slenderly-portioned

Updated: May 18, 2025

My Lord had himself spoken to him, like my Lady expecting him to be enchanted at the prospect of so good a match for his slenderly-portioned daughter, for Dethick was a fair estate, and the Babington family, though not ennobled, fully equal to a younger branch of the Talbots.

Charlotte Mary Yonge - Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland