Usar "dowery" en una oración

1. She had rais’d me as a true Daughter—a Daughter of her Heart, if not of her Womb—and, tho’ I had no Dowery and no Hopes of a fine Match, I was in some wise more fortunate than Mary because I was less oppress’d by Familial Duty

2. ’Tis a Paradox that the Lack of a Dowery can be a Boon to some Ladies, for what had attracted Lord Bellars to Lady Bellars but her Dowery, and should she not have been far happier without him?