Tavern Sentence Examples

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  • About two hundred yards away there's a tavern where ours have already gathered.

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  • The vestals were vowed to, chastity, lived together in a great nunnery, were forbidden to open or enter a tavern, and together with other votaries had many privileges.

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  • It was instituted in 1755 at the White Bear Inn (now St Bride's Tavern), Fleet Street, moved about 1850 to Discussion Hall, Shoe Lane, and in 1871 finally migrated to the Barley Mow Inn, Salisbury Square, E.C., its present quarters.

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  • He strode to the edge of the tavern.

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  • The Elmendorf Tavern (1723) was the meeting-place of the New York Council of Safety in October 1 777.

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  • The tavern remained the same, having changed nothing but the bush.

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  • The delights of love are made to stand for the raptures of union with the divine, the tavern symbolizes an oratory, and intoxication is the bewilderment of sense before the surpassing vision.

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  • Percy received the fugitives within a hollow square, checked the onslaught for a time with two field-pieces, used the Munroe Tavern for a hospital, and later in the day carried his command with little further injury back to Boston.

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  • The meetings were afterwards held at the Fountain tavern in the Strand, and latterly in a room specially built for the purpose at Barn Elms, the residence of the secretary, Jacob Tonson, the publisher.

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  • There is a microbrewery attached to the tavern, where beer is made on site.

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  • Over the years, the tavern has grown into a chain of restaurants across the state offering clam-based dishes and beer.

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  • That was two for one night at McGinchy's tavern.

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  • A good cleaning, a coat of paint and a few working light bulbs might make the place a pleasant neighborhood tavern.

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  • Which famous playwright was stabbed to death in a tavern brawl?

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  • The real draw is the seaside tavern experience, which is a great way to get the local flavor of the area and its inhabitants.

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  • Tavern also boasts an impressive wine list, with many selections offered by the glass.

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  • As its name implies, this is a tavern and is popular during televised sporting events when hockey and football games are displayed on the bar's six televisions.

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  • Take-out is available, though you may want to stay to enjoy the tavern's live music.

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  • The tavern's atmosphere is rustic, with working fireplaces and a cocktail bar.

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  • Almost two hundred years old, this tavern establishment provides friendly service and proximity to a number of fantastic wineries.

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  • If Eden succeeded, Xander died, a fact he didn't learn for many years after she left him writhing in agony on the roof of a tavern.

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  • We assume that the rite employed was serious and Anglican may reverent, and there is no longer any need to refute the fable of a ludicrous consecration at the "Nag's Head " tavern.

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  • What makes this fact still more certain is the circumstance that a haberdasher in Cheapside living "'twixt Wood Street and Milk Street," two streets on the north side opposite Bread and Friday Streets, described himself as " over against the Mermaid tavern in Cheapside."

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  • Sometimes, indeed, they transferred their hostilities from the servant to the master, complained that a better table was not kept for them, and railed or maundered till their benefactor was glad to make his escape to Streatham or to the Mitre Tavern.

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  • It is true, however, that he was stabbed, like Marlowe, in a midnight brawl at a tavern.

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  • A popular tavern was pulled down at the location of the northern abutment.

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  • Dollars brings bettors jarecki's film which otherwise have remained undone a tavern owner.

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  • They would go away chastened, stirred, amused; they would not be in the riotous mood associated with the tavern.

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  • And when we drink again it shall be from the great flagons in the tavern at the end of the world.

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  • Meetings of the Bill of Rights Society took place fortnightly at the London Tavern.

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  • You play, Jacob, like a bonnet laird, or a sailor in a tavern.

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  • Vegas Towers To lobby the rating higher than face card or tavern league lobbyist.

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  • Riverboat gaming proceeds at dj's tavern enterprises president louis move compared to.

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  • In passing through the little village of Dobcross I observed a quaint tavern sign, illustrative of the ruling passion.

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  • As a junior at Surrey, I would stand in the Surrey Tavern and listen to the senior pros talking about the game.

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  • The Eastgate was used for a time as a tavern called the salutation.

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  • Magnificent walled Italian gardens, pool, Cook and banquet ' tavern ' in grounds.

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  • A few unfamiliar faces had entered the tavern, that wasn't entirely unusual but a lone unfamiliar face ordered an unfamiliar drink.

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  • Even in the most obscure communities Americans visited a tavern regularly if not daily.

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  • The Smugglers Inn was a famous tavern back in the reign of Queen Anne and it was the headquarters of the Earl of Strathmore.

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  • A pint of ale in a dark corner of an old tavern or two will chase away your fears.

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  • He would sooner buy an opponent a drink in a local tavern than take their head.

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  • The old coffee tavern next to the Post Office building came down along with the main station building including its Victorian arches.

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  • When we arrived at the village tavern, it seemed deserted.

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  • In 1713 the vicinity was opened up to settlement, a tavern and a mill were constructed, and a turnpike road was built to Boston.

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  • The publican, taking advantage of the increased crowd, dropped behind and returned to his tavern.

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  • The Eastgate was used for a time as a tavern called the Salutation.

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  • A few unfamiliar faces had entered the tavern, that was n't entirely unusual but a lone unfamiliar face ordered an unfamiliar drink.

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  • On 10 February 1616 William 's younger daughter Judith, aged 31, married Thomas Quiney, a tavern keeper.

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  • Only tavern owners were happy about the high spending on alcohol.

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  • Later he ask 's her to the Valentine 's dinner at the Travel Tavern.

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  • He was not to convert it into a tavern or victualling house.

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  • In Greenwich, whitebait feasts at the Trafalgar Tavern and the Old Ship Tavern were popular events.

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  • I held the square between my index finger and middle finger with a slight curve on the pull, like a cool way of holding a pool stick at a speak-easy pool hall, tavern, bar or a club.

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  • The game begins when the Bard goes to a local tavern to try and con the barkeep for some food.

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  • Well, probably the best place to spot one is some lowdown dive of a tavern in Colorado.

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  • The tavern where the woman told him to go was in the center of the city.

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  • Eden stood on top of the tavern overlooking the immortal city of the Grey God.

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  • The death penalty was freely awarded for theft and other crimes regarded as coming under that head; for theft involving entrance of palace or temple treasury, for illegal purchase from minor or slave, for selling stolen goods or receiving the same, for common theft in the open (in default of multiple restoration) or receiving the same, for false claim to goods, for kidnapping, for assisting or harbouring fugitive slaves, for detaining or appropriating same, for brigandage, for fraudulent sale of drink, for disorderly conduct of tavern, for delegation of personal service, for misappropriating the levy, for oppression of feudal holders, for causing death of a householder by bad building.

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  • The legend of an indecent consecration at the Nag's Head tavern in Fleet Street seems first to have been printed by the Jesuit, Christopher Holywood, in 1604; and it has long been abandoned by reputable controversialists.

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  • The Windmill tavern occupies a prominent position in the action of Every Man in his Humour.

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  • In Coolidge's Tavern (still standing) Washington was entertained on his New England tour in 1789; and in a house recently moved from Mt Auburn Street to Marshall Street the Committee of Safety met in 1775.

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  • In his fight with poverty he was put to strange shifts, becoming cellarman at a tavern and clerk to a lawyer, reciting and singing at a small theatre, and compiling a collection of common songs.

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  • He was apparently one of the Cambridge men who were wont to gather at the White Horse Tavern for Bible-reading and theological discussion early in the third decade of the 16th century.

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  • Among several ancient houses the most interesting are a cottage with the date 1411 carved on its woodwork, and the Rose and Crown tavern, dated 1641.

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  • His wealth and power were enlarged by gift of the parliament which met on the 14th and rose on the 19th of April - a date made notable by the subsequent supper at Ainslie's tavern, where Bothwell obtained the signatures of its leading members to a document affirming his innocence, and pledging the subscribers to maintain it against all challengers, to stand by him in all his quarrels and finally to promote by all means in their power the marriage by which they recommended the queen to reward his services and benefit the country.

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  • His enemies asserted that he died in a low tavern in consequence of a drunken debauch of some days' duration.

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  • Among the principal buildings, besides the hospital and the sanitarium, are several fine churches, the central high school, the Post tavern and the Post theatre.

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  • He was trained, partly at Paris, for the profession of architect, but his opportune assistance to two German nobles in a tavern brawl obtained for him a nomination to the military school of Munich.

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  • In 1813 he exchanged shots with Thomas Hart Benton and his brother Jesse in a Nashville tavern, and received a second wound.

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  • The subscription controversy was then agitating the university, and Paley published an anonymous Defence of a pamphlet in which Bishop Law had advocated the retrenchment and simplification of the Thirty-nine Articles; he did not, however, sign the petition (called the "Feathers" petition from being drawn up at a meeting at the Feathers tavern) for a relaxation of the terms of subscription.

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  • When the Burgesses undertook in May 1769 to declare in vigorous resolutions that the right and power of taxation, direct and indirect, rested with the local assembly, the governor hastily dissolved them, but only to find the same men assembling in the Raleigh tavern in Williamsburg and issuing forth their resolutions in defiance of executive authority.

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  • In May following, when the House of Burgesses was dissolved, he was among the members who met at the Raleigh tavern and adopted a non-importation agreement; and he himself kept the agreement when others did not.

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  • The Buckman Tavern (built about 1690), the rendezvous of the minute-men, and the Munroe Tavern (1695), the headquarters of the British, are still standing, and two other houses, on the common, antedate the War of Independence.

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  • Half a century after his death De Thou mentions that the house in which he was born had become a tavern and then a tennis-court.

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  • He was one of those who met at the White Horse tavern to discuss theological questions, and when Barnes was arrested on a charge of heresy, Coverdale went up to London to assist him in drawing up his defence.

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  • The thieves use the backroom of the tavern or a secret door in the forge to enter the guild.

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  • We had excellent lunch at the traditional Greek fish tavern.

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  • Signs were hung out on all sides to allure him; some to catch him by the appetite, as the tavern and victualling cellar; some by the fancy, as the dry goods store and the jeweller's; and others by the hair or the feet or the skirts, as the barber, the shoemaker, or the tailor.

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  • In the tavern, before which stood the doctor's covered cart, there were already some five officers.

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  • When he had gone, taking his wife with him, and had settled down with her in their covered cart, the officers lay down in the tavern, covering themselves with their wet cloaks, but they did not sleep for a long time; now they exchanged remarks, recalling the doctor's uneasiness and his wife's delight, now they ran out into the porch and reported what was taking place in the covered trap.

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  • As they left the tavern in the twilight of the dawn, Rostov and Ilyin both glanced under the wet and glistening leather hood of the doctor's cart, from under the apron of which his feet were sticking out, and in the middle of which his wife's nightcap was visible and her sleepy breathing audible.

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  • The publican was fighting one of the smiths at the door, and when the workmen came out the smith, wrenching himself free from the tavern keeper, fell face downward on the pavement.

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  • But in the yard there was a light from the fire at Little Mytishchi a mile and a half away, and through the night came the noise of people shouting at a tavern Mamonov's Cossacks had set up across the street, and the adjutant's unceasing moans could still be heard.

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  • The shouting in the tavern had died down; only the moaning of the adjutant was heard.

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  • Ellis owned a small tavern on the island, which was popular with fishermen.

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  • Berea's Boone Tavern Hotel (which is located right on the campus and features 54 guest rooms) is owned and operated by the college.

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  • The tour includes stops at The Walled City, Pirate Tavern and buried treasure.

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  • All this took place at the Tun Tavern and Robert Mullan, the tavern's owner, became captain and recruiter.

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  • The establishment is divided into two floors, with the basement serving as the tavern and the upstairs working to supply hungry travelers with a meal.

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  • They had hardly ridden up a hill, past a tavern, before they saw a group of horsemen coming toward them.

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  • Two tall old peasants with wrinkled faces and scanty beards emerged from the tavern, smiling, staggering, and singing some incoherent song, and approached the officers.

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  • He slowed as he neared the tavern, taking in the amount of armed men gathered outside at such an early time.

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  • She led him into the tavern and up a narrow stone stairwell that went to the roof.

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