All 10 Uses

dowry
in
The Brothers Karamazov
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To attach himself to a good family and obtain a dowry was an alluring prospect.†
Chpt 1 *
Although the family accepted the event pretty quickly and apportioned the runaway bride her dowry, the husband and wife began to lead a most disorderly life, and there were everlasting scenes between them.†
Chpt 1
The little village and the rather fine town house which formed part of her dowry he did his utmost for a long time to transfer to his name, by means of some deed of conveyance.†
Chpt 1
But he had not reckoned on a dowry; what allured him was the remarkable beauty of the innocent girl, above all her innocent appearance, which had a peculiar attraction for a vicious profligate, who had hitherto admired only the coarser types of feminine beauty.†
Chpt 1
As he had received no dowry with his wife, and had, so to speak, taken her "from the halter," he did not stand on ceremony with her.†
Chpt 1
That's a dowry for you.†
Chpt 1
He'll carry off Katerina Ivanovna, for whom he is languishing, and pocket her dowry of sixty thousand.†
Chpt 2
I referred to her being rich and having a dowry while I was only a stuck-up beggar!†
Chpt 3
They were of agreeable appearance and lively character, and though every one knew they would have no dowry, they attracted all the young men of fashion to their grandfather's house.†
Chpt 9
Did you know, Ilusha, he is just married, got a dowry of a thousand roubles, and his bride's a regular fright of the first rank and the last degree.†
Chpt 10

Definitions:

(1) (dowry)
in some societies, money or property given by a woman's family to the husband at marriage

or less formally: money or property a bride brings to a marriage
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
More rarely, in some societies, a dowry may be given by a husband to his new wife. It can also refer to money paid upon entry to a monastic order.