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The dog's name was undescriptive of his person, which was obviously the result of a singular series of mesalliances.

From Penrod by Tarkington, Booth

She belongs to a nation which abhors bastards and mesalliances.

From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann

There are these mistakes sometimes—these mesalliances of clay and spirit.

From The Doctor's Wife by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

Yet it was just at this period that numerous mesalliances took place.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav

Men of high rank had ere now married their slaves, and the corrupted society of Rome had winked at mesalliances which, in the days of the republic, would not have been tolerated.

From Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. by Various