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
If this be regarded as a veritable mariage de convenance, it should suit you admirably and the general as well.”
From Louisiana Lou A Western Story by William West Winter
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
Scarcely any of these things are called into requisition during the courtship, and this is how mariages de convenance often turn out better than love-matches.
From Friend Mac Donald by Max O'Rell
However much the Americans may wish to deny it, I am inclined to think that there are more marriages of convenance in the United States than in most other countries.
From Diary in America, Series Two by Frederick Marryat
Before the world due regard must be paid to les convenances; of course the cause of our separation must never be mentioned between ourselves.
From The Eichhofs A Romance by Moritz von Reichenbach
There he will surrender himself to the existing order and convenances of society, since, so soon as he enters the salon, he conducts himself strictly by the rules of etiquette.
From The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt
After apologizing for thus approaching me and throwing all the convenances to the wind, she seemed to be highly interested in my welfare, and very inquisitive concerning the reasons that had brought me to Bulgaria.
From The Golden Face A Great 'Crook' Romance by William Le Queux
The presence of Mrs. Anthony preserved the convenances; and, after long cogitation, I had formally requested Eunice Trevor to stay on, in her old capacity of paid companion to Betty.
From In Jeopardy by Van Tassel Sutphen
But the social convenances are not to be measured by Oldchester's provincial ideas as to their strangeness.
From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 by Frances Eleanor Trollope
