mariage de convenance
Example Sentences
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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 Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
Could I not picture to you the mariage de convenance in America?
From Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out by Annie H Ryder
Mine is, if you like, a mariage de convenance, in the sense that Gerald is a poor man and cannot marry unless he marries money.
From Franklin Kane by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Later on he effectually thwarted Zygmunt's desire to join in the rising of 1830, and by his persistence forced him into a reluctant mariage de convenance.
From Kościuszko A Biography by Monica M. (Monica Mary) Gardner
It was a mariage de convenance, such as all the great world is accustomed to.
From Rezanov by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
