What is "vance"

Usage examples of "vance".

The Vances were confident that it would prove a complete waste of time without information from the arsonist, but it would serve to surround Philip Hallan with suspicion.

Peter Vance favoured keeping the arsonist available in case they needed him again.

In the end, five minutes before the arsonist was due to arrive at their rendezvous for his final pay-off, the Vances reached a compromise.

The summer home of Senator Vance during the later years of his life was in his native county of Buncombe, about twenty miles from Asheville, where for some days I was his guest, many years ago.

Many years ago, near the western border of Buncombe County, lived an old negro who had in early life been a member of the family of the father of Senator Vance.

Vance, the eminent dopester of crimes and ponies, can now take a luxurious vacation.

Governor Vance of North Carolina, afterwards elected senator, telegraphed that the North-Carolina Legislature had almost unanimously passed resolutions in favor of it.

Richard Hickock has been targeted, too, and Stone Barrington has been mentioned more than once, as well as Vance Calder.

But although the practice was discouraged, students often walked straight through this triumph of American landscape art, the way Hoyt and Vance walked now beneath the brightness of a big round moon.

Then she conjectured that he might have told Miss Vance of her acquaintance with the Marches, and she bent forward and nodded to Mrs.

One day, shortly after their return to town in the autumn from the brief summer outing they permitted themselves, the Marches met Margaret Vance.

He came close to the veranda, and Le Sangre lifted his fine head and stared fearlessly, curiously, with a sort of contemptuous pride, at Elizabeth and Vance.

The slench increased as Vance approached, but he wanted to read the white tag thrust into the wicker of the handle.

For the very reason that Vance knew he was receiving what he deserved, and that this was the just reward for his thriftless years of idleness, he began to hate Elizabeth with a cold, quiet hatred.

When their discussion came to an end I pulled back, let Vance Colby through without him seeing me, and after he was out and in his car I went inside to where Miles was hunched up behind his desk, his face looking like he had just been whipped.