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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

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

Think you there would be no more marriages de convenance if we were to give the benefit of our experience to the world?

From Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad

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 Lucia Gilbert Calhoun

Neither the climate nor "the freezing social convenance" of England pleased Mme.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various

There are convenances even in this kind of life.

From The Sixth Sense A Novel by Stephen McKenna

The girls secure their window and pelt their black-bearded Professor in the street below without dread of a scolding on the "convenances."

From Stray Studies from England and Italy by John Richard Greene

But the worst of all was the sudden respect she entertained for les convenances.

From Jack 1877 by Mary Neal Sherwood

Thirteenthly.—The bad man who attends to the convenances of religious observance, only puts polish on muddy boots.

From Happy-Thought Hall by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand

She, therefore, contrives, without transgressing the higher convenances, to banish all ceremonial stiffness from her parties, and to import in its place an atmosphere of cheerful gaiety and musical refinement.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 28 1890 by Various