Ignorant who were my parents, doubtful whether the alliance might not prove disgraceful to him — portionless, except for the bounty of my benefactress — unclaimed, unacknowledged by any one; how could I hope to be received into her family under these disadvantageous circumstances? ❋ Unknown (2008)
Yet such conduct, however unusual, was equally inconsistent with any sinister intentions; since the sacrifice of a large sum of money, and the declaration of his views upon a portionless young lady of family, could scarcely be the preface to any unfair practice. ❋ Unknown (2008)
She had often protested, in their former conflicts, that had Cecilia been portionless, her objections had been less than to an estate so conditioned; and that to give to her son a woman so exalted in herself, she would have conquered the mere opposition of interest, though that of family honour she held invincible. ❋ Unknown (2008)
As for the poor, portionless girls, they may die or go mad, without a soul to pity them. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I owe it to myself, that I, a friendless, portionless, girl, with a blight upon my name, should not give your friends reason to suspect that I had sordidly yielded to your first passion, and fastened myself, a clog, on all your hopes and projects. ❋ Unknown (2007)
As it was, if the child was a daughter she would be portionless. ❋ Unknown (2006)
LITTLE too good to play crown pints at cards, and never get paid when we won; or to go dangling after the portionless gals, or amuse ourselves with slops and penny-wist along with the old ladies. ❋ Unknown (2006)
George, always the champion of his regiment, rose immensely in the opinion of the youth of the corps, by his gallantry in marrying this portionless young creature, and by his choice of such a pretty kind partner. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Taking brighter views, she hoped that upon the whole this yoking of the young fellow with her, a portionless woman and his senior, would not greatly endanger his career. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Yet there was really nothing wonderful in this: it is part of the generous nature of a bachelor to be not indisposed to forgive a portionless sweetheart who, by marrying elsewhere, has deprived him of the bliss of being obliged to marry her himself. ❋ Unknown (2006)
"I would rather be a serf on the land of a poor and portionless man than rule over all the dead who have come to naught." ❋ Unknown (2006)
It would be unjust to you to speak of your having chosen a portionless girl, for I feel that you know her worth; I am sure you know her worth. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Other figures, such as the dog, or the marriage of the portionless maiden, or the drones and wasps in the eighth and ninth books, also form links of connexion in long passages, or are used to recall previous discussions. ❋ Unknown (2006)
She did not look upon that marriage as a mistake, — having even up to this day a consciousness that it had been the business of her life, as a portionless girl, to obtain maintenance and position at the expense of suffering and servility. ❋ Unknown (2004)
These had consisted chiefly of the persecutions to which he had been subjected by the mothers of portionless young ladies. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Highbury, which he had always longed for — enough to marry a woman as portionless even as Miss Taylor, and to live according to the wishes of his own friendly and social disposition. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Had he not everything which fathers want for portionless daughters, and uncles for dependant nieces? ❋ Unknown (2004)
Being a most unreasonable man he conceived a bitter dislike to poor Larry, who, at any rate, was truly in love, and was not looking too high in desiring to marry the portionless daughter of the attorney. ❋ Unknown (2004)
