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  • With the same reverential feeling we examined the seamen — the young gentleman in the bows of the boat — the handsome young officers of marines we met sauntering in the town next day — the Scotch surgeon who boarded us as we weighed anchor — every man, down to the broken-nosed mariner who was drunk in a wine-house, and had “Caledonia” written on his hat.

    Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

  • Returning home drunk late one night after cavorting all evening with a courtesan at a wine-house, our hero is confronted by Golden Lotus, his angry, sexually voracious Number 6 wife.

    The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity Daniel Reid 1989

  • Or you will perhaps be aroused from sleep, as Caper often was, by the long-drawn-out cadences of some countryman singing a _rondinella_ as he staggers along the street, fresh from a wine-house.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • Of warriors and wives, who straightway that wine-house

    The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous

  • Eleanor peeped into the door of a wine-house, peeped over a board fence, and came back to announce:

    The Readjustment Will Irwin 1910

  • He's probably a traveling agent for a Vienna glass-factory, or a drummer for a cheap wine-house, or the agent for a Munich brewery.

    The Port of Missing Men Meredith Nicholson 1906

  • A number of empty barrels still lay outside the wine-house waiting to be put on.

    Adventures Of Gerard Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1903

  • At that point there is a small wine-house, round which I perceived some carts and a number of people, the first that I had seen.

    Adventures Of Gerard Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1903

  • A number of empty barrels still lay outside the wine-house waiting to be put on.

    The Adventures of Gerard Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1903

  • Forth from that wine-house he ran into the sheltering night, till safe under the shadow of the black cypresses.

    A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903

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