mariage de convenance

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"It would be nothing worse than a mariage de convenance," said Uncle William.

From The Hero by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

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

If this be regarded as a veritable mariage de convenance, it should suit you admirably and the general as well.”

From Louisiana Lou A Western Story by Winter, William West

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

It won't be like an ordinary marriage, a young married couple and so on, nor a mariage de convenance, either, in the ordinary sense.

From Love's Shadow by Leverson, Ada