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

It seemed that when he was only twenty-three he had made a mariage de convenance to please his father.

From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie

The opening chapter is a picture of a lively Parisian ménage, such as many doubtless exist; a striking example of a mariage de convenance, or mis-match.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various

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

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

All that he has of good within him is cramped by convenance and fashion; for he who never feared the chance of fortune, trembles, with a coward's dread, before the sneer of the world.

From Nuts and Nutcrackers by Lever, Charles James