mariage de convenance

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

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

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

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 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? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

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