Your protector had seen with pain this marriage of his elder brother with a portionless girl.

I would rather he a serf on the land of a poor and portionless man than rule over all the dead who have come to nought.

In Sanskrit, Ekanamsha means "the single, portionless one" and it is a name of the new moon.

When eighteen years of age, he married the portionless daughter of Franco, named Mazzal-Ṭob, a proceeding unusual at that time.

Adolphus rashly proposes marriage to portionless Lily, who accepts him, to the dismay of John Eames.

He hoped, after that, to fix the guilt on her, but it proved unexpectedly difficult, since, as the old man's portionless granddaughter, she had obviously no motive for the crime.

Be assured, if the youth were true, his father, who is one of the proudest nobles about the court, would prohibit his union with one so humble and portionless as thou.

Robert, having, on the contrary, had a portionless wife and two daughters, had to content himself with an income of £300 a year and a dingy residence in Austin Friars.

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.

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.

Being childless, he bequeathed part of his fortune to a family foundation, which provided dowries for portionless girls of the Fränkel family; but the greater part of his wealth he left to charitable institutions, especially to the erection of a Jewish seminary which bears his name.

Other figures, such as the dog in the second, third, and fourth books, or the marriage of the portionless maiden in the sixth book, or the drones and wasps in the eighth and ninth books, also form links of connection in long passages, or are used to recall previous discussions.

He had, by that time, realised an easy competence--enough to secure the purchase of a little estate adjoining 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.