Marriage Broker

The book-seller is a marriage-broker for unwedded books. ❋ Leon H. Vincent (N/A)

He portrays the misery of a Jewish woman who is condemned to enter married life at the bidding of the marriage-broker, without love and without happiness, or he describes the tragedy of another woman whose future is wrecked by a "Dot over the _i_." ❋ I. [Translator] Friedlaender (1900)

He was also a most skilful and successful Shadchan, or marriage-broker, and his extensive travels placed this famous Rabbi in an excellent position for match-making. ❋ Israel Abrahams (1891)

"My dear Mr. Brockton, after all, I never undertook to be a marriage-broker!" ❋ Henry Mills Alden (1877)

The Duchess had clipped the wings of the angel with the phrase of a marriage-broker. ❋ Jules Sandeau (1847)

I shall only tell you a bon-mot of Keith's, the marriage-broker, and conclude. ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)

Most marriage broker supporters can’t even be bothered to even express the pro forma concern; the fact that Mr. King beat one marriage-broker bride and murdered another isn’t even a matter of concern for you folks, judging from what you’ve written here. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Grocery Store "(1860), of little merit from the artistic point of view, he still appears as the naive bard of that shallow" enlightenment, "the champion of which is sufficiently characterized by wearing a European costume, calling himself by a well-sounding German or Russian name (in the novel under discussion the hero goes by the name of Arnold), cultivating friendly relations with noble-minded Christians and making a love match unassisted by the marriage-broker. ❋ I. [Translator] Friedlaender (1900)