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

Our system is, in fact, gradually becoming a clumsy compromise between the mariage de convenance and the mariage d'amour, with most of the disadvantages, and very few of the advantages, of either.

From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert

All that he has of good within him is cramped by convenance and fashion; for he who never feared the chance of fortune, trembles, with a coward’s dread, before the sneer of the world.

From Nuts and Nutcrackers by Lever, Charles James

It is sure to be so in these mariages de convenance, where there is no question of love.

From Saint Michael A Romance by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

"It would be nothing worse than a mariage de convenance," said Uncle William.

From The Hero by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)