convenance
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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 would be nothing worse than a mariage de convenance," said Uncle William.
From The Hero by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
Of course I shall have to marry one day or other, but I'm afraid it will be what the French call a mariage de convenance.
From By Right of Conquest A Novel by Arthur Hornblow
"A mariage de convenance," Sturling remarked with a smile, as he saw me inspecting the labels.
From The Sixth Sense A Novel by Stephen McKenna
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 relief to his sense of les convenances when a fourth person entered the drawing-room.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
He waited until after nine o'clock, feeling that some regard must be paid to les convenances, even on such an important occasion as this.
From A Black Adonis by Linn Boyd Porter
This breach of the convenances has excited much comment in the fashionable world to which they belong.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, May 17, 1890. by Various
It is of the convenances, and equally is it of her own melancholy necessities, that this poor Madame retires for a season to sorrow in a suitable seclusion in the company of her sympathetic cat.
From Lords of the Housetops Thirteen Cat Tales by Carl Van Vechten
But in the case of a studio, les convenances are not so rigid but that one may look at pictures unchaperoned.”
From The Secret of Lonesome Cove by Samuel Hopkins Adams
