The tontine is a scheme for raising money on a long-term basis by weighting rewards in favour of the longest lasting contributors. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
They work, I am told, with a kind of tontine -- it is, in fact, a lottery. From Wordnik.com. [As We Are and As We May Be] Reference
Saturday's term was tontine, which is defined as. From Wordnik.com. [Sui Generis--a New York law blog:] Reference
KCMG, etc., and the prize of the tontine now lay between the. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Box] Reference
With her death, Betty White has now won the Golden Girls tontine. From Wordnik.com. [Tallulah Morehead: Dead Folks 2010: Everyone's Pushing Up Roses] Reference
They have kept Joseph alive solely so they can inherit the tontine. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
The tontine developed an aura of shadiness, and was eventually abandoned. From Wordnik.com. [McKeever on Tontines] Reference
‘I have not only not gained the tontine — I have lost the leather business!’. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Box] Reference
‘By Jove!’ cried Wickham, ‘then you’re one of these Finsbury tontine fellows. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Box] Reference
Of course, the client was one of two survivors of a tontine, and the lawyer meant to collect. From Wordnik.com. [Tontines, Carmen Macrae and popmatters.com] Reference
Fearful of losing the tontine, they hatch a scheme to secure the money with a fraudulent death certificate. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
The police, two firms of undertakers and a casket containing the cash from the tontine become embroiled in the chaos. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
"Now I think the tontine was a big mistake.". From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2] Reference
"Your great-grandfather is a member of a tontine?". From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2] Reference
If he had it, he'd have won the tontine tomorrow. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Box] Reference
Here he would sometimes lament his connection with the tontine. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Box] Reference
'O, of course it's some rot about the tontine,' returned the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Box] Reference
'You must please remember, Johnny,' he said, 'the amount of the tontine. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Box] Reference
'By Jove!' cried Wickham, 'then you're one of these Finsbury tontine fellows. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Box] Reference
'I have not only not gained the tontine -- I have lost the leather business!'. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Box] Reference
A few lines of dialogue have been added to the play explaining what a tontine is. From Wordnik.com. [La Tontine] Reference
By way of experiment, a tontine on principles stated in the report was also suggested. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 (of 5) Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States] Reference
By way of experiment, a tontine, on principles stated in the report, was also suggested. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched] Reference
They must think me dead, and are trying to deceive the world for the chance of the tontine. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Box] Reference
'It's not the tontine now, it's the leather business, Johnny; it's the clothes upon our back.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Box] Reference
"Or, you may prefer the automatic tontine Policy with ball-bearings," continued the Death Angel. From Wordnik.com. [People You Know] Reference
He should lose the tontine, and with that the last hope of his seven thousand eight hundred pounds. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Box] Reference
What was yet more to the purpose, he had been all his life a consistent scoffer at the Finsbury tontine. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Box] Reference
'My dear Johnny, if you don't think the tontine worth a little trouble, say so, and I'll give the business up.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Box] Reference
Joseph's liabilities; and if he gets the tontine, it's to be mine; if my father gets it, it's mine anyway, you see. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Box] Reference
You get the tontine -- I don't grudge it you the least -- and I get the leather business, which is really beginning to look up. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Box] Reference
If he had it, he’d have won the tontine tomorrow.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Box] Reference
I’ve wanted to write a tontine story for a really long time. From Wordnik.com. [March « 2009 « Kaaron Warren] Reference
"Do you mean to say this association of major-domos created a tontine?. From Wordnik.com. [The Body Ricardo] Reference
‘O, of course it’s some rot about the tontine,’ returned the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Box] Reference
They must think me dead, and are trying to deceive the world for the chance of the tontine.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Box] Reference
"Some in fashion's tontine disperse all their spleen. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2] Reference
The secret is like the devil's tontine, -- he catches the last possessor of it. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Dog] Reference
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