The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.
The arrows are from her dowry.
Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.
A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]
Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.
The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.
I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry. [Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.]
Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.
Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.