There is our property dwindling down to little; there's the business dwindling down to nothing; and suppose Travice took it into his head to many a portionless girl, what prospect would there be before him?
It were not well that so noble a damsel should go portionless to her husband.
He was generous enough for it, or for marrying the portionless girl himself.
Where was there another man in his position would take a portionless girl and make her his wife?
His new son in high favor with the emperor, lord of lands and serfs; his daughter, good and beautiful as an angel, goes not portionless into the house of her husband, but is the sole heiress of immense estates.
Such scruples would be in place if you were a portionless forward girl, or if he were a conceited young puppy, or even a suspicious old roue.
Nor could a long courtship be kept secret; Darrell might hear of it, and come over at once; and the Marquess's ambitious kinsfolk would not fail to interfere if the news of his intended marriage with a portionless cousin reached their ears.
Had he not everything which fathers want for portionless daughters, and uncles for dependant nieces?
It was, he knew, altogether out of the question that he should at once marry a portionless girl without his father's consent; probably out of the question that he should do so even with it.
Had old Blunt's scheme succeeded, I should have been married to a portionless gal, and forced to live on whatever he chose to give me.
Let them give to the bereft a share of the blessings of these days; let them guide the portionless to inexhaustible treasure.
He had proudly married an almost portionless girl of a very ancient aristocratic race, the last of the Vaugelades, whose blood was poor and whose mind was narrow.
Then, I said, we shall have to obliterate many obnoxious passages, beginning with the verses, I would rather he a serf on the land of a poor and portionless man than rule over all the dead who have come to nought.
Then, I said, we shall have to obliterate many obnoxious passages, beginning with the verses, 'I would rather be a serf on the land of a poor and portionless man than rule over all the dead who have come to nought.
Other figures, such as the dog, or the marriage of the portionless maiden, or the drones and wasps in the eighth and ninth books, also form links of connexion in long passages, or are used to recall previous discussions.
He burnt with the thought of Joseph's feelings of self-righteousness at marrying a portionless maid.
It had pleased his vanity to marry a portionless maid and give her all.
He also added, "if you marry her, you will not have a portionless bride.
But he only said, "You will not have a portionless bride.
You chose her as a poor portionless girl, and would have loved her as tenderly had she continued so; but we all know that this is an uncertain world, and it is as well to be prepared for its troubles.
Would the fact of his being able to support a wife in comfort and luxury tempt the mother to give him her portionless daughter?
If we choose portionless women, we are not portionless ourselves.
Poor Mrs. Howard, to the day of her death, never suffered another portionless beauty to enter her doors while even the shadow of an eldest son rested on its threshold.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "portionless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
