When it is considered that there is no public-house in all the island and that seven thousand souls dwell therein, some idea may be gained of the temperateness of the community. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Of course there was a public-house at both ends of the court. ❋ Unknown (2010)
We have seen it remarked that it is the public-house and gin palace, and not the church or chapel, which would gain in attendance by the stoppage of the trains. ❋ Unknown (2012)
Wretchedness squirms for alleviation, and in the public-house its pain is eased and forgetfulness is obtained. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Supposing, he said, two of the most distinguished members of the House of Lords—the Lord Chancellor Lord Simon and Lord Cranborne —suitably dressed in sweaters and corduroys, conversed with ordinary people in a public-house in Wapping. ❋ Unknown (2012)
Not only do men and women abnormally crave drink, who are overworked, exhausted, suffering from deranged stomachs and bad sanitation, and deadened by the ugliness and monotony of existence, but the gregarious men and women who have no home-life flee to the bright and clattering public-house in a vain attempt to express their gregariousness. ❋ Unknown (2010)
His community was the Island McGill, where seven thousand of his kind lived in such amity and sobriety that in the whole island there was but one policeman and never a public-house at all. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A public-house by the road-side is commonly known by the name of The Cat at Charlton. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Mrs. Grundy drew the line at spirits, but allowed that it was quite proper for a clean young girl to drink beer, and to go into a public-house to drink it. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Now such a room as I have described is not home but horror; and the men and women who flee away from it to the public-house are to be pitied, not blamed. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Mrs. Grundy rules as supremely over the workers as she does over the bourgeoisie; but in the case of the workers, the one thing she does not frown upon is the public-house. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And thereupon we entered upon a talk that extended itself to a public-house and a couple of pints of "arf an 'arf." ❋ Unknown (2010)
We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside public-house. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one of the streets which runs down into Holborn. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He was equally unsuccessful with the potman who was just unlocking the doors of the public-house by Horsell Bridge. ❋ H. G. Wells (2009)
With infinite trouble I managed to break into a public-house and get food and drink. ❋ H. G. Wells (2009)
No; he is thinking that it is with the feet that one dances; so, when he has succeeded in severing his fetters, his first idea is that now he can dance, and he calls the saw the bastringue (public-house ball). — ❋ Unknown (2008)
It was there that lay the Rue de la Chanvrerie, which ancient deeds spell Chanverrerie, and the celebrated public-house called Corinthe. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He himself inhabited one of these; another, a species of public-house, was open to his confederates, who held secret and unsuspected communication with him by crossing the roofs of the intervening houses, and descending by a trap-stair, which admitted them into the alcove of the dining-room of ❋ Unknown (2008)
