How To Use Dower In A Sentence
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The ci-devant banker, then a widower with an only daughter, Esther, had journeyed to England.
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The countess of Lincoln, twice widowed, once by Thomas, earl of Lancaster, and once by Ebulo Lestraunge, and therefore with two dowers, as well as being the Lacy heiress in her own right, was a very worthwhile prospect for anyone on the rise.
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Underwood - a superannuated widower - has two daughters.
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A married woman may bar her Release of right of dower in land conveyed by her husband or by operation dower° of law by joining in, the deed conveying the land or by releasing the land by a subsequent deed executed either separately or jointly with her husband.
Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
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At any rate, as the years pass, let us on this side of the water be more and more in the one great family, looking to the time when the young Canadian will win the crown of wild olive, that emblem of sweet honour and gray rest, that which is given as a reward and as a guerdon to gallant youth who stands dowered from the night and splendid for the day as the pride and hope of mankind.
The Imperial Significance of Games
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Nor could he sell her right to dower unless she agreed, an enormous limitation because it meant that, without her consent, her dower would operate like a lien on the property.
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I am reminded of the movie, Rachel and the Stranger, where the widower laments that his wife fought so hard to make their isolated cabin a home and bring beauty to it by insisting on planting flowers in the front yard, bringing her spinet to the West and playing it every evening, buying a metronome for her playing, educating their son in the home and insisting that he show good manners.
Archive 2007-09-01
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The Frenchmen diuerse times required to haue some dower assigned foorth for queene Isabell, but that was at all times vtterlie denied, for that the marriage betwixt hir and king Richard was neuer consummate, by reason whereof she was not dowable.
Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV
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No hope she'd inherit, but perhaps they'd want to dower her with a modest 100,000 acres out around Kynuna or Winton.
THE THORN BIRDS
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Nature thought good sense a handsome dower — but good sense in dependance is like a chef d oeuvres of Raffaelle [10] in a bog house. if the savages of America have fewer luxuries than the slaves of Europe they have fewer miseries — the artificial distinctions of birth & fortune are unknown — distinctions which though the Philosopher must despise, he must want. on the banks of the Oronoko when the young savages is born — his infancy is neither embitterd by fashionable nursing his puberty by absurd education or his life by the anxieties so frequent
Letter 66
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There were what they called dower rights in the age, and the people who want to sentimentalize this will say, Well, there was no reason for Shakespeare or the lawyer to write anything in because everyone understood that she ` d have these dower rights, as his surviving wife.
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
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Du'in 'the month thet he's showed signs o' keepin 'comp'ny with me - which he has acchilly asked me to marry him - he' ain't said the first word sech ez you'd expect of a co'tin 'widower, exceptin' one.
In Simpkinsville : character tales,
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Mr Murphy said that all widows and widowers who were overtaxed should be repaid this money with interest to compensate them for the loss of purchasing power.
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She was drinking all day by the dower.
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Family doctor and friend, Good Old George has forsworn his practice due to retirement, is a widower and now lives in bucolic bliss in the country.
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Cecil Maiden, third Earl of Heathermere, was a widower with three sons, by name Reginald, Bertie, and Osmund.
The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada
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The purpose of dower was to prevent the widow's becoming a public charge.
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Extra daughters were sent off to live in respectable refinement at convents, so that the family would not have to dower them as lavishly and divide the family patrimony.
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Last week's term was dower and curtesy, which is defined as:
Define That Term #285
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He remarried, became a widower, and remarried again.
Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
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Married to a widower with three children, her position is not much better than it was 16 years ago.
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Another inhibition for Sophia, whose stepfather has dowered her with an enormous amount of money.
Naked Cruelty
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I married my late husband when he was a widower after he retired and I accept that as a result I am not entitled to any pension from him.
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Harry Penrose turned up at the dower house two days later.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Widows were also entitled to a dower right to a third of their husband's land or income derived from the land.
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Think about what the parents, widows, widowers, and children of dead service men and women are thinking and feeling as these ‘intelligence failures’ are coming to light.
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Having been a widower for many years, he finally decided to marry again.
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Add to these resources the landed endowments of widows, whether dowers or dowries, and it can be seen that Edward's control over marriage was of key importance for his patronage programme.
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If either the husband or wife apostasizes, a divorce takes place ipso facto; the wife is entitled to her whole dower but no pronouncement of divorce is necessary.
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In a sense, the hardliners in the military and intelligence services are no different from a widow or widower who cannot accept the death of a spouse.
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The Princess Zairoff, to whom men's admiration was as familiar as the air of Heaven, who possessed rank and wealth and loveliness such as dower few women, had yet never granted to one human being a sign of tenderness, or unveiled, so to speak, the deep strange depths of her strange nature, to any beseechment.
The Mystery of a Turkish Bath
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The king was a widower, his wife having died giving birth to his daughter.
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But if you were free to-day, to-morrow, yesterday, can even I believe that you would choose a dowerless girl – you who, in your very confidence with her, weigh everything by Gain: or, choosing her, if for a moment you were false enough to your one guiding principle to do so, do I not know that your repentance and regret would surely follow?
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Stave 2 The First of the Three Spirits | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News
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He was still the tenant in 1398; judging from a 1403 feoffment, he may have been holding as a trustee for the dower rights of Gile's widow, Margaret.
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‘I am just a widower looking after his three children; a poor labourer who gets by picking olives and minding the vegetable patch,’ he told reporters.
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He would not provide dowers for his three daughters - Henrietta, Mary, and Kate.
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In the past they've tried to engineer a meeting with a local widower who lost his wife and children in a car accident.
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Always knowing that she wanted above all to create a garden, he searched for the right project, and eventually found The Dower House at Morville in Shropshire, a National Trust property offered for lease to applicants for a period of twenty years at a time.
Nature, Bounteous « Tales from the Reading Room
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No hope she'd inherit, but perhaps they'd want to dower her with a modest 100,000 acres out around Kynuna or Winton.
THE THORN BIRDS
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Of Tydeus next the lofty praise I will express in brief; no brilliant spokesman he, but a clever craftsman in the art of war, with many a shrewd device; inferior in judgment to his brother Meleager, yet through his warrior skill lending his name to equal praise, for he had found in arms a perfect science; his was an ambitious nature, a spirit rich in store of deeds, with words less fully dowered.
The Suppliants
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Well, Mother will have luncheon waiting for us in the dower house at one.
THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
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It is in such rare moments of revelation that a man realises dimly what it may mean for a woman dowered with the real courage and dignity of self-surrender to give herself to him; that he is vouch-safed a glimpse into that mystery of love, which cynics of the decadent school dismiss as "amoristic sentiment," a fictitious glorification of mere natural instinct.
The Great Amulet
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The story, that of a widower and a widow connecting with the help of their handyman, is pretty formulaic, and the characters are extremely two-dimensional, but I really liked the descriptions of the houses and the main character’s yacht.
Miracle
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'Mehr' is the amount the man agrees as the woman's dower, which is payable immediately, but if deferred is compulsory payment in his lifetime.
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Well, Mother will have luncheon waiting for us in the dower house at one.
THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
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The only real tradition here is that the groom must give his bride a dower to serve as insurance for her future.
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Rural England circa 1950 is the setting for the lighter-toned "A Red Herring Without Mustard" Delacorte, 399 pages, $23 , the third mystery by Alan Bradley to be narrated by 11-year-old Flavia de Luce: chemistry prodigy, amateur detective and mischievous bane of her two elder sisters and their distracted, upper-class, philatelic, cash-strapped widower-father.
Murder by the Numbers
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My way was yet to make in the world; to saddle myself with a dowerless wench -- even a wench whose least 'Good-morning' set a man's heart hammering at his ribs -- would have been folly, Master
The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages
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News, Gary Saton, 36, the widower who "safe havened 9 of his 10 children (the oldest is a legal adult) at Creighton University Medical Center last September, went to court Monday (March 9) to formally terminate his parental rights.
The Daily Bastardette
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‘I am just a widower looking after his three children; a poor labourer who gets by picking olives and minding the vegetable patch,’ he told reporters.
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Harry Penrose turned up at the dower house two days later.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Atli said, “Ill it beseemed to thee to do this, though somewhat of wrong was between us; for thou wert wedded to me by the rede of thy kin, and dower paid I for thee; yea, thirty goodly knights, and seemly maidens, and many men besides; and yet wert thou not content, but if thou should rule over the lands King Budli owned: and thy mother-inlaw full oft thou lettest sit a-weeping.”
The Story of the Volsungs
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Meanwhile, his widower father had remarried.
Times, Sunday Times
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_Filia generosi_, daughter of a house that bred gentlewomen, though its ability to dower them had declined in these latter days, she conceived her duty as wife and mother after the old fashion, and was so fortunate as to find no obstacle in circumstance.
The Whirlpool
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The elderly widower was so smitten that before they reached journey's end he proposed to her -- and was refused.
DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America
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The long widowerhood of Kaspar contributed to this, but it went deeper, had persisted far longer.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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Lear, childlike in his petulance, denies Cordelia her dower.
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The widower is at liberty when his wife dies; but he mourns for her in the same way, by cutting his hair off.
Life Among The Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims
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After Richard's death in 1199, Berengaria lived on her dower lands at Le Mans, France, where she was famed for her almsgiving.
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No hope she'd inherit, but perhaps they'd want to dower her with a modest 100,000 acres out around Kynuna or Winton.
THE THORN BIRDS
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He remarried, became a widower, and remarried again.
Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
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In no way a husband has been authorized to take back the dower money from his wife in case he divorces her.
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The chantry was a foundation with endowment, the proceeds of which went to one or more priests carrying the obligation of singing or saying Mass at stated times, or daily, for the soul of the endower, or for the souls of persons named by him.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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The widow or widower is released from the marriage contract by death ( 'til death do us part), but may continue to have an emotional connection to the deceased.
The Reality of Family
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A widower, he had five children, 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
The Mayor of Arthur Avenue
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The widower denied the charge - forcing his victim to relive her ordeal before a jury.
The Sun
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But I do not agree that the guardian of these minors may purchase, in his own name and for his personal benefit, the dower interest of the widow in the lands to which his wards hold the fee.
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But, as my father eagerly points out, he has a large estate for sons and plenty of money to dower daughters with.
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And so it was that in Middlesex Street, Whitechapel, in that year of 1853, after a protracted debate, many condemnations of a God who would permit such a child to be born, and a number of drunken rages culminating in beatings of the woman who had produced this particular unfortunate offspring, the child was named John Boleslaus Lachley and reared as a son in a family which had already produced four dowerless sisters.
Ripping Time
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Her work is at its best and strongest in her examination of the struggles that the queen experienced after she settled in Le Mans as a widow, both in attempting to secure her dower funds and to keep her household going.
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It's the story of a lonely middle-aged widower who contrives to find a new love by staging phony auditions for a TV show, then dating the most appealing actress.
Extremes on Screen
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Indeed, of the two rights, marriage seems to have been the more contested - affecting, as it did, not only the transmission of inheritances but also the fate of dowers, maritagiums, and marriage portions.
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Where the widows or widowers have died there may be other surviving family, like grandchildren.
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The city looked dark to the south, while numerous lights along the near shores, and the beautiful aspect of the banks reposing in placid night, the waters keenly reflecting the heavenly lights, gave to this beauteous river a dower of loveliness that might have characterized a retreat in Paradise.
II.2
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Her widower father blames Truly for killing his wife; to some degree her older sister pixyish Serena Jane does too.
Little Giant of Aberdeen County-Tiffany Baker « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
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About forty years of age, a man of the purest morals, entirely given up to his art, he had married from inclination the dowerless daughter of a general.
The Vendetta
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A widower, he wanted my help in getting entry clearance for his second wife, from Pakistan.
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Fare we forth for the land of Irak and wander over the world, so haply we may win dower and marriage portion, and we may seek and enjoy our cousins’ kisses and embraces when we come back.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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I do not feel that this is a proper way to conduct business with an elderly and vulnerable widower.
Times, Sunday Times
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The judge was the man for whom she had clerked, a widower with a heavy Russian accent and a love of the absurd.
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Foster carers do not need any special qualification - young couples, single people, widows and widowers and retired couples can apply.
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Moreover, she held the dower portion of her husband's lands, primarily made up of Maelienydd and Comot Deuddwr in Wales.
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The first floor of Glendower House was also formerly the offices of the Tenby employment exchange.
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So Lydia, Dena and Miss Lightbody who had managed to stay on as a companion and housekeeper, largely unpaid, moved into the dower house.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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It is also asking for pensions for part-time firefighters, who are currently excluded, and wants normal widows and widower benefits made available to unmarried partners.
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When Ireland reviewed his credentials and saw he was a priest of the Byzantine church and a widower, Ireland refused to grant him faculties or permission to officiate.
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He is, after all, a navy veteran who whistles for his children, a widower withdrawn so deeply into mourning that he flees from the memories that possess his home.
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Northern Rivers veterans and their partners, widows and widowers and children will be better off following the latest increases in veterans' pensions and allowances.
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There is no agreement about the town he came from, his age at the time of the apparitions, whether he was married or a widower, or whether he and his wife had children or lived in a celibate marriage.
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It was first constructed, we think, some time in the early to mid-17th century as a dower house and would have been quite grand in its time, not unlike the classical French chateaux.
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A widower, whose wife died from leukaemia last year, is appealing to people to join the bone marrow register on her birthday.
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The widower denied the charge - forcing his victim to relive her ordeal before a jury.
The Sun
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General Smith faid that the widow of the Black Prince had a dower from the Dutchy of Cornwall.
The Parliamentary Register: Or an Impartial Report of the Debates that Have Occured in the Two ...
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She has no other money or dower but what Aunt Diodora will give her, which will not be much, for in money matters she is not very liberal, and Cenni is called 'comtesse' because it suits Aunt Diodora's whims.
Dr. Dumany's Wife
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The widow has dower right in her late husband's property, even if she remarries - although the children are not to lose their inheritance as a result of her remarriage.
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Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
The *wrong* Big Question. | RedState
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We quite often have people in their late 60s and early 70s who sell their home - and married couples; not just widows or widowers - who decide that the time has come for them to move on.
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In all cases of forfeiture, the widow's dower shall be saved to her, during her title thereto; after which it shall be disposed of as if no such saving had been.
Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies
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Since widowers have higher death rates than married people, 22 23 controlling for widowhood would be expected to reduce the relative risks in this and other studies of smoking in spouses.
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The Pendant discusses the love between the two with Baptista, and they agree on a dower and a marriage.
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If she died, the husband still possessed the right to the rents and profits of all her realty for the rest of his life, while at his death she received only a child's part of his personalty and a life right, called a dower, in only one-third of his realty, and for a long time under North Carolina law she could be deprived of even this, for, if he chose, he could sell his realty without her consent and deprive her of dower.
Address by Chief Justice Walter Clark Before the Federation of Women's Clubs, New Bern, N. C., 8 May, 1913
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The poor man she declared to be her choice, but the purse-proud father declared his firlot of silver money, his twelve cows, and as many calves, his sheep and oxen, intended as his daughter's dower, would never enrich a pennyless man without houses and lands.
The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
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Women participated in the transmission of wealth mostly through marriage rather than through working, and the dower was their social security.
Jane Minogue: So Cal Chronicles Suburban-Style
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Watching the race will be a young widower whose wife died of cervical cancer in March.
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There's a string of more complicated provisions that affect, for example, widows, widowers and divorcees.
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Well, Mother will have luncheon waiting for us in the dower house at one.
THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
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Charlie was an orphan and had been raised by an old widower man, Mr Smith, who many respected, but everyone thought was slightly mad.
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In the meantime, Cathy finds solace with her gardener, a widower with a young daughter.
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He is not likely to claim the hand of a dowerless maiden.
The Black Dwarf
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The amount of his dower, twelve hundred livres, was much less; one thousand livres were again for both of them, with the sum to which the widow would be entitled from the estate being set at eight hundred livres.
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In no way a husband has been authorized to take back the dower money from his wife in case he divorces her.
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The mansion may have been spared the worst because only an old widow on her dower was living there, or perhaps Doctor Isaac was tolerated in intolerant times because of his importance to the community.
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Widows and widowers aren't baggage-free either, and even those stalwarts who have remained single for half a lifetime will be carrying armfuls of ingrained habits and cherished routines.
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On Thursday evening last, while a widower attended his wife's funeral, his home in Foxpoint in Barnatra was burgled and a substantial amount of cash taken.
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Upon the report whereof, Ricciardo becomming likewise a widdower, and grieving extraordinarily for his haynous transgression, penitently betooke himselfe to live in a wildernesse, where (not long after) he ended his dayes.
The Decameron
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And further he gaue at the same time vnto the king of Scots the castell of Edenbourgh: and the king of Scots streitwaies gaue it vnto his wife the forsaid Ermingard, as a portion of hir dower, augmented with an hundred pounds of lands by the yeare, and
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second
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In England, by the thirteenth century, the generous apportionment of dower to widows in aristocratic society was, it appears, often mirrored in town and countryside lower down the social scale.
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When it (hall be given in a writ of dower fcr the demandant to iccover againll the terar?, when againft the vouchee, f.
Reports of Cases in the Reigns of Hen: VIII.
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The pearls -- which she always wore -- some coral ornaments, and a handful of amber beads were her only dower, but her caprices were the insolent and extravagant caprices of a queen.
Shapes that Haunt the Dusk
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The wife may remit the dower or any part thereof in favour of the husband or his heirs.
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The young lady who had so high a spirit as to have at times awakened somewhat of terror in those who were her adversaries; the young lady who had made such a fine show in male attire, and of whom it had been said that she could outleap, outfence, and outswear any man her size, had made a fine match indeed, marrying an elderly nobleman and widower, who for years had lived the life of a recluse, at last becoming hopelessly enamoured of one who might well be his youngest child.
His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality
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Their first case, a home invasion rape-murder that uncovers a series of pattern crimes with an unlikely prime suspect, features a strong guest performance by White Collar's Tim DeKay as a grieving widower but otherwise seems indistinguishable from a sordid Special Victims Unit potboiler.
Roush Review: A LOLA Makeover
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So, although Charles is, in the eyes of the CofE, a widower, Camilla is a divorcée, and therefore cannot be married in a Church.
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When Nur al-Din heard such demand he said, What manner of dower is this thou wouldst impose upon my son?
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Diomedes received from Daunus, as a dower with his wife, was called Calydon, from the city of Calydon, in his native Ætolia.] [Footnote 44: _Peucetian.
The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations
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When she got married, she got dowered
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And I met the man playing Baron Von Trapp, the gruff and grumpy Naval officer widower whose heart she melts.
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For another, dower was a mere life estate in one-third of the late husband’s dowable property.
A History of American Law
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Ramsey Ryker, a retired widower, is having nightmares and seeing a ghost in "Horrible Imaginings".
REVIEW: Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories edited by Charles N. Brown and Jonathan Strahan
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There's a string of more complicated provisions that affect, for example, widows, widowers and divorcees.
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In a sense, the hardliners in the military and intelligence services are no different from a widow or widower who cannot accept the death of a spouse.
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My mother would be thrown out into the streets, my sisters left disgraced and dowerless.
Into the Labyrinth
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An overweight widower in declining health, he lives alone, walks with a cane, treats himself to good cigars and talks to photographs of his dead wife.
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A quarter of lone fathers are over 50, reflecting their greater likelihood of being widowers.
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Netty no longer a dowerless bride, Dick a man of wealth without dependence upon his grandfather.
The Scarlet Feather
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War widows and widowers will receive more generous payouts, and rights are to be extended to same-sex partners, under the biggest shake-up of armed forces pensions since the 1890s.
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The apocryphal gospels uniformly insisted that Joseph was an old widower who was not Mary's husband, but her ‘guardian.’
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In some cases, this involved the dower connected with a widow's previous marriage.
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If we had known that I don't suppose we would have called him, for a widower is even worse in a congregation than a single man.
Rainbow Valley
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So she is married off as the second wife of an elderly widower in a neighbouring village.
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The wife's dower entitled her to one third of the husband's property on his death; curtesy, a similar right of the husband in the wife's property, accrued only if children had been born of the marriage.
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49 I am not aware that this vivisepulture of the widower is the custom of any race, but the fable would be readily suggested by the Sati (Suttee) - rite of the Hindus.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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When somebody dies without a will, for example, a deed of variation may ensure a widow or widower can stay in their home.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hosken subsequently, as Charles Granville, litterateur and widower, married Mrs. Caroline Leontine Fawcett at Portobello near Edinburgh.
Archive 2009-02-01
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The barber charged me enough to dower two of his daughters.
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She was also criticised for failing to caution an elderly widower whose cat was suffering from emphysema.
Times, Sunday Times
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Poor Rachel Monterey, so well born, but un-dowered.
Dearly Beloved
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As one intellectual instrument it is really ideal product to form a complete set with schlieren, shadower and other optical instruments. It can be used solely ast...
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But if you were free to – day, to – morrow, yesterday, can even I believe that you would choose a dowerless girl — you who, in your very confidence with her, weigh everything by Gain: or, choosing her, if for a moment you were false enough to your one guiding principle to do so, do I not know that your repentance and regret would surely follow.
A Christmas Carol
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Widows and widowers aren't baggage-free either, and even those stalwarts who have remained single for half a lifetime will be carrying armfuls of ingrained habits and cherished routines.
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The elderly widower keeps the food on the boil all afternoon long, stirring it now and then.
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Sherston was a widower, though he never used the word, even in his innermost heart, for to him the term connoted something slightly absurd, and he was sensitive to ridicule.
Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy
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In all his encounters with his son, the count was always conscious of his own guilt toward him for having wasted the family fortune, and so he could not be angry with him for refusing to marry an heiress and choosing the dowerless Sonya.
War and Peace
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Also stolen were a grandfather clock, which had been in the widower's family since the 19th Century, an antique mirror and a silver canteen of cutlery.
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Back in September I wrote about Al, a lonely widower sitting on his front porch.
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So Lydia, Dena and Miss Lightbody who had managed to stay on as a companion and housekeeper, largely unpaid, moved into the dower house.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Harry Penrose turned up at the dower house two days later.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Widows and widowers in South China's Guangdong Province need not provide former marriage certificates when asking for a remarriage registration, according to the Guangzhou Daily.
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Often a widower has to prove that he was dependent on his wife before he can receive benefit.
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Even if St. Joseph was an older widower, which is in doubt, his marriage to the Blessed Virgin, who at fourteen was of marriagable age, was not contrary to either Natural Law or the civil law of his country.
Jon Stewart vs. Mike Huckabee on Gay Marriage
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The widower also flew in a glider, a microlight, a jet and a balloon.
The Sun
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The comedy portrays the changing relationship between Henry Horatio Hobson, a widower and boot-shop proprietor, and his three daughters who have begun showing ‘a general increase of uppishness’.
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SO does this mean Eleanor of Aquitaine was well en-dowered with great...
Intermarriage in early medieval Britain
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He did not wait, but dowered them with a hundred thousand each, which sums lay in the Bank of Hawaii, drawing interest and awaiting their wedding day.
Chun Ah Chun
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In 'The Bride Who Suffered Ill-Fortune', a well-dowered daughter who had married into a wealthy family in a distant land, gathered her few remaining belongings and returned home in shame after her in-laws spent her dowry following their bankruptcy.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
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Consequently a widow or widower will enjoy a higher retirement income than if or she had been single when they retired.
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Benefit chiefs today apologised to a widower after claiming his wife was still living with him - five years after her death.
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Sixty Million Trillion Combinations SINCE IT WAS Thomas Trumbull who was going to act as host for the Black Widowers that month, he did not, as was his wont, arrive at the last minute, gasping for his preprandial drink.
Banquets of the Black Widowers
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Generally speaking, a widower or divorced man was three times as likely to remarry as his female counterpart throughout the period.
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O modesty revered! who can this lady be whom I behold, so richly dowered with beauty's gifts?
Iphigenia at Aulis
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Subject to her right of dower, the estate descended to his two sons.
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The next I name is Eteoclus; a master he of other kinds of excellence; young, nor richly dowered with store, yet high in honour in the Argive land.
The Suppliants
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The story that Mohammad immediately on Kinána's execution sent for her and cast his mantle over her, signifying that she was to be his own, and consummated his marriage with her, and that her dower was her freedom (_vide_ Muir, _ibid_, pp. 68-69), is not genuine and authentic.
A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885
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The dower is the price originally agreed upon with the father; and if it has been already paid (which it seldom is), she has no further claim upon the husband, though put away without sufficient ground.
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
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Similarly, it takes courage for an elderly widow and an elderly widower to get married.
Christianity Today
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Add to these resources the landed endowments of widows, whether dowers or dowries, and it can be seen that Edward's control over marriage was of key importance for his patronage programme.
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The story sounds familiar enough, widower is framed by killer, widower goes on the run.
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Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
The *wrong* Big Question. | RedState
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Since then, hundreds of would-be widows and widowers have applied for what's billed as ‘post-mortem matrimony.’
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Among them are widows and widowers, heartfree spinsters and pining bachelors.
The Bird Study Book
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During the next two years, approximately 40 club members, including widows, widowers, divorcees and unmarried men and women, continued to push for change.
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This is the obverse of the widower's more particularized loneliness, which is the 'absence of a very specific someone'.
The Times Literary Supplement
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While you might expect a decree of divorce to remove your entitlement to claim any widow's or widower's pension entitlements, this is not the case.
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That rascal has beaten me and stolen my daughter, but he gets a dowerless lass.
Marcia Schuyler
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The milkman was a widower, looking out for a wife, and Marianne, as she said, could skim cream with anybody; so it was only natural that they should have a great deal to say to each other, and that measuring the milk at that particular gate should be a slow business.
Nine Little Goslings
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Many of the residents told to replace their sewers are retired, widows and widowers and single parents who are on a fixed income, and the cost of this replacement is a financial burden.
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Widows, bereft parents, and odd widower - you could always count on seeing a few of them sitting by a grave.
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So Lydia, Dena and Miss Lightbody who had managed to stay on as a companion and housekeeper, largely unpaid, moved into the dower house.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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This play continues on and takes us through the first stage of George's life as a widower.
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She reported three horses, 48 head of cattle, 63 sheep, and an exceptional crop of 45 muid of wheat produced from three muid sown. 43 Widower Scholtz lived with his only surviving son and kept two horses, 6 head of cattle, and 50 sheep. 44 In combining their resources, Antoinetta and Joachim had a large household and reasonable, but not exceptional, resources.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
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In 1869 she was awarded by the Supreme Court of Illinois a life interest in one-third of the real estate, which met the requirements of dower rights, and in addition outright possession of one-third of the personal property.
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And now he, Ah Chun, the peasant, dowered his daughter with three hundred thousand years of such toil.
Chun Ah Chun
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Royce alleged that since the widower is the slayer of Juliana M.
In the Still of the Night
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She spoke to him of his luckless courtship of Widow Denison (a most unpleasant topic), thus giving a clue to the whole situation, in showing that Madam Winthrop resented his desertion of her in his first widowerhood, and like Falstaff, would not "undergo a sneap without reply.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England
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•Ugly Betty (ABC, tonight, 8 ET/PT) returns with a two-hour re-introduction that finds Betty adjusting to her new job, Daniel adjusting to being a widower, and Justin adjusting to high school.
Critic's Corner Weekend
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Herring-safe,) and from that portion of my life's savings I never hear again, in the form either of capital, interest, bequeathable estate, or dower to my widow.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864
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Secondly, the husband shall not be responsible to give the dower if the wife is divorced such that the husband has not touched her or her dower had not been fixed.