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Should he allow her, on marriage, a dowry of, say, two hundred thousand roubles, she will be a very nice catch indeed.

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dowry
 n.  money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
Classic Sentence:
1  Should he allow her, on marriage, a dowry of, say, two hundred thousand roubles, she will be a very nice catch indeed.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
2  He will take you with your dowry and take Mademoiselle Bourienne into the bargain.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V
3  He did not know at all how much he had, what his debts amounted to, or what dowry he could give Vera.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI
4  A few days before the wedding Berg entered the count's study early one morning and, with a pleasant smile, respectfully asked his future father-in-law to let him know what Vera's dowry would be.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI
5  The icons, and my dowry bed, all the rest is lost.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXIII
6  The dowry of his wife amounted to fifty thousand crowns, and he had, besides, the prospect of seeing her fortune increased to half a million at her father's death.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Examination.
7  Ever since Valentine's dowry had been mentioned, Morrel had been silent and sad.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 63. The Dinner.
8  When, however, we both grew up, they sent Ctimene to Same and received a splendid dowry for her.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XV
9  She had gone to Ergushovo, the estate that had been her dowry, and the one where in spring the forest had been sold.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7
10  There's messuages; tenements; napery; cattle; my dowry; an inventory.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
11  By paying a small sum every week into a society, he ensured for both his daughters a dowry of one hundred pounds each when they came to the age of twenty-four.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A MOTHER
12  She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
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