Ponto's

You see the baby is not at all afraid of the dog, and she is too good-tempered to cry about the milk being spilt; but she holds her spoon out of Ponto's way and says, "Naughty, naughty!"

Baby Chatterbox Anonymous

She would run off with your scissors, your bodkin, your needlebook, and your spool of cotton; she would stuff your handkerchief in her pocket by mistake; she'd break the strings of your bag, trying to open it; she'd try your spectacles on to her kitten, and tie your new tippet on the dog Ponto's neck.

Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends Fanny Fern

_Ponto's_ stern and putting both propellers out of action.

Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force Ernest [Illustrator] Prater 1917

My aunt used to sit at one of the windows -- not Ponto's, I can tell you -- ready, like Dickens's heroine, Betsy Trotwood, to pounce out upon passing travellers.

The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez 1895

A pretty pointer leaped from the car, and attracted by the evident friendliness of Ponto's greeting, pricked up its ears, and sought, in a spirit of canine brotherhood, to touch noses with him.

The Brown Mouse Herbert Quick 1893

The needle in Ponto's muzzle did its work to the agony and horror of the pointer, which leaped back with a yelp, and turned tail.

The Brown Mouse Herbert Quick 1893

Its wires were curled into a ring directly over the dog's nose, and into this ring Newton had fitted a cork, through which he had thrust a large needle which protruded, an inch-long bayonet, in front of Ponto's nose.

The Brown Mouse Herbert Quick 1893

Thackeray was delighted to find one household (Major Ponto's) where the governess ruled supreme, and I feel a fiendish pleasure in these accounts of a country where men have been able to maintain some rights, and am moved to preach a crusade for the liberation of the American husband, that the poor, down-trodden creature may revolt from the slavery where he is held and once more claim his birthright.

Worldly Ways and Byways Eliot Gregory 1884

In the first number of the first edition there is an odd note, rather out of place, but it was withdrawn later -- meant to ridicule Mr. Jingle's story of "Ponto's" sagacity; it states that in Mr. Jesse's gleanings, there are more amazing stories than this.

Pickwickian Manners and Customs Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879

I still think the visit to Ponto's the best part of the Book of Snobs: does that mean that I was right when I was a child, or does it mean that I have never grown since then, that the child is not the man's father, but the man? and that I came into the world with all my faculties complete, and have only learned sinsyne to be more tolerant of boredom? ...

Essays of Travel Robert Louis Stevenson 1872