Alehouse

For these commentators, the alehouse was a threat to public order, a hotbed of promiscuity, and a corrupter of conventional family life. ❋ Jessica A. Browner (1994)

The alehouse is the terrible bane of the labourer. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)

An "alehouse" is, however, alluded to in a ballad on the burning of the old Globe in 1613. ❋ Henry Vaughan (1658)

You can imagine him propping up the bar at a 16th-century tavern, his jokes the sort "to make fools laugh in the alehouse". ❋ Unknown (2011)

There is the land of course, with its leisurely rhythm and the cottages that seem to grow up out of the earth; the old alehouse, the Helyar Arms which, I discovered, and contrary to popular stories about English cooking, can give you a wonderful lunch. ❋ Roger Housden (2011)

The inn is nothing more than a village alehouse with two rooms for passing travelers. ❋ Philippa Gregory (2010)

But no, two beaches for the price of one – a buxom-kiss-me-quick-seasidey-prom one, and an alehouse-fishermen's-wharf one round the rear, cupping an estuary that darts with boats 24/7. ❋ Tom Dyckhoff (2010)

The oarmen were impressed with the unpretentious alehouse, which quickly gained popularity among the Yale set. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He orders that brigands and criminals be brought to justice and that the casual violence of the alehouse and the highway be controlled. ❋ Philippa Gregory (2010)

Every night we have to go to a village, an alehouse, or an abbey and find someone who can guide us for the next day. ❋ Philippa Gregory (2010)

“Which I wish they was, and all in my breeches-pocket, and my breeches in an alehouse, and me inside my breeches.” ❋ Bailey MacDonald (2009)

MRS. BISSAGE: Does this have something to do with that alehouse blog thing? ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

When John Taylor, a bargeman and alehouse keeper turned journalist, published an edition of his Mercurius Aquaticus in 1643, he included a complete reprint of a rival paper, the Mercurius Britanicus — followed by a point-by-point smackdown of its contents. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When Robin Oig left the door of the alehouse, seven or eight English miles at least lay betwixt Morrison and him. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Robin Oig drew out, in silence, a piece of money, threw it on the table, and then left the alehouse. ❋ Unknown (2008)

After spending some time in negotiating with more than one of the neighbouring farmers, who could not, or would not, afford the accommodation desired, Henry Wakefield at last, and in his necessity, accomplished his point by means of the landlord of the alehouse at which ❋ Unknown (2008)

Some of the idle young fellows, who had been a minute or two before loitering at the other end of the street before the door of the alehouse, (for the pretended inn deserved no better name,) now accompanied the old dames with shouts of laughter, excited by their unwonted agility; and with bets on the winner, as loudly expressed as if they had been laid at the starting post of Middlemas races. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The photograph of minors who are standing and smoking at the lobby of alehouse, billiard hall and computer shop is a common situation seen by many including authorities unmindful of the minors playing billiards, gulping alcoholic drinks and blasting away their money in computer games. ❋ Nomadicasian (2008)

The party at the alehouse were still in full talk, and the treachery of ❋ Unknown (2008)