Once she became of marriageable age, her father sought to secure her a sound financial match.

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Touring her district, she finds people anxiously asking her if she knows of any marriageable girls.

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The popular understanding was that the only reason for a marriageable woman to take a job was to find a husband.

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If they do, marriageable men will come out of the woodwork.

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Antonio (Jeremy Irons) seems already to be mourning the loss not just of his ships at sea but of his friend Bassanio (Joseph Fiennes) to the wealthy and marriageable Portia (Lynn Collins).

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