In the country of Wild Oats, wit and humor are held in sufficient estimation to win you forgiveness for what fools call a misalliance, and what I call a princely marriage. From Wordnik.com. [Laboulaye's Fairy Book] Reference
Especially when the match is something of a misalliance. From Wordnik.com. [A Christmas Bride]
Later the misalliance of the princess was cautiously touched upon. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
If Sun hoped for much from this misalliance, he was surely disappointed. From Wordnik.com. [Empresses and Consorts] Reference
They had regarded Ned Holiday's marriage to Laura a misalliance, he recalled. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wings A Romance of Youth] Reference
Sweet left the distinct impression that the entire stint at Lasky was a misalliance. From Wordnik.com. [Empire of Dreams] Reference
Manchester was the first misalliance which the Florac family had made for long long years. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
I never forgot my proud birthright, and well understood the danger of a European alliance -- or misalliance. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.] Reference
Mother was from a distinguished military Prussian family and her marriage to my father was regarded as a misalliance. From Wordnik.com. [The Lighthouse]
The marriage was meant to make up for the marital misalliance of her mother, Ludovica, the daughter of Ludwig I of Bavaria. From Wordnik.com. [The Lonely Empress: The life of Elisabeth of Austria] Reference
The persistent jittering and rolling of the frame line was the result of the misalliance between positive and negative stocks. From Wordnik.com. [Empire of Dreams] Reference
The count, understanding it as an allusion to a misalliance of one of his ancestors with the daughter of a blacksmith, is thrown into. From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
If she had a good fortune and kept a good cook, people would even go and dine with her in spite of the misalliance, and actually treat Mr. Piozzi with civility. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
Like Strether, Swann confuses aesthetic pleasure with a judgment of value, and he pays for the error with a ruinous misalliance in which deceit will play a part. From Wordnik.com. [The Savage Lessons of Pretty Pictures] Reference
His younger aunt, Louise-Elizabeth, who enjoyed to the full all the pleasures of modern life, had already profited by her father's death to make a rich misalliance. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She looked so beautiful that I doubted whether she was pure Timson; surely she was the result of some more exotic misalliance, a moment of infidelity, perhaps, by her mother. From Wordnik.com. [Rumpole and the Reign of Terror]
Ramparts 'misalliance with the Panthers and Hayden. From Wordnik.com. [City Journal] Reference
Would either be happy in such a horrible misalliance?. From Wordnik.com. [Tarzan of the Apes] Reference
There could be no happiness for either of us in such a misalliance. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Trembled] Reference
This is not the language of one who wished to apologise for a misalliance. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings] Reference
"I believe that Lady Flora is little likely to contract such a misalliance.". From Wordnik.com. [The Disowned — Complete] Reference
It is simply a matter of choice on the part of every individual who forms a misalliance. From Wordnik.com. ["The Negro's Place in History"] Reference
I suppose that her father could desire to enforce a marriage that is almost a misalliance. From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
It does not try to show what manner of persons the children of the misalliance of-v. 2 were. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
On the good side, this misalliance provided the shop's customers with many cliffhanging tales. From Wordnik.com. [Crosscut] Reference
But once they do hit the streets and start cracking the case, they're a disastrous misalliance. From Wordnik.com. [Boston.com Top Stories] Reference
So, perhaps, Mrs. Carlyle might have put it, though one cannot but feel that honors were even in that tragic misalliance. From Wordnik.com. ["The Woman Behind the Man"] Reference
If you were to marry the son of an English manufacturer of awffice furniture, your friends would consider it a misalliance. From Wordnik.com. [Act II] Reference
And then he has no way of knowing when the name divorced from its first thing is carrying on a misalliance with some other thing. From Wordnik.com. [Public Opinion] Reference
It was in vain, however, that they remonstrated on the misalliance he was about to make; he was not to be swayed from his determination. From Wordnik.com. [Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey] Reference
A misalliance all right, but not as they reckoned it. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wings A Romance of Youth] Reference
She shall never compromise herself, nor us, by any such misalliance. ". From Wordnik.com. [His Heart's Queen] Reference
"Don't be angry, -- all's fair in love as in war; and L'Estrange will live yet to thank you for saving him from such a misalliance. From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
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