Voorbeelden van dowry

• Because she had no dowry to be paid. 

• He, impoverished as he is, looks for a splendid dowry. 

• In order to provide a dowry for her, her father invested all his savings in shares of the Universal Bank, losing everything after its failure. 

• Marriage was considered inexpedient unless large dowries were brought to the husband. 

• The dowry is given to the husband, for him to enjoy as long as the marriage shall last. 

• The suggestion put forward is that a dowry system was perhaps an essential part of such alliances.

• Yet, with dowry demands continuously increasing, it is doubtful whether a marriage to a more prosperous house was always possible.

• Three, even moveable dowry is seldom considered entirely the woman's own, and is rarely in her exclusive control.