"Dowerless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... indeed called me, O mother! and I desire only to become a faithful servant of His tabernacle forever. I pray, good Mere Esther, for your intercession with the Mere de la Nativite. The venerable Lady Superior used to say we were dowerless brides, we of the house ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby
... song sometimes, touching the air upon an ancient-looking guitar they had found with the ghostly things in the garret,—a quaint old instrument, marked E. M. on the back, and supposed to have belonged to a certain Elizabeth Mascarene, before mentioned in connection with a work of art,—a fair, dowerless lady, who smiled and sung and faded away, unwedded, a hundred years ago, as dowerless ladies, not a few, are smiling and singing and fading now,—God grant each of them His love,—and one human ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... hurried trip to Marshmead. He had not spoken to her then. She had passed the station as he was driving away, and he had felt a pang he deadened with some anodyne of grim endurance, to see how youth could wilt into a dowerless middle age. ...
— Country Neighbors • Alice Brown
... thou lov'st, That like thy body is, and thou her head, For foes are round her set in valley and plain, And instant is the battle." Then the Saint: "The battle for my People is not there, With them, low down, but here upon this height From them apart, with God. This Mount of God Dowerless and bare I quit not till I die; And dying, I will leave a Man Elect To keep its keys, and pray my prayer, and name Dying in turn, his heir, successive line, Even till the ...
— The Legends of Saint Patrick • Aubrey de Vere |
