What a boon to men and society is a woman without marriageable daughters," laughed Vaura.
He requests the king to reward the faithful services rendered by Legazpi; and to do so by providing for his daughters, now of marriageable age, and giving to his son Melchior some grant in New Spain.
Every woman is married as soon as she arrives at a marriageable age, and whenever a man dies his wife is taken by some one else, so that with them old maids and widows are unknown.
Very naturally and properly they adopt a guarded manner in addressing a missive to a peculiarly marriageable young gentleman like you, lest their intentions be misinterpreted.
He knew the fortune and reputation of every marriageable young man in society, and was therefore eminently fitted for the task he undertook.
Through his cousins he had very soon made the acquaintance of the Montevarchi household, and seeing that there were two marriageable daughters, he profited by the introduction.
He had long since lost track of his kinsfolk, and although he insisted that he was anxious to marry he carefully kept away from all marriageable ladies.
She has absolute control of them until the girl reaches a marriageable age; then Dad collects the marriage price.
Though Virgins of the Sun, they were brides of the Inca, and, at a marriageable age, the most beautiful among them were selected for the honors of his bed, and transferred to the royal seraglio.
Children are highly prized, and a marriageable woman or girl who has one or more of them is much more valuable as a match than one who is childless.
It will be sufficient to say that nearly every one gets married a few years after arrival at a marriageable age, the bridegroom being as a rule rather older than the bride.
For instance, Eliza Pinckney wrote in reply to her father's inquiry about her marriageable possibilities: "As you propose Mr. L.
And in this district there are at least six hundred white girls of virtuous estate, of marriageable age, between fourteen and twenty-five or thirty years.
Now, when Mrs. Miller came to pass the marriageable men of Meadowshire under review, there was no such eligible bachelor amongst them all as Sir John Kynaston, of Kynaston Hall.
And how was the extra population to be stayed if every one of the doomed quota of marriageable males were of the same mind as himself?
When mamma has offered me ineffectually to every marriageable man in Meadowshire, she will get quite sick of it, and, I dare say, I shall be allowed to do as I like then without any more fuss.
In the mind of a fast young man wealth has a magical influence, which is sure to invest the possessor, if a marriageable young lady, however unattractive, with irresistible charms.
In ancient times marriageable women were the subjects of bargain and sale, and were more generally obtained by purchase than courtship.
If all marriageable men and women were but crystallized into happy families, earth would soon become a paradise.
It is true that every marriageable woman has a natural right to select, if not elect, a husband; and this she may and ought to do, not by ballot, but by the influence of her charms and her virtues.
Before marriage, a tali-kettu ceremony resembling that of the Nayars is often gone through, all the girls of a family who are of marriageable age having talis tied round their necks on the same day by a maternal uncle.
When a young man of the Velan caste has attained the marriageable age, his father and maternal uncle select a suitable girl as a wife, after a proper examination and agreement of their horoscopes.
Among the natives of the Kimberley District in West Australia, if a young man on reaching a marriageable age can find no wife, he is presented with a boy-wife, known as chookadoo.
Hence a young man of marriageable age, whom consumption or any other lingering disease had marked for its own, would be compelled by his parents or guardians to marry at once.
He humbly beseeches Her Majesty to have pitiful regard for his wife and marriageable children.
He has a wife and five children all marriageable and unprovided for.
So long as your thoughts are jostled by debts, duns, mortgages, and marriageable daughters, you 'll have no room for vows or irregular verbs!
Not having any marriageable daughters of my own to dispose of, I never asked him for a schedule of his effects.
Mamas with marriageable daughters declared that he was impossible; the marriageable daughters never had a chance to decide one way or the other; and men called him a fool.
The father was obliged to see that his daughter was educated in a manner becoming her rank, and, when at a marriageable age, to procure her a husband of suitable means and family.
Uncle Jet was a mean old thing to send her here, where there were threemarriageable young ladies.
In each of their several districts this custom was every year observed: such of their virgins as were marriageable were, at an appointed time and place, assembled together.
Three men, respectable for their virtue, and who were at the head of their several tribes, conducted the young women that were marriageable to the place of assembly, and there sold them by the voice of the public crier.
Kaiser has three daughters whom he rears in close confinement, but whom he permits one day, after they have become of marriageable age, to dance the kolo.
When they have become of marriageable age, they are found by two princes, who take them away and make them their wives.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marriageable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: adult; big; eligible; grown; mature; old; ripe
