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  • James Towne, in her later days, seems to have had a "taverne" or two even when she had scarcely anything else; and doubtless these

    Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins

  • In truth, there was nothing olde about ye taverne at all, not the calibrated sag in the roofe, not the artificially lumpy bricke floore, not the broade, fake beams spanning the quaintly lowe ceilinge.

    The Deed Keith Blanchard 2003

  • In truth, there was nothing olde about ye taverne at all, not the calibrated sag in the roofe, not the artificially lumpy bricke floore, not the broade, fake beams spanning the quaintly lowe ceilinge.

    The Deed Keith Blanchard 2003

  • In truth, there was nothing olde about ye taverne at all, not the calibrated sag in the roofe, not the artificially lumpy bricke floore, not the broade, fake beams spanning the quaintly lowe ceilinge.

    The Deed Keith Blanchard 2003

  • Cotgrave, Dictionarie, says that a rostisseur is “a roster of meat; also a Cooke that sells, or dresses, none but rost-meat”; a taverne “is also (in some few places no better than) a victualling house”; and a tavernier is “a Vintner, Tauerne-keeper, Wine-drawer; also in some places a Victualler, of whom (as in our Tauernes of London) one may haue meat, and drink for his money.”

    Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

  • Cotgrave, Dictionarie, says that a rostisseur is “a roster of meat; also a Cooke that sells, or dresses, none but rost-meat”; a taverne “is also (in some few places no better than) a victualling house”; and a tavernier is “a Vintner, Tauerne-keeper, Wine-drawer; also in some places a Victualler, of whom (as in our Tauernes of London) one may haue meat, and drink for his money.”

    Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

  • And then he tells how one night he dropped in at the Opera for the last act "and there found Mr. Sanchy and Mr.. Mary Archer, sister to the fair Betty, whom I did admire at Cambridge, and thence took them to the Fleece in Covent Garden; but Mr. Sanchy could not by any argument get his lady to trust herself with him into the taverne, which he was much troubled at."

    Inns and Taverns of Old London

  • William et John Scott, plus tard Lord Stowell et Lord Eldon, ayant obtenu quelque succès comme avocats; dans leurs jeunes aimées, avaient résolu de célébrer l'événement par un dîner à la taverne, après quoi l'on irait au théâtre.

    Collections and Recollections George William Erskine Russell 1886

  • But when they departed, there remained neither taverne, beere house, nor place of reliefe, but the common Kettell.

    Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562—1733 Various 1885

  • It is the other expence of a day after playes and the taverne ... and men have still some othes left to swear here ....

    Old St. Paul's Cathedral William Benham 1870

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