Tontine

Still, if the business were confined to simple endowment insurance in connection with pure life insurance there would be less objection, although banking is properly no part of insurance; but the fact is, a far more speculative business is done, called Tontine insurance.

The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886 Various

He then got into a ship called the President, and I into another called the Tontine, and both sailed for New York, where we arrived within a few days of each other.

Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast James Fenimore Cooper 1820

Jack won the bet, but by then the "Tontine" had been up on blocks for a decade in the front yard of my old friend Peter Derbyshire.

Rebecca Chace: Shipwreck: Robinson Crusoe and Me Rebecca Chace 2010

The Tontine Hotel (tontinehotel. com) specialises in outdoor activities and has bike storage and a drying room.

Five great biking challenges 2010

Cuttyhunk is a half-day's sail from the harbor where we moored the Tontine.

Rebecca Chace: Shipwreck: Robinson Crusoe and Me Rebecca Chace 2010

Kaaron Warren brings some of the darker shades of New Ceres to light in her offering, "Tontine Mary".

My new editing project - New Ceres print anthology! editormum 2008

It was the first time the Tontine felt small to me.

Rebecca Chace: Shipwreck: Robinson Crusoe and Me Rebecca Chace 2010

The boat was named "The Tontine", an old English word for a bet in the form of a legal agreement.

Rebecca Chace: Shipwreck: Robinson Crusoe and Me Rebecca Chace 2010

I'm starting to think that the family is participating in a reality version of The Wrong Box and we're participating in a Tontine that's seeing the various members knocked off one by one.

And I passed through the day like a phantom, and ghosted into the night 2007

The idea has always fascinated me, and I loved the book Tontine, by Thomas B. Costain.

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