public-houses

He resurrected the harmonica with which it was his wont, ashore in public-houses, to while away the time between bottles.

CHAPTER VII 2010

I drift with the crowd out of the square into a tangle of narrow streets, where the public-houses are a-roar with drunkenness, men, women, and children mixed together in colossal debauch.

CORONATION DAY 2010

Beyond Victoria the public-houses were doing a lively trade with these arrivals.

The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

All human life is there, outside the hospital: flaming gas-lights, oranges, oysters, paper lanterns, butchers and grocers, bakers and public-houses, omnibuses rattling by.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

All human life is there, outside the hospital: flaming gas-lights, oranges, oysters, paper lanterns, butchers and grocers, bakers and public-houses, omnibuses rattling by.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

All human life is there, outside the hospital: flaming gas-lights, oranges, oysters, paper lanterns, butchers and grocers, bakers and public-houses, omnibuses rattling by.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

After council holden in the street, we enter other lodging-houses, public-houses, many lairs and holes; all noisome and offensive; none so filthy and so crowded as where Irish are.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

The Lumpers dispose of their booty easily to marine store dealers, and the only remedy to be suggested is that marine store shops should be licensed, and thus brought under the eye of the police as rigidly as public-houses.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

Not only the loss of his way by night in the Fulham times — when a bad subject of an Englishman, under pretence of seeing him home, took him into all the night public-houses, drank ‘arfanarf’ in every one at his expense, and finally fled, leaving him shipwrecked at Cleefeeway, which we apprehend to be

Reprinted Pieces 2007

Outside the public-houses were parties smoking, drinking, playing draughts and cards, and (once) dancing.

Pictures from Italy 2007