What is "chauncey"

Usage examples of "chauncey".

While Chauncey poured, Dortmunder looked at the rest of the room, the Persian rug and the antique-looking tables and chairs, the large ornate lamps, and the paintings on the walls.

Dortmunder hadn't recognized the shape of the bottle when Chauncey was pouring.

They studied one another over the rims of their glasses for a while – Dortmunder was getting a bit cross-eyed – and then Chauncey put his glass back on the drum table, Dortmunder lowered his own glass into his lap, and Chauncey shrugged as though embarrassed, saying, "I need money.

The burglar alarm wouldn't be that much of a problem, not with Chauncey pointing out where the wires ran, and if the guards did actually stay downstairs they'd be no trouble either.

Dortmunder sipped at his drink, which didn't taste even remotely like the nectar called bourbon that Chauncey had given him.

Rubbing his cheek, Chauncey gazed up over the jumbled sheets and blankets at the tapered bare back of the girl reaching now for her blue jeans draped on a Louis Quinze chair.

Ramsey had written to Chauncey's mother, in a letter Chauncey never saw till he was going through her papers after the wicked old woman's death.

Now, in November, the garden was all bare branches and black stumps, but in the summer, when Chauncey was almost never in New York, it was a place of beauty.

A man like that was ripe for direction from a stronger personality, which was the way Chauncey saw himself.

Not sure what was going on, Chauncey backed into the darkened entranceway of a nearby boutique, and his left heel came down on something soft, which moved.

Illuminated by light angling up through the open trapdoor, Chauncey stood and observed, a faint expectant smile on his face.

It was all right, for instance, for Dortmunder and Chefwick to hang around in dark corners, that was more or less part of their job, but Chauncey was supposed to be a straight citizen, and not only that, a wealthy one.

If Chauncey was another clown leading a rich fantasy life, Dortmunder would have to rethink this entire proposition.

Even if the Chauncey deal fell through, it could be useful to know how to get into this place at some later date.

Turning his back on both vision and building, he returned to the Chauncey roof, where Chefwick was cleaning his hands on a Wash'n'Dri from his leather bag.