dowried

All went to the poor, and evil women were dowried by him that they might cease from evil in honorable marriage.

Peter the Hermit A Tale of Enthusiasm Daniel A. Goodsell

The former indulges in sumptuous feasts, but he does not collect around his table men who can only give him wit in return for his dinner; he rather seeks out men whose purses are as long as his own, from amongst whose daughters he may select a well-dowried mate for his dunderheaded son.

Historic China, and other sketches Herbert Allen Giles 1890

I could not -- an adventurer almost penniless -- I _would_ not presume to claim that richly dowried hand.

The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850

The more I reflect upon it in my mind: if any person has a dowried _wife_, sleep has no charms for him.

The Captiva and the Mostellaria Titus Maccius Plautus 1847

"At least no king hath daughters so dowried," answered Warwick; "and though I disdain for myself the hard vassalage of a throne, yet if the channel of our blood must pass into other streams, into nothing meaner than the veins of royalty should it merge."

The Last of the Barons — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

"At least no king hath daughters so dowried," answered Warwick; "and though I disdain for myself the hard vassalage of a throne, yet if the channel of our blood must pass into other streams, into nothing meaner than the veins of royalty should it merge."

The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

The lines "Friend to the friendless" &c. which you may think "rudely disbranched" from the Chatterton will patch in with the Man of Ross, where they were once quite at Home, with 2 more which I recollect "and o'er the dowried virgin's snowy cheek bad bridal love suffuse his blushes meek!" very beautiful.

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805

"Friend to the friendless" ultimately had a place both in that poem and in the Monody, but the couplet "and o'er the dowried virgin" was never replaced in either.

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805

Listen, then, my excellent friends, to the discussion which was very frequently held by me and Scipio on the subject of friendship; altho he indeed used to say that nothing was more difficult than that friendship should continue to the end of life; for it often happened either that the same course was not expedient to both parties or that they held different views of politics; he remarked also that the characters of men often changed, in some cases by adversity, in others by old age becoming oppressive; and he derived an authority for such notions from a comparison with early life, because the strongest attachments of boys are constantly laid aside with the prætexta; even if they should maintain it to manhood, yet sometimes it is broken off by rivalry, for a dowried wife, or some other advantage which they can not both attain.

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome Various 1887