And then people had come from Truro and pendragon and even Bodmin and, finally, Exeter, because they had heard of the things that he had for sale.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
The town of pendragon, lying at the foot of the "House of the Flutes," had little of this survival of former custom about it; it was rapidly developing into that temple of British middle-class mediocrity, a modern watering-place.
"The Wooden Horse"
Hugh Walpole
"The pendragon Hotel" astonished him by its stone pillars, its glimpse of a wonderful, cool, softly carpeted hall, its official in gold buttons who stood solemnly magnificent on the steps, the admiration of several small boys who looked up into his face with wide-open eyes.
"The Wooden Horse"
Hugh Walpole