Such as were still disposed to be hostile to him, could no longer avail themselves of that mode of reviling-still so customary among the "elite"-by calling him an "adventurer."
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
I had little time, and still less inclination, to meditate upon the Colonel's wrath-the theatre had all my thoughts; and indeed it was a day of no common exertion, for our amusements were to conclude with a grand supper on the stage, to which all the elite of Cork were invited.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
None the less, she was, for a soldier's wife, a first-rate housekeeper; and, supposing these bulbs to be onions of peculiar rarity, she forthwith issued invitations to the elite of the Island, and ordered over a leg of Welsh mutton from the mainland.
"Major Vigoureux"
A. T. Quiller-Couch