mariage de convenance
Example Sentences
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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
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
Our system is, in fact, gradually becoming a clumsy compromise between the mariage de convenance and the mariage d'amour, with most of the disadvantages, and very few of the advantages, of either.
From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert
I shuddered at the idea of a mere mariage de convenance.
From Glories of Spain by Wood, Charles W. (William)
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 Ryder, Annie H
