tavern-haunter

Popularity is a busy talker: she catches hold of topics and offers them to fame without giving herself time to reflect whether they are true or false, and fashion is her favourite disciple who sanctions and believes them as eagerly, and with the same faith, as a young lady in the last century read a new novel and a tavern-haunter in this reads the news.

Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" J. L. Cherry

"This to my face, thou vile creeper of ditches, thou unsavoury tavern-haunter -- this in my teeth!"

The Geste of Duke Jocelyn Jeffery Farnol 1915

Popularity is a busy talker: she catches hold of topics and offers them to fame without giving herself time to reflect whether they are true or false, and fashion is her favourite disciple who sanctions and believes them as eagerly, and with the same faith, as a young lady in the last century read a new novel and a tavern-haunter in this reads the news.

Life and Remains of John Clare Cherry, J L 1872

The barber's own handiwork had so cleansed and shaved his countenance, had so trimmed and readjusted his locks that his face now shone as different from the face of the tavern-haunter as the face of the moon shines from the face of a lantern.

If I Were King Justin McCarthy 1871

At any rate, Hugh Crombie's effusions, tavern-haunter and vagrant though he was, have gained a continuance of fame (confined, indeed, to a narrow section of the country), which many who called themselves poets then, and would have scorned such a brother, have failed to equal.

Fanshawe Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

Take this boy as the germ of a tavern-haunter, a country roue, to spend a wild and brutal youth, ten years of his prime in the State Prison, and his old age in the poorhouse.

Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

I know not of a proper idler or tavern-haunter in the place. "

Cape Cod 1865