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Meanings of marriageable girls in English

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Usage of marriageable girls in English
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The fewer the marriageable girls, the higher their market value.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870
2
We are no marriageable girls on the lookout for husbands.
Napoleon and Blücher: An Historical Novel
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A certain coquetry, he says, is allowable in marriageable girls; amusement is their principal business.
The Eve of the French Revolution
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The third group consisted of young marriageable girls.
Crescent and Iron Cross
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There the marriageable girls were afflicted with goiter.
The Bontoc Igorot
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He had respect for the married state, and thought only of some pretty marriageable girls in Indianapolis.
Sister Carrie: A Novel
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But not girls-notpoor, miserable, marriageable girls!
The House of Mirth
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Besides, Kromitzki lowers Aniela in my eyes, stains her, and brings her down to the level of marriageable girls.
Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland
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Therefore the fathers send their daughters with presents, maidens of the villages, all marriageable girls, to ask for rainfall.
The Great Taboo
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There are no marriageable girls in any of these three ato now, and the small girls occupy near-by o′-lâg.
The Bontoc Igorot
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Once a month we dress the marriageable girls in their best, and take them for a walk in the street.
Italian Journeys
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Sundays like this turned the churchyard into courting grounds for marriageable girls and young men looking for wives or diversions.
The warmth of other suns: the epic story of america's great migr...
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It was usually something inane like the latest perfume from Paris, but it also involved various marriageable girls causing Lord Maccon to balk.
Soulless
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In a selected New England village in 1890, he says, there were forty marriageable girls between the ages of 20 and 35.
Applied Eugenics
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