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

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

From Famous Women: George Sand by Thomas, Bertha

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

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

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