cowering

Example Sentences

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“To help in raising and dowering her three daughters, as they are soon to be of marriaging age.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

In Bergamo itself he founded an establishment named' La Pieta,' for the good purpose of dowering and marrying poor girls.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

Laetitia had long thirsted both for a dowering money-bag at her girdle, and the wings to fly abroad over lands which had begun to seem fabulous in her starved imagination.

From The Egoist by Meredith, George

The old conception of a world soul is achieving a new lease of life, and is dowering science with the human interest and the mystic glow it so sorely lacks.

From Nature Mysticism by Mercer, John Edward

Napoleon disposed at his will of crowns and appanages, elevating or dethroning kings, magnificently dowering the companions of his military life and the servants of his policy.

From World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France by Guizot, M. (François)