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

He had given her to understand that a marriage de convenance quite met with his approval, that in his day girls married to please their parents.

From The Trail of Conflict by Loring, Emilie Baker

As a Frenchman, I know it scarcely becomes me to throw the first stone at my neighbour for this: France is admittedly a country where mariages de convenance are common.

From Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society by Allyn, Jack

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

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 Marryat, Frederick