I will give her them mortgages as a marriage portion.
If the free-born woman had no marriage portion, everything which her husband and she had acquired since they kept house together, into two parts they shall divide.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marriage portion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
