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  • Kenneth said nothing, but when she had gone he turned to the girls and said: "We were thinking more of knowing for a certainty whether Uncle Peter was still alive, or whether your Montresor is my mother's brother.

    Polly and Eleanor Lillian Elizabeth Roy 1900

  • "We take full accountability for our supply chain," Ethicon spokeswoman Barbara Montresor said Thursday.

    J&J's Ethicon Unit Recalls Products Jon Kamp 2011

  • As Montresor pointed out, “A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.”

    The Keg of Knob Creek : Bev Vincent 2009

  • New Revisions Series 43: 359 – 365; Montresor, Jaye Berman.

    Marge Piercy. 2009

  • A brief but powerful tale of revenge, it is an example of tension building one likes to see in writing, but without a real beginning or a metabolic middle, yet certainly containing an end where the narrator, Montresor, walls up Fortunato in his wine cellar.

    His Ears, His Belly-Button, My Shoes Greg Gerke 2009

  • When Montresor starts bricking up Fortunato in the basement I squeal the soon to be dying man's pleading words like a pig in an abattoir.

    His Ears, His Belly-Button, My Shoes Greg Gerke 2009

  • On the theory, apparently, that the task of a fairy tale is to make things nice and easy for a kid's shrink, Montresor tucks his heroine into bed with the wolf, graphically pictures the wolf devouring the child head first, and ends with five full pages showing a happy Little Red in the wolf's stomach.

    Innocence And Experience 2008

  • But for serious villian - ok - maybe he's not the best, per se, but Montresor from 'The Cask of Amontillado' makes my blood run cold.

    Why Miss Snark loves Satan*** Miss Snark 2006

  • One of the grooms was carrying a pitchfork; he waved this menacingly in the air, causing a shriek of dismay from Madame Montresor, who plainly thought he meant to skewer the child.

    Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992

  • "It is Montresor and Monsieur's people," said Fontrailles.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

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