Vantine

Desert south, was populated chiefly by people who took their horses there in the summer and entertained in country-houses with hardwood floors and Vantine portires.

Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 1900

Vantine that a change of plans made it unnecessary for the teacher to meet the train.

The Cricket Marjorie Benton Cooke 1898

Miss Vantine thought best to ignore this impertinence.

The Cricket Marjorie Benton Cooke 1898

Miss Vantine truly believed in herself as an educator and since her school had held its prestige for thirty years, she had reason to think that other people agreed with her.

The Cricket Marjorie Benton Cooke 1898

Miss Vantine warned her at the beginning of the term that she was a marked character, and that unless she behaved herself she could not stay.

The Cricket Marjorie Benton Cooke 1898

Any departure from the Vantine "norm" in the way of investigation or conclusion was discouraged as not nice.

The Cricket Marjorie Benton Cooke 1898

Miss Vantine bore with her like a martyr -- for two reasons.

The Cricket Marjorie Benton Cooke 1898

The girl sauntered insolently out of the room, leaving Miss Vantine white with rage.

The Cricket Marjorie Benton Cooke 1898

Great nobles, whether possessed of vast wealth and estates, or altogether landless, were summoned to take their rightful positions at the Court, where Vantine the wine-grower, and Jost the

Temporal Power Marie Corelli 1889

Quietly but firmly, he dropped the acquaintance of Jew sharks, lying in wait among the dirty pools of speculation; -- with ease and absoluteness he 'let go' one by one, certain ladies of particularly elastic virtue, who fondly dreamed that they 'managed' him; and among these, to her infinite rage and despair, went Madame Vantine, wife of

Temporal Power Marie Corelli 1889