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It was a relief to his sense of les convenances when a fourth person entered the drawing-room.

From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

But in the case of a studio, les convenances are not so rigid but that one may look at pictures unchaperoned.”

From The Secret of Lonesome Cove by Adams, Samuel Hopkins

It showed a disregard of les convenances which good society is the first to resent.

From Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography by Oliphant, Laurence

The presence of Mrs. Anthony preserved the convenances; and, after long cogitation, I had formally requested Eunice Trevor to stay on, in her old capacity of paid companion to Betty.

From In Jeopardy by Sutphen, Van Tassel

But the social convenances are not to be measured by Oldchester's provincial ideas as to their strangeness.

From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 by Trollope, Frances Eleanor