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

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

"A mariage de convenance," Sturling remarked with a smile, as he saw me inspecting the labels.

From The Sixth Sense A Novel by McKenna, Stephen

Marriages de convenance are when a parvenu barters his gold for good blood, or where an ancienne princesse mends her fortune with a nouveau riche, profound indifference, meanwhile, on each side.

From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida