Citations:chatelaine

English citations of chatelaine

• 1906, Gelett Burgess, Are You A Bromide?‎^[1]:

  The history of the origin of the theory is brief. The Chatelaine of a certain sugar plantation in Louisiana, in preparing a list of guests for her house-party, discovered, in one of those explosive moments of inspiration, that all people were easily divided into two fundamental groups or families, the Sulphites and the Bromides.

• 1943, Ayn Rand, chapter 1, in The Fountainhead, Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, part 2 (Ellsworth M. Toohey), page 206; republished as chapter 1, in The Fountainhead (New American Library), New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, September 2016, →ISBN:

  Cars passed her on the road; the people of the quarry town knew her and bowed to her; she was considered the chatelaine of the countryside, as her mother had been long ago.