What is "altamont"

Usage examples of "altamont".

She was sharing a table—though she was not eating or drinking—with a well-dressed, well-fed, stoutish man of middle age, named Ambrose Altamont, a commoner very recently come into startling wealth.

Trying to get the better of Altamont, as the man himself would have assured you, was likely to result in truly frightful punishment.

Certainly the sharp-eyed Altamont did not find the signs of life so stubbornly displayed by today's first hanged man at all perturbing.

Ambrose Altamont, of Norberton House, Amberley, Buckinghamshire, had made an appointment for a professional consultation and was soon due to arrive.

Her fiancé, being a good swimmer, had survived without difficulty, and had readily enough rescued Rebecca Altamont, the younger sister.

He, like Altamont, was wearing a black armband, and plainly the loss of his fiancée had hit him hard.

No more than ten feet away, just at the corner of the Altamont mausoleum, as if he had come up soundlessly along its far side, was standing a tall, red-bearded, pale-faced man, apparently thirty-five or forty years of age.

He gestured minimally, a slight movement of the head, toward the distant Altamont home, invisible from here behind its woods and orchards.

If he did not appear at the appointed time, he would leave them a message—he showed them exactly where he would place this communication, in a crevice between crumbling stones in the side of the Altamont mausoleum.

The Altamonts had lived in this house at least since the early eighteenth century, before the time of our client's ancestor and namesake, a certain Ambrose Altamont who was said to have died in London, murdered under peculiar and violent circumstances in the year 1765.

Cooper's reply to my question confirmed that one of the portraits near the top was indeed that of the Ambrose Altamont who had died in 1765.

Beside that portrait hung another, of the Peter Altamont who had inherited the estate.

Martin Armstrong stood up and introduced us to Rebecca Altamont, who unlike her mother was still wearing mourning.

And Miss Altamont stared at Holmes and myself with earnest hopefulness.

There were no dogs to be concerned about, both of the senior Altamonts having a general dislike of the species.