mesalliance

• “It was an abominable thing that my grandmother should have been disinherited because she made what they called a mesalliance, though there was nothing to be said against her husband except that he was a Polish refugee who gave lessons for his bread. ”

  Middlemarch

• “Instances of such 'mesalliance' would be as rare as those of intermarriage between the Anglo-Saxon emigrants and the”

  The Coming Race

• “Barring her obscure birth, Edna is as worthy of Gordon as any dainty pet of fashion who lounges in Clara Inge's parlors, and I shall take occasion to tell her so if ever she hints at 'mesalliance' in my presence. ”

  St. Elmo

• “M. de Negrepelisse maintained sufficient of the tradition of birth to dread a mesalliance.”

  Two Poets

• “If she made a mesalliance, the favor would be enormous, only to be granted to vast wealth, or conspicuous services, or very powerful influence.”

  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

• “An ancestress of ours made a mesalliance in the reign of your King”

  Burlesques

• “Fred was considered to have made rather a mesalliance by the ladies of his family, whose grandfather had been in a Charity School, and who were allied through the husbands with some of the best blood in”

  Vanity Fair

• “The sympathy of unlikeness might lead the scion of some family, hollow and fungous with antiquity, and as yet unmarked by a mesalliance, to be won over by her story; but the antipathy of resemblance would be ineradicable.”

  The Hand of Ethelberta

• “And I am willing to admit, as I have admitted before, that the undoubted advantages arising from wealth are taken by the world as atoning for what otherwise would be a mesalliance.”

  Doctor Thorne

• “If Porlock were to marry the daughter of a shoeblack, without a farthing, he would make a mesalliance; but if the daughter of the shoeblack had half a million of money, nobody would dream of saying so.”

  Doctor Thorne

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