What is "mandeville"

Usage examples of "mandeville".

Cressida Mandeville stared up at the costumed madman on the huge horse, knowing she had finally reached her breaking point.

She was merely the daughter of Sir Arthur Mandeville, however, minor nabob.

Raven did have something of the predator about him, but Mandeville was all wrong for her.

Centuries ago, Sir John Mandeville had written of his travels to wild lands full of dragons and creatures who were half-man, half-beast.

Come, come, Miss Mandeville, you have the name of a romantic explorer.

Miss Mandeville, devil take it, needed to be protected from all this lewdness.

The respectable Cressida Mandeville, dead in a lewd costume after a lewd display at a lewd orgy.

Cressida Mandeville had a great deal to answer for, including some physical discomfort which was unlikely to be eased as he would wish.

Miss Mandeville so disliked having to acknowledge any weakness or error.

Cressida Mandeville had been driving him mad for hours, and now she was willing to play.

She could have pointed out that during weeks of the London season and a surfeit of balls and routs, Miss Cressida Mandeville had not once been introduced to the Duke of St.

She had visited, she had experienced, and now she wanted to be Miss Mandeville of Matlock once more, even if it meant never seeing the Duke of St.

She washed her face, scrubbing until she looked like Cressida Mandeville again.

Poor Cressida Mandeville would be the one barred from the land of delights.

No point in that unless she was willing to go, like Sir John Mandeville, to the ends of the earth.