(1) A child of the civil rights movement, she attended integrated schools and sends her son to one of Atlanta's tony private academies.

(2) Likewise, locals with tony connections are packing their bags for ranches in Wyoming and mountain aeries in Colorado.

(3) They sent them to tony private schools, as well.

(4) Here, in tony Mount Washington, the residents sometimes complain too, but they seem to secretly like it this way because it adds to the hidden, rural character.

(5) When Americans think of British television, they think of ‘quality’ news and tony entertainment shows.

(6) And what does it have to do with tony Monterey County, home of rugged shorelines, exclusive golf clubs and hundreds of acres of lettuce fields?

(7) There's a fear that the valley may grow from a place where people of modest means can live and work into a tony enclave for wealthy second-home owners.

(8) There is everything in this discount store of literary ambitions, from the obligatory tony commentary to pathetic little passages of smut.

(9) In 1989, they were married in the tony paradise of Hobe Sound, Fla., where the bride's parents had moved after decades of living near Chicago.

(10) Fried chicken gets the respect it deserves at his tony restaurant.

(11) All these years I lived here, and little did I know how much fun could be had for so little money in a town so famous for its tony ways.

(12) A fire hydrant that prevented him and his wife from parking their SUV in front of their tony digs was removed by the city of Boston at his behest.

(13) It markets its meat to tony Manhattan restaurants and gets top dollar.

(14) So Allan, how do you explain the relative success at these tony places, all these expensive handbags and lotions and potions and so forth?

(15) In the ensuing days Miller was celebrated in the tony newspapers and magazines as a latter-day Shakespeare.

(16) Little Dix Bay, a tony Rosewood resort on Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands, offers WiFi on its beaches.

(17) Until recently, mache - also known as lamb's lettuce or corn salad and a longtime staple in France - could be found here mainly in tony restaurants and upscale markets.

(18) It's not just their ability to publish in so many tony outlets - it's the fact that they're more than a decade younger than me and publishing in so many tony outlets.

(19) The expected glamour of the leading ladies was complemented by the tony dressing of guests who represented the full cultural mélange that is Houston.