How To Use Jointure In A Sentence
-
Neither she nor I were charged with any offense, but while I was left homeless and destitute, she was granted control of her jointure lands and allowed to live at Chelsea Manor.
Secrets of the Tudor Court
-
Harriet — Augustus — let me intreat, let me insist upon it, that my father be immediately assured my ready — my officious consent waits to sign any deed, however binding, which shall give liberty to the whole of the jointured estate.
Vicissitudes in Genteel Life
-
He has lately lost much more than he can pay, at the gaming table, and this savage wretch, who thought to have drawn you into his den, was not only to have paid the debt of honor, as (by a total inversion of words) it is generally called, but likewise to have given a release of the jointured estate in
Vicissitudes in Genteel Life
-
The artificial limb, in a white sock and brown flat shoe, was bound in a heavy material like canvas and ended in an ugly jointure where it was attached to the stump.
-
Most of the great families of England have a secondary residence, which is called a jointure-house: let the new house be of that kind.’
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
-
We must destroy them and we must form jointures and bring the best teachers and the best equipment under one roof.
-
'T is like a discrowned queen, for her jointure is small, and she is now no more consequence to his party, so his death has struck away her worldly glory at a blow.
The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty
-
But from 1633 onward it became the anchor of the Jenkin family in Kent; and though passed on from brother to brother, held in shares between uncle and nephew, burthened by debts and jointures, and at least once sold and bought in again, it remains to this day in the hands of the direct line.
Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
-
It is however whispered about, that she has dearly earned this affectionate treatment, by giving up her right in the jointured estate, and thereby rendering herself entirely pennyless, except his lordship has gratitude sufficient to induce him to determine upon laying by a yearly sum for her future support.
Vicissitudes in Genteel Life
-
(though not till various other means had been proposed and rejected) Mr. Maynard hinted a supposition that it was possible your affectionate duty might induce you to liberate the jointured estate.
Vicissitudes in Genteel Life
-
In short, she is quite a common woman; has no fortune at all, as one may say, only a small jointure incumbered; and is much in debt.
Pamela
-
Brush and Rimbothorn ganged up in a rather pointless jointure to try and drench her.
-
Her lord has made her sole executrix, and added what little douceurs he could to her jointure, which is but
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
-
England have a secondary residence, which is called a jointure-house: let the new house be of that kind. '
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
-
-- There were several well-jointured widows in the county where he resided, and also young ladies of family and fortune, but he never made the least overtures to any of them, and behaved with that indifference to the sex, that it was the opinion of all who conversed with him, that he never designed to marry again, when at the same time, he thought of nothing more than to find a partner in that state, such as promised to prove what he desired.
Life's Progress Through The Passions Or, The Adventures of Natura
-
The unmarried and widows often engaged in litigation related to marriage settlements, jointures, uses and trusts.
-
Because understanding what ``jointures' meant reversed the polarity of the whole poem.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
-
Collyweston in Northamptonshire had been the principal seat of Elizabeth's grandmother, Margaret Beaufort and then had passed down to Henry Fitzroy, duke of Richmond and, briefly, to Anne Boleyn as part of her jointure. 74 It was very likely in disrepair by the time Elizabeth received it since there was no socially or politically significant person living in it since Richmond's death in 1536.
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
-
Most of the great families in England have a secondary residence, which is called a jointure-house: let the new house be of that kind. '
Life of Johnson
-
There was one circumstance which, though he did not appeal to it, had much weight with me in his favour, and that was the word jointure in the taylor's letter, whereas my aunt never had been married, and this
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
-
I wonder if she will have the use of her jointure, now that Sir Thomas is dead.
Secrets of the Tudor Court
-
Danvers would not be very sorry to hear of the death of this charming creature, as he might then dispose of the little jointured estate in Derbyshire.
Vicissitudes in Genteel Life
-
“There was one circumstance which, though he did not appeal to it, had much weight with me in his favour, and that was the word jointure in the taylor’s letter, whereas my aunt never had been married, and this Mr. Fitzpatrick well knew. —
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
-
Through an unusual jointure, announced in October, it became the dance programming division of the Trust.