Sentence examples similar to given as dowry from inspiring English sources

Four years later, it was given as a dowry of his daughter Aleksandra, who married Hetman Jan Klemens Branicki, thus passing into the hands of the Branicki family.

The album had no liner notes to speak of so I had only the vaguest idea that she was singing a daughter-in-law's praise song for a wedding, celebrating the cattle being given as a dowry, the bridegroom entering and the new in-laws that must be shown respect.

Given as part of a dowry to King Charles II in 1662, it became a darling of the Empire.

By the 1670s, The Long-Nos'd Lass was a popular song, relating in detail how a tailor and a miller courted a woman whose "visage was perfectly just like a Sow" in the hope of securing her dowry (given as £17,000, not the £40,000 of A Certaine Relation).

The symbolism of the dowry, originally one of allegiance – seen as a way of joining families, tribes and ethnicities – is now often only a financial exchange, and in his series L'Essentiel est Invisible pour les Yeux, Akpo presents objects given as part of his own grandmother's dowry – including pearls, mirror and bottles of gin.

Before, he said, a bride's family would give the bridegroom whatever it could afford as dowry; it was seen as a gift.

In the city-state of Charondas' laws, an epikleros had to be given a dowry if her nearest kin did not wish to marry her.

The giving of dowry is a legal offence, but many families maintain the custom nonetheless.