What is "viner"

Usage examples of "viner".

Captain Hesketh Viner was still asleep, but soon she would hear the little twittering voice of her mother, like the voice of a rather futile and busy bird.

At last, breakfast was served both upstairs and downstairs, though Mary could never bring herself to look with any pleasure at Captain Hesketh Viner in bed.

There was in Mary Viner a gentleness that consented, and a young idealism that rebelled.

There were times when Mary Viner reasoned with herself, composing little homilies that laid a gentle and restraining hand upon her restlessness.

He was thinking of Mary Viner and her big brown eyes with their smoking lashes, and her quick changes of colour, and her air of breathlessness.

A pretty, affectionate, dark-eyed creature was Mary Viner, a young woman who stayed at home and did her job, God bless her, without much jam on her bread.

The lawn held a circular bed in its centre where Captain Viner tried to grow violas, and the slugs saw to it that his success was relative.

The Viner mowing-machine was like most things in Cinder Town, a make-shift, cheaply American, and second hand at that.

She was sure that Miss Viner would make use of the key when she was left alone with the temptation.

It happened that from the bank above the road Mary Viner saw the blue wagon pass as she had seen it set off in the morning.

Mary Viner sometimes wondered how her mother and father had managed to be born, for always they were late for any party or occasion.

Mary Viner, his Mary Viner, quick of breath and quick of colour, his Beloved of the poignant mouth.

It was the boy who spotted Captain Viner coming down across the Doom Paddock.

Life glowed so strong in him that it was not apparent to him at once that old Viner was the wooden soldier, stiff and correct, and buttoned up in a tight distress.

Old Viner looked through the gateway at the hay field, and pulled his moustache.