What is "wharton"

Usage examples of "wharton".

Sir Alured Wharton of Wharton Hall should live made those struggles very ineffective.

Both Mr Wharton and Sir Alured felt that this might be very well at Longbarns, though it could hardly be afforded at Wharton.

Longbarns when she chooses to come here, and I hope Sir Alured will say the same as to Wharton Hall.

These tidings were quite important to Mr Wharton as to Sir Alured,--more important to Everett Wharton than to either of them, as he would inherit all after the death of those two old men.

Mr Wharton had declared calumniously more than once to an intimate friend,--had not an H in his vocabulary.

Mary made a polite but noncommittal response, and turned to watch the arrival, not of the expected Wharton wagon, but of a particularly well-built haycart from Canons Grange, lined with bales of straw and drawn by a pair of great horses which arched their necks, raised and lowered their great feathered feet and flourished their ribboned tails with all the pride of their warhorse ancestry.

During this time, in spite of his threat, he continued to live with Mr Wharton in Manchester Square, and went every day into the city,--whether to make arrangements and receive instructions as to Guatemala, or to carry on his old business, neither Emily nor her father knew.

On the following morning he kept his appointment at the office in Coleman Street, as did Mr Wharton also.

When Mr Wharton was in Coleman Street, having his final interview with Mr Hartlepod, there came a visitor to Mrs Lopez in Manchester Square.

Mr Wharton had very generously paid his electioneering expenses, but had not done so simply with the view of making him a present of money.

Men of all classes were open-mouthed in the denunciation and meanness of Lopez--though no one but Mr Wharton knew half his villainy, as he alone knew that the expenses had been paid twice over.

All the Fletchers and everything belonging to them were almost worshipped at Wharton Hall.

The old kings had died away, but the Fletchers and the Vaughans,--of whom she had been one,--and the Whartons remained, a peculiar people in an age that was then surrendering itself to quick perdition, and with peculiar duties.

Wharton, when the Fletchers or Everett were there, was freely used for that purpose.

John looked very black, for even with him the feeling about the Whartons and the Vaughans and the Fletchers was very strong.