dowering

It was a good thing that he had a ready source of income from his wool and mutton; he'd need it, dowering six daughters.

Brightly Burning Lackey, Mercedes 2000

He was married, she learned — to one Cuspia, daughter of a publicanus, and his sister was married to Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, the younger brother of the Pontifex Maximus; dowering his sister had been a staggering expense, one he had only managed to achieve by marrying his Cuspia, whose father was enormously wealthy.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

Popes against all their enemies, imperial and barbarian, and dowering them with cities and provinces, laid the basis of their temporal sovereignty, which continued for more than a thousand years (until 1870).

General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

Each night the streets were illuminated with colored lights, and fireworks blazed and roared against the velvet sky at intervals, dowering the ancient trees and temple-tops with momentary splendor.

Guns of the Gods Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1921

Now that Trina had made her great winning, Mr. Sieppe no longer saw the necessity of dowering her further, especially when he considered the enormous expense to which he would be put by the voyage of his own family.

McTeague 1920

Each night the streets were illuminated with colored lights, and fireworks blazed and roared against the velvet sky at intervals, dowering the ancient trees and temple-tops with momentary splendor.

Guns of the Gods Talbot Mundy 1909

How many are the crimes of which they have made virtues merely by dowering them with the word "national"?

Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904

The illustrious matches made by her sisters had, in fact, been secured by extravagant dowering, which had left nothing for poor Lady Constance except a miserable three hundred pounds a year, at which paltry figure no man had as yet offered to take her.

The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage George Bernard Shaw 1903

When the pledges for his baptism had been given at the sacred font, and he and Faith had become one, dowering each other with salvation, the lady who had given assent for him, beheld in her sleep the wonderful fruit which would one day come of him, and of his heirs.

Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 1902

Those two were neither of them conscious of that tune, too absorbed in their emotions; and yet, quietly, it was bringing something to the girl's figure like the dowering of scent that the sun brings to a flower.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900