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  • We were informed, that the schoolmaster was in company at a publichouse in the neighbourhood, whither we repaired, and found him drinking with the very individual apothecary in question.

    The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

  • In its whole constitution it had not a straight floor, and hardly a straight line; but it had outlasted, and clearly would yet outlast, many a better-trimmed building, many a sprucer publichouse.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • I was told by Johnny McAndless, he was terribly full last night at McArn's publichouse and talking -- ach -- the greatest blethers about this new invention of his.

    The Drone A Play in Three Acts Rutherford Mayne

  • We made so many deviations up and down lanes, and were such a long time delivering a bedstead at a publichouse, and calling at other places, that I was quite tired, and very glad, when we saw Yarmouth.

    III. I Have a Change 1917

  • I see myself emerging one evening from some of these arches, on a little publichouse close to the river, with an open space before it, where some coalheavers were dancing; to look at whom, I sat down upon a bench.

    XI. I Begin Life on My Own Account, and Don’t Like It 1917

  • On asking for the man, he was directed to a mean publichouse in a remote corner of the little town; and, having mounted up-stairs there to the very garret, his ear caught the fine twanging of the harp coming from a little room before him.

    Chapter XIII. Book II 1917

  • He could dig all day long and be happy; he gathered in the harvest as another would gather in a bride; and, in the intervals between these occupations, he fled to the nearest publichouse and wallowed among his kind.

    Here are Ladies James Stephens 1916

  • They sang or talked as unconcernedly as they might have done in the bar-room of some publichouse at home.

    Out of Time's Abyss Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • Walking by Doran's publichouse he slid his hand between his waistcoat and trousers and, pulling aside his shirt gently, felt a slack fold of his belly.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Father Conmee went by Daniel Bergin's publichouse against the window of which two unlabouring men lounged.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

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