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

Neither the climate nor "the freezing social convenance" of England pleased Mme.

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

But it was really a mariage d'amour, not merely de convenance.

From Glories of Spain by Wood, Charles W. (William)

He had given her to understand that a marriage de convenance quite met with his approval, that in his day girls married to please their parents.

From The Trail of Conflict by Loring, Emilie Baker

Marriages de convenance are when a parvenu barters his gold for good blood, or where an ancienne princesse mends her fortune with a nouveau riche, profound indifference, meanwhile, on each side.

From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida