saloon-keeper

When the man so helped has money again, depend upon it that a portion will be spent across the bar of the saloon-keeper who befriended him.

Chapter 21 2010

In distress, when a man has no other place to turn, when he hasn't the slightest bit of security which a savage-hearted pawn-broker would consider, he can go to some saloon-keeper he knows.

Chapter 21 2010

MacDonald weighed one hundred and eighty pounds, and Daylight had him gripped solely by his hand; yet, by a sheer abrupt jerk, he took the saloon-keeper off his feet and flung him face downward in the snow.

Chapter III 2010

"I never bet in the teeth of a pat hand," he said slowly, looking at the saloon-keeper.

Chapter 2 2010

This saloon-keeper I had known by sight for a couple of years.

Chapter 21 2010

She had obeyed her mother; obeyed Cady, the saloon-keeper, and Cady's wife; obeyed the matron and the other women in the orphan asylum; obeyed Tom when she came to live in his house, and never run in the streets because he didn't wish her to.

CHAPTER XV 2010

"By Gar! you've got an Irish tongue in your head anyhow," cried the saloon-keeper, not quite certain whether to humour this audacious visitor or to stand upon his dignity.

Chennai 2010

John McEvers, a saloon-keeper at this place, shot his wife through the back of the head with a rifle to-day, the ball coming out in front and tearing away her lower jaw.

'Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S. 2008

Miss Kitty is the saloon-keeper with the heart of gold in TV's Gunsmoke, a PG-rated stand-in for all the good-hearted madams and prostitutes who have populated every horse opera since The Virginian.

Landon Jones: Girl of the Golden West 2008

"The saloon-keeper held a shade higher rank than any other member of society," Mark Twain recalled in "Roughing It," his memoir of days out West.

The Old West Nods to the East 2008