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 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

The opening chapter is a picture of a lively Parisian ménage, such as many doubtless exist; a striking example of a mariage de convenance, or mis-match.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various

He would have to teach her that snapping eyes and quarrelsome speech were out of place in a mariage de convenance such as they were making.

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various

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