convenance

Example Sentences

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It is equally obvious to anyone who knows Philip that he is not the type to submit meekly to the dictates of a dynastic manage de convenance.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was making a mariage de convenance, but there had been another man on the lists, a younger man than himself, and that had added a most pleasing zest to the pursuit.

From Studies in love and in terror by Lowndes, Marie Belloc

While in Martinique, Jerome Bonaparte said to a former resident of Baltimore, "Ah! il me faut une mariage de convenance."

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various

There had been no suggestion in their many t�te-�-t�tes that they were about to embark upon a mariage de convenance.

From The Golden Web by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

If this be regarded as a veritable mariage de convenance, it should suit you admirably and the general as well.”

From Louisiana Lou A Western Story by Winter, William West