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Of course, mésalliances appeal to people, because they always suggest marriages for love, and novelists of all countries have worked this theme for all it is worth.

From Rambles in Womanland by O'Rell, Max

This is why mésalliances, as a rule, turn out to be very unhappy marriages.

From Her Royal Highness Woman by O'Rell, Max

Oh, there are no mésalliances in this house.

From Abb? Aubain and Mosaics by M?rim?e, Prosper

The punishment for such offence to the most sacred law of Atvatabar, although terrible, was powerless to prevent such mésalliances of souls.

From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by Bradshaw, William Richard

The fear of mésalliances was ever in his mind, and furiously would he drive away the village pariahs when they came slinking round the house, with lolling tongues.

From Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 by Pickthall, Marmaduke William