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

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 Hornblow, Arthur

Much of this corruption evidently arises from the iniquitous practice of mariage de convenance, so often speculated in by most match-making mothers, in the two greatest capitals of Europe. 

From The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon by Risk Allah, Habeeb

He would have to teach her that snapping eyes and quarrelsome speech were out of place in a mariage de convenance such as they were making.

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various

I shuddered at the idea of a mere mariage de convenance.

From Glories of Spain by Wood, Charles W. (William)