Dower

Beauty carries its dower in its face.

[…] how features are abroad, / I am skill-less of; but, by my modesty,— / The jewel in my dower,—I would not wish / Any companion in the world but you […]

In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a-piece.

How great, how plentiful, how rich a dower!

Man in his primeval dower arrayed.

For though God had bestowed on her the rare dower of a fine mind, He had not added to it the much more common, though infinitely less precious gift, of a quick intellect.

He had married a lady well educated and softly nurtured, but not dowered with worldly wealth.

It was nothing of this earth, but a piece of the great outside; and as such dowered with outside properties and obedient to outside laws.