The first person whom she sought out was the rentier-the landlord of the cottage.
"Blind Love"
Wilkie Collins
She obviously belonged to that rentier class who spend the evening of their days in the quiet town which serves as G.H.Q.-a town which has a kind of faded gentility, and which, behind its inscrutable house-fronts, conceals a good deal of quiet opulence in the matter of old china, silver, and oak.
"Leaves from a Field Note-Book"
J. H. Morgan
At last he paused before a neat two story dwelling, and by the light of a lantern read the name of the owner under the night-bell, and above the word "rentier."
"The Children of the World"
Paul Heyse