tontine

They assume that most Government officials are members of at least one tontine.

As the result of a tontine he became the sole owner.

The Tontine was a large hotel on the southeast end of the green.

Here he would sometimes lament his connection with the tontine.

But it would be nice, Lon told himself, like winning a tontine.

He should lose the tontine, and with that the last hope of his seven thousand eight hundred pounds.

In the tontine, its members must contribute a fixed amount of money regularly.

He invented the tontine, a form of life insurance.

These sometimes contained the word "tontine" in their name.

Five of their children were nominated in the first British tontine in 1693.

A tontine, for those who didn't grow up with them, is a money lending club.

It was in the form of a tontine.

The last one to become married will receive one million dollars from the tontine.

In the year 1789, the interest, exclusive of the tontine, was L9,150,138.

If he had it, he'd have won the tontine tomorrow.'

Unlike many of her near relatives, Tontine made no impact as a broodmare.

The cost was £16,500 which was raised by means of a tontine.

Lucy went to her room, she took out her dictionary and looked up the word "tontine".

They must think me dead, and are trying to deceive the world for the chance of the tontine.'

The English government organised a tontine in 1693.

Each indigenous investor pays a sum into the tontine.

"Tontine and Tokay - I always mix those two words up.

Tontine has been making pillows since 1956.

A comic novel of a tontine, also filmed (1966).

The tontine which owned this moved the business to the newly created and fashionable New Town.