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Vallance is a surname, and may refer to:
- Gerald Aylmer Vallance (1892–1955), born George Alexander Gerald Vallance, was a Scottish newspaper editor.
- Jeffrey Vallance (born 1955), American artist
- Jim Vallance (born 1952), Canadian songwriter
- Louise Vallance (born 1958), Canadian actress and singer
- Thomas Vallance (1924–1980), English football player
- Tom Vallance (1856–1935), Scottish international football player
- William Fleming Vallance (1827–1904) artist
Usage examples of "vallance".
Bond a full five minutes to shake off his depression and realize that Ronnie Vallance was relieved to see him, that he was not interested in inter-departmental jealousies and that he was only looking to Bond to protect the Moonraker and get one of his best officers out of what might be a bad mess.
Assistant Commissioner Vallance over the Moonraker affair and there was no need to waste time on preliminaries.
Then he had taken a taxi down to Scotland Yard where he had an appointment with Assistant Commissioner Vallance at a quarter to three.
Only criminals or informers came and waited here, or influential people vainly trying to get out of a dangerous driving charge or desperately hoping to persuade Vallance that their sons were not really homosexuals.
He wanted to be out of the house and on the telephone to Vallance as early as possible.
Then he drove on to the police station and put a call in to Vallance through the Scotland Yard switchboard.
It seemed ridiculous to talk to Vallance about moustaches and the creep of danger he had felt the night before and which the daylight had dissipated.
He was a worried man and when Bond reported briefly on the security of the Moonraker, Vallance seemed to be listening with only half his mind.
It was front-page news in the evening papers and at the close of business the Treasury had got on to Vallance and told him the extraordinary news that the selling wave had been started by Drax Metals Ltd.
He questioned Bond minutely and when Bond finished his story with the gist of his last conversation with Vallance M.
Even if I had a word with the PM, which would be damned unfair on Vallance, what am I to tell him?
He is here, and Winfortune and Sloan, and Vallance has brought his Londoners, and the roads are watched, and the place is a fortified castle.
And, she reminded herself, he had much to lose if authority over Treymoor was transferred, either to the devil Scotsman or to that wastrel Nicholas Vallance, should he return from his refuge in France and assuming he was still alive.
I believe one of two infamous rogues stands to gain: either Nicholas Vallance or the Marquess of lolar.
And so Vallance fell grandly as Lucifer to the lowest pit, joining the tattered ghosts in the little park.