He fetched a Portmantle just come, and an order to put me in a room alone.
"Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker"
S. Weir Mitchell
That Portmantle didn't cost more than three half-crowns altogether, and ten pound wouldn't ha' got anything so strong from a Portmantle maker, would it, Dan?
"The Hand of Ethelberta"
Thomas Hardy
It belongs to that man whose seat you've got, said Yuba Bill, who, for insulting purposes of his own, preferred to establish the fiction that Wiles was an interloper; and ef he reckons, in a sorter mixed kempeny like this, to lock up his Portmantle, I don't know who's business it is.
"The Story of a Mine"
Bret Harte