mariage de convenance

Example Sentences

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It was a marriage of the heart, you see, and did not want the trappings with which they gild that bitter pill so often swallowed now-a-days—a "mariage de convenance."

From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

I ask some one whom I can love; love better than all the world,—not the /mariage de convenance/, not the /mariage de raison/, but the /mariage d'amour/.

From What Will He Do with It? — Volume 06 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

It was not a mariage de convenance; the young people had chosen freely.

From Famous Women: George Sand by Thomas, Bertha

She said she preferred a mariage de convenance to a love match, because it generally turned out better.

From Our Village by Mitford, Mary Russell

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