beer-engine

Then they went into the bar and drank milk, while she walked about fingering familiar things with an absurd expression of exaltation, as though that day she was fond of everything, even the handles of the beer-engine.

The Return of the Soldier 1918

A man in his shirt-sleeves, who was pulling beer at the bar, left his beer-engine and, coming across the room to Kore, greeted him cordially, and asked him what we would take.

The Man with the Clubfoot Valentine Williams 1914

For exercise, profitable employment at the beer-engine in the bar; for intellectual exercise, the study of practical chemistry in the cellar.

A Master Of Craft 1903

I judged he was at proper distance, an 'thin I tuk him, fair an' square betune the eyes, all I knew for good or bad, an 'he dhropped wid a guggle like the canteen beer-engine whin ut's runnin' low.

Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900

She idly allowed her fingers to rest on the pull of the beer-engine as she inspected him critically.

Jude the Obscure 1896

She idly allowed her fingers to rest on the pull of the beer-engine as she inspected him critically.

Jude the Obscure 1894

For to see that injured female walk into the Sol's Arms at that hour of the morning and stand before the beer-engine, with her eyes fixed upon him like an accusing spirit, strikes him dumb.

Bleak House Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1853

For to see that injured female walk into the Sol's Arms at that hour of the morning and stand before the beer-engine, with her eyes fixed upon him like an accusing spirit, strikes him dumb.

Bleak House Charles Dickens 1841