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Marriage Bargain: Women and Dowries in European History (1985).
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Marriage Bargain: Women and Dowries in European History (1985).
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Dowries were frequently given by the guilds to poor girls so as to enable them to become nuns or to marry.
The Social Order Before and After the Protestant Reformation 2007
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Dowries increasingly involve long lists of consumer goods.
The Wedding Shortage 2007
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Dowries that paid a hefty commission to the Lovely Girl Shaadi Agency.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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Dowries that paid a hefty commission to the Lovely Girl _Shaadi_ Agency.
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Dowries for all your daughters in your share alone!
The Burning City Larry Niven 2000
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Dowries are paid to prospective husbands - but then that is still the case in Uthei's Britain, is it not?
Last Sword Of Power Gemmell, David 1988
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Surely, at this Day, with us of Europe, the Vantage of Strength at Sea (which is one of the Principall Dowries of this Kingdome of Greate Brittaine) is Great; Both because Most of the
Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale
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Dowries had been swallowed up in the soil, and the Gracchan law was confiscating personal as well as real property, taking the wife's fortune as well as the husband's.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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