oyster-cellar

Day was just beginning to dawn when I passed the open door of an oyster-cellar, from which two men were emerging.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 Various

Indeed, he used to be accused of preaching in his poetry by gentle critics who held that Elysium was to be found in an oyster-cellar, and that intemperance was the royal prerogative of genius.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Various

Whether you sell it in low oyster-cellar or behind the polished counter of a first-class hotel, the divine curse is upon you.

The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little Grenville Kleiser 1910

Men wishing to gamble will find places just suited to their capacity, not only in the underground oyster-cellar, or at the table back of the curtain, covered with greasy cards, or in the steamboat smoking cabin, where the bloated wretch with rings in his ears deals out his pack, and winks in the unsuspecting traveller, -- providing free drinks all around, -- but in gilded parlors and amid gorgeous surroundings.

The Abominations of Modern Society 1867

This was an oyster-cellar which had been recently opened under the Arch Street

Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

With a scrape of the foot, and such a bow as only a negro can make, the old cook marched off with his fortune; and I have no doubt at once invested it in a grand, underground oyster-cellar.

Redburn. His First Voyage Herman Melville 1855

It was in the evening; and he invited me down into his sanctum to supper; and there we sat together like a couple in a box at an oyster-cellar.

Redburn. His First Voyage Herman Melville 1855

Well, I thought I opened the box and found in it a little iron man, in regimentals; with his sword by his side and a cocked hat on, looking very much like the picture in the transparency over neighbor O'Neal's oyster-cellar across the way.

Tales and Sketches, Complete Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

Well, I thought I opened the box and found in it a little iron man, in regimentals; with his sword by his side and a cocked hat on, looking very much like the picture in the transparency over neighbor O'Neal's oyster-cellar across the way.

The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

Well, I thought I opened the box and found in it a little iron man, in regimentals; with his sword by his side and a cocked hat on, looking very much like the picture in the transparency over neighbor O'Neal's oyster-cellar across the way.

Tales and Sketches Part 3, from Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849