So we are tickled by the thought, whether it be not here feasible to make a match, to draw a conclusion, with the anticipation that if a consequence follows this conclusion it is not only the two judgments united in wedlock but the matchmakers that will gain honour.
"Human, All-Too-Human, Part II"
Friedrich Nietzsche
Two furious matchmakers-our country, beautiful France, abounds in them-met one day; they were a comtesse and a baronne, and they settled the alliance.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
The very respectable matchmakers have kindled the marquis on the one hand, and my father on the other, and Renee passes obediently from the latter to the former.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith