Coffee-houses Sentence Examples

Danby therefore ordered a return from every diocese of the numbers of dissenters, both Romanist and Protestant, in order by a proof of their insignificance to remove the royal scruples.3 In December 1676 he issued a proclamation for the suppression of coffee-houses because of the "defamation of His Majesty's Government" which took place in them, but this was soon withdrawn.

Their use is for gruel, which used to be consumed as an ordinary drink in the 17th century at the coffee-houses in London.

All the boudoirs of that generation were garnished with divans; they even spread to coffee-houses, which were sometimes known as "divans" or "Turkish divans"; and a "cigar divan" remains a familiar expression.

Until the Revolution no duty was laid on tea other than that levied on the infusion as sold in the coffee-houses.

Alas London's coffee houses of old too died a death.

In these coffee-houses, however, there generally prevails a very decorous stillness and silence.

North Beach is home to a variety of restaurants -- from coffee houses to fine dining establishments.

Most towns and cities have clubs or coffee houses that have open-mike nights where poets read their best work on stage.

Colbie Caillat is an example of an artist who would've been restricted to a career in coffee houses if it weren't for Myspace.