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“Whoever can do the most amazing thing on our royal television, whoever can show the most ingenuity and talent, will win the hand of our grand-daughter in marriage together with half of our personal estates and investments as a dowry
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It also suggested she’d come with a rich dowry, since she was anything but beautiful
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With my dowry, I was promised a payment of … let us see … eight thousand pounds
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He has also lost the gold that is my dowry
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A dowry, the likes of which has never been seen
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She was born in Pilar of good dowry and a very comfortable life
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Now Nic’s dowry to our marriage became apparent
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though he would marry her, came into the place, and his friends that were with him, to receive money in name of a dowry
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Worthy nuptials he procured from a lady with dowry abundant
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IN WOMB OR LEAST DOWRY WHEN THEY WED THEIR
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20 And Leah said, God has endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun
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according to the dowry of virgins
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20 And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my
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14 For Antiochus as though he would marry her came into the place and his friends that were with him to receive money in name of a dowry
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A large dowry was a status symbol in the village and many girls tried to accumulate their "treasures" to impress their prospective husbands
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It was a large dowry and one that was quite impressive
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Zoe was never fond of the idea that a woman should have a large dowry; it made her feel as though she was property herself
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They left early the next morning after the dowry has been paid
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Elizabeth"s dowry paid the deposit on a block of flats
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Kim was going to marry Tighe and that was that, her fiancé had already paid a $100,000 dowry, which the family were not prepared to return
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And the mother-son duo saw an opportunity to realize their goals with the dowry in the offing
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But, as the needs of life prevailed over the wants of his dreams, the dowry that Ruma fetched was consumed by their decrepit dwelling
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‘I give you the girl in my guardianship in marriage in accordance to the Islamic Shari'ah in the presence of the witnesses here with the dowry agreed upon
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Siri replied, ‘I accept marrying your guard giving her name to myself in accordance to the Islamic Shari'ah in the presence of the witnesses here with the dowry agreed upon
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It was of great value and was a wedding gift from Musab to serve as her dowry
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It was an arranged marriage with a dowry and other
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Once the child would be born and circumcised, though, Yosef would have to return his present house and farming fields, which had been part of his first wife’s dowry, to his first parents-in-law
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Jodas’s father received the news of the extent of the dowry required, with a calmness that gave away the fact that he already knew what Gled and Jodas had sensibly arranged
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Now it was mothers turn to wail and moan, Gled just stared off into the air as though this discussion had nothing to do with her, when I approached she whispered the dowry her and Jodas had agreed would satisfy all parties
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On the day Michel de Nostradame finally returned, Scaliger and Nostradamus had a tremendous fight, with Scaliger turning red in the face, demanding a return of his dowry and insisting that he leave town at once
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dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but
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It’s a major problem of our society; it’s very unfortunate that even today social evils like dowry, child marriages, female infanticides and female feticides are continued practicing in our country
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I happily presented all the stuffs demanded by their in-laws in dowry
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“My elder brother has given me those cattle as dowry at the time of our marriage, did you know that?” My mother raised her high pitch
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have her and he had killed her chosen suitor and had also killed his own wife so he could be free to marry her, a dowry of 100 head of
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Now I read an interesting story about a man up in the Solomon Islands, and in the Solomon Islands, they pay a dowry for the women
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This particular woman he wanted to marry, and she wasn't very a very attractive woman, and they used to pay a dowry of one cow or cattle beast if a woman's pretty
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He got 10 or 12 cattle beasts, and he paid them for the dowry, and everyone went [inhales sharply] wow, even the best we've ever heard of is three
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When Red Moon heard this Greek story she went to her father Red Chief and asked for the winged horse Red Chief said “your education is your dowry Brave daughter and your career Pegasus the winged horse which will take you places
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‘Just the same, you can appreciate that the more the groom is fascinated by the bride, the more he loses on the dowry
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"But, Pavo paid his dowry for her
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There was the pending law case against the Knowles family, who were questioning William's right to his mother's dowry, and there was his feud with William Bradford
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As far as Roger is concerned, William is Judith's bastard and he wants her dowry back
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The Knowles inserted a clause to say that if Judith died without legitimate issue then her dowry would be returned to them
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'Your betrothed will arrive with a substantial dowry
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'Red shows the lands united to the Gascoigne estate in accordance with the terms of Judith's dowry
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"Since there was no time to prepare the dowry, Adik Hamza has promised to pay it directly to Ananda Mita
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I have to find some way to spend my dowry
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Nowadays, the youths who want from their parents to marry them or to marry by nothing, don't they see the prophet Moses who paid a dowry; it was grazing the sheep in the desert for ten years, the father of the bride left him to choose either to work for eight years or ten years, but he chose to work for ten years, Allah says:
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“They were also known as Dowry Boxes
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paid her dowry )
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Dowry: The price paid for a wife, and in addition some wealth or service given
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In white culture it was often the woman who was sent to her husband’s house with a dowry because a girl child is a burden to her parents who have to ensure that she remains untarnished in the eyes of the world
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He squandered my dowry
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How often she went once around the clock without a word, her head in her books, her saving grace for suitability, the mansion held up as dowry
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Where go now in this dark time, senseless, parents in the ground, epitaphs written on cold stone, born and died, numbers, the gasps between inaudible, the dowry counted in digits not deeds, the facts hidden there in that snow covered earth, where go now when the wind blows in from all corners and I’m cut off from kind, an island in a desert of ice, wanting to scream and yell and have my time yet never the time to have it
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The servant had further informed him that he was now going to the Indies with the appointment of Judge of the Supreme Court of Mexico; and he had learned, likewise, that the young lady was his daughter, whose mother had died in giving birth to her, and that he was very rich in consequence of the dowry left to him with the daughter
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He had spent so much for repairs at Tostes, for madame's toilette, and for the moving, that the whole dowry, over three thousand crowns, had slipped away in two years
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It suddenly seemed to him to have been full of long damp nights sleeping under the stars, desperate fights with trolls, city guards, countless bandits and evil priests and, on at least three occasions, actual demigods - and for what? Well, for quite a lot of treasure, he had to admit - but where had it all gone? Rescuing beleagured maidens had a certain passing reward, but most of the time he'd finished up by setting them up in some city somewhere with a handsome dowry, because after a while even the most agreeable exmaiden became possessive and had scant sympathy for his efforts to rescue her sister sufferers
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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
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I had two hundred thousand francs placed in the hands of Morrel & Son; these two hundred thousand francs were the dowry of my daughter, who was to be married in a fortnight, and these two hundred thousand francs were payable, half on the 15th of this month, and the other half on the 15th of next month
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At one end was the receipted bill for the 287,000 francs, and at the other was a diamond as large as a hazel-nut, with these words on a small slip of parchment:—Julie's Dowry
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count)—"this letter was written by him the day that my father had taken a desperate resolution, and this diamond was given by the generous unknown to my sister as her dowry
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"I," said Danglars, "have always intended giving my daughter 500,000 francs as her dowry;
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"I accept it," said she; "he has a right to pay the dowry, which I shall take with me to some convent!" Putting the letter in her bosom, she took her son's arm, and with a firmer step than she even herself expected she went down-stairs
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She had gone to Ergushovo, the estate that had been her dowry, and the one where in spring the forest had been sold
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Vincy would advance money to provide furniture-; and though, since it would not be necessary to pay for everything at once, some bills would be left standing over, he did not waste time in conjecturing how much his father-in-law would give in the form of dowry, to make payment easy
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‘She left me a house, but as part of a dowry, held in trust to be handed to my future husband because the women of the family are traditionally stupid and my father won’t put it in my name
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He did not know at all how much he had, what his debts amounted to, or what dowry he could give Vera
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When his daughters were born he had assigned to each of them, for her dowry, an estate with three hundred serfs; but one of these estates had already been sold, and the other was mortgaged and the interest so much in arrears that it would have to be sold, so that it was impossible to give it to Vera
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Berg had already been engaged a month, and only a week remained before the wedding, but the count had not yet decided in his own mind the question of the dowry, nor spoken to his wife about it
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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
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But Berg, smiling pleasantly, explained that if he did not know for certain how much Vera would have and did not receive at least part of the dowry in advance, he would have to break matters off
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Anna Mikhaylovna, who often visited the Karagins, while playing cards with the mother made careful inquiries as to Julie’s dowry (she was to have two estates in Penza and the Nizhegorod forests)
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The icons, and my dowry bed, all the rest is lost
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She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth
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Miss Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the future
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dowry and, above all, one who had
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" Old Prince Sokolsky will give Anna Andreyevna a good dowry; fshe's a favourite
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Stebelkov was right, of course, in saying that the old man meant to give her a dowry, but how could he dare to reckon on getting anything out of it ! Prince Sergay had shouted after him that morning that he was not in the least afraid of him : surely Stebfelkov had not actually spoken to him of Anna Andreyevna in the study ? I could fancy how furious I should have been in Prince Sergay's place
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He has wasted all his sister's dowry on eating and drinking, and in fact all they had he spent on eating and drinking during the year he was in the service, and I see now he worries
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I know all the ins and outs of the business, and they shall give you the whole dowry, and you'll be a wealthy man with a career before you ! "
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But with the young lady there was to come as dowry a house, and though it was a nasty little wooden house of one storey, yet it was property of a kind
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And only fancy, I was engaged to be married—to a girl still at school, three months under sixteen, with a dowry of ninety thousand
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He'll carry off Katerina Ivanovna, for whom he is languishing, and pocket her dowry of sixty thousand
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I referred to her being rich and having a dowry while I was only a stuck-up beggar! I mentioned money! I ought to have borne it in silence, but it slipped from my pen
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They were of agreeable appearance and lively character, and though every one knew they would have no dowry, they attracted all the young men of fashion to their grandfather's house
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Did you know, Ilusha, he is just married, got a dowry of a thousand roubles, and his bride's a regular fright of the first rank and the last degree
