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dower
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1. during the continuance of the minority, devolved to the superior, without any other charge besides the maintenance of the minor, and the payment of the widow's dower, when there happened to be a dowager upon the land
2. Daniel Dower, for example, enjoyed a milestone event while he was in his EMBA Program: The birth of triplets, who joined four other siblings
3. Roger ran from the chapel and recognised him as one of the loyal tenants of Judith's dower
4. And why was the pebble so emphatically ground in at the corner? It was not to count his notes that he took out a wad of papers and read a long flowing letter which Sandra had written two days ago at Milton Dower House with his book before her and in her mind the memory of something said or attempted, some moment in the dark on the road to the Acropolis which (such was her creed) mattered for ever
5. The judicious parent, having nothing to bestow or withhold but his blessing, had handsomely settled that dower upon them after a short struggle, and had informed Mr
6. She was entitled to her widow's dower
1. by “mother” Ann Lee (1736 — 1784) were dowered with “gift of
2. He founded hospitals, opened schools, visited the sick, dowered young girls, supported widows, and adopted orphans; he was like the guardian angel of the country
3. This she did under the direction of the Pole whom, that afternoon, she had dowered with two ten-gulden pieces
4. Astley, and this young lady might easily take that figure for his real self—for the natural form of his heart and soul—instead of the mere cloak with which heredity has dowered him
