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  • But how about Ida, his own dozen-years 'wife of a glorious love-match?

    THE KANAKA SURF 2010

  • Certainly Jennie and Randolph never thought their impulsive love-match would trigger the ambitions of social-climbing American millionaires born of the post-Civil War, but the subsequent marriage of her friends Consuelo Yznaga to the dissipated Viscount Mandeville (future Duke of Manchester) two years later, and Minnie Stevens to Colonel Arthur Paget two years after that sealed the fate of the American heiress.

    The American Heiress | Edwardian Promenade 2008

  • : One of the very things that made what Van and I have a love-match as well as a lifebonding was that we were so different.

    Widows and Orphans R. Daniel Lester 2010

  • Dr. Phil trying to find her a love-match is the LEAST of her problems.

    'American Idol' Judges -- Too Mean? Isn't That Kind Of Like Saying Hell Is Too Hot? 2007

  • Despite the difference in their ages — he was 29, she was 18 — this was a love-match.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2009

  • Admittedly, this group may have been self-selecting, but I believe that a similar group of three hundred love-match relationships would most likely result in fewer positive reports.

    First Comes Marriage Reva Seth 2008

  • May 26, 2008 at 11:25 am i have to admit i watched the last few episodes of rock of love, and from there culled the best line i have ever heard. brett michaels discussing a stripper love-match potential with him: “i need to know how to get her off the pole and on to mine”.

    Reality Comes to Ottawa « XUP 2008

  • Living by themselves in their ancient castles, or their dreary mansion of the Faubourg St. Germain, I suppose the Duke and Duchess grew tried of one another, as persons who enter into a mariage de convenance sometimes, nay, as those who light a flaming love-match, and run away with one another, will be found to do.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • How I fastened upon Spencer at this time (my friend of the Temple who also had an unfortunate love-match), and walked with him from my apartments to the Temple, and he back with me to Bedford Gardens, and our talk was for ever about our women!

    The Virginians 2006

  • The love-match people are the most notorious of all for quarrelling afterwards; and a girl who runs away with Jack to Gretna Green, constantly runs away with

    The History of Pendennis 2006

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