pot-house

Yet there is one thing I have heard, a sordid pot-house brawl in the

CHAPTER 17 2010

Arnold had made me write it out a thousand times for loafing in a pot-house when I should have been chasing 'cross country at Hare and Hounds. 44 Kagi said it was a fine sentiment, and he'd remember it.

THE NUMBERS 2010

A pot-house was apparently a tavern where you could buy a 'pot' of ale.

The intire account of fome incidents from 257 years ago AYDIN 2007

But eighteen glasses of gin consumed among boxers in an ignoble pot-house — it was an odious crime and not to be pardoned readily.

Vanity Fair 2006

That afternoon I had been worrying my brokers about investments to give my mind something to work on, and on my way home I turned into my club — rather a pot-house, which took in Colonial members.

The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

But this once managed, and a cart procured in the neighbourhood, they were able to spend the night in a pot-house on Ault Bea.

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

The shout on the other side still continued, and two shots were fired from a revolver, probably with the idea that the ferrymen were asleep or had gone to the pot-house in the village.

The Schoolmistress and other stories 2004

The poet ought to have told me that there were two houses in L — bearing the sign of the — Arms, and that I must fight shy of the hotel and steer for the pot-house, and when I gave the order I certainly ought to have been a little more explicit; when I said a pint I ought to have added — of ale.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

But the maid had said he kept a pot-house, and no pot-houses have wine-licences; but the maid after all might be an envious baggage, and no better than she should be.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

He, navvy as he was, with his infernal friends and pot-house love, with his debts and idleness and low associations, with his saloons of Seville, his

The Three Clerks 2004