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Their services were costly, but since they enabled prospective brides and grooms to avoid the shame of mismating, the general community was willing to pay their fee.

Hawaii Michener, James 1959

The three dread Sisters who determine the fate of men must have laughed amongst themselves at such an obvious mismating, knowing well how inevitably it would tangle the threads of many other lives than the two immediately concerned.

The Lamp of Fate Margaret Pedler

Cupid is said to have made much havoc in the Community, and though very little mismating is to be traced to the intimacy of the life there, fourteen marriages have been attributed to friendships begun at Brook Farm, and there was even one wedding there, that of John Orvis to John Dwight's sister,

The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees Mary Caroline Crawford

Then when you show how mismating is responsible for poor children quality and how disease accounts for feeble-minded and degenerate offspring, he will be fairly well posted, and he will be ready to imbibe more details, and you will have done much of your duty.

The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies

The prevalence of divorce places before young men and women sad examples of mismating, of incompetent homemakers, of wrecked homes.

Vocational Guidance for Girls Marguerite Stockman Dickson

It is desirable, however, to realize that mismating is the real evil.

Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933

Social condemnation should stigmatize the wrong of mismating, not the undoing of such a wrong.

Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933

Their marriage had been a mistake, that was all, -- a mismating, as many marriages were.

The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918

We cannot countenance brutality, unfaithfulness, or temperamental mismating.

The Nervous Housewife Abraham Myerson 1914

He let the soap remain in the water to soften a little, and, returning to the dressing room, whiled away the time in mixing and mismating pairs of shoes along the walls, and also in tying the strings of the mismated shoes together in hard knots.

Penrod and Sam Booth Tarkington 1907