mariage de convenance

Example Sentences

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Ibsen is in favor of the mariage de convenance, which suppresses, without favor, the absurdity of love-matches.

From Henrik Ibsen by Gosse, Edmund

What the deuce does a mariage de convenance mean but all this, and are not such sober Hymeneal torches more satisfactory often than the most brilliant love matches that ever flamed and burnt out?

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace

I can't bear to think of any one so lovely doing anything so sordid, so miserable, as making a mariage de convenance.'

From Franklin Kane by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas

I ask some one whom I can love; love better than all the world,—not the /mariage de convenance/, not the /mariage de raison/, but the /mariage d'amour/.

From What Will He Do with It? — Volume 06 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

He was making a mariage de convenance, but there had been another man on the lists, a younger man than himself, and that had added a most pleasing zest to the pursuit.

From Studies in love and in terror by Lowndes, Marie Belloc