How To Use Tavern In A Sentence

[From Vivaculus:]… I hasted to London, and entreated one of my academical acquaintances to introduce me into some of the little societies of literature which are formed in taverns and coffee - houses.
Stopped at the Waikino Tavern and had a coldie - as always when I'm passing.
Not far short of the Oregon border, I stopped for a beer at a tiny townlet in a wilderness of sage that had a post office, a tavern and not much else.
The pub with the most atmosphere is tiny Turf Tavern, which you get to by following two long, creepy, almost unnavigable alleys off a winding back street.
Three cars forward the steward unlocks the kitchen, the pantryman begins to prepare bread and muffins, and Ashby's Tavern awakens for breakfast.

Her mouth was watering as she entered the tavern on the bottom level of the inn.
As they quickly let you know, they eat bread, not chapattis; drink in tavernas, not tea shops; many of them were Roman Catholic, not Hindu; and their musicians played guitars and sang fados.
I began composing an introduction praising the spiritual enlightenment exhibited in choosing to congregate in taverns, like 1849 San Jose legislators stepping in from muddy streets to drink whisky on barrelheads, before plotting out the future of nascent California.
Mike was struck by how much the hotel resembled old taverns that he'd read about.
If the Citadel's desecration had cut him to the core, then Tavern Street was like rubbing salt into the wound. TREASON KEEP
After arriving in Britain in the late 18th century, it quickly became popular in inns and taverns.
He was hard at work becoming paralytic in the Ship tavern when I arrived. THE TARTAN RINGERS
According to the pirate legend, after months at sea, pillaging and singing sea chanties, the marauders had to stop in at a pirate-friendly settlement to unload their looted cargo, load up on supplies, and visit the local taverns and brothels. Loaded Guns, Barrels of Rum, and a Silk Ribbon
The palace of the Sylphides was a tavern, and Clarice, the neglected fiancee of besotted Eraste, made an appearance as a laundress, boxed her sylph-sotted betrothed about the ears, then pulled him off stage to the applause of the audience. Archive 2009-03-01
Immediately, offers poured in -- from a taverna in the wealthy neighborhood of Kolonaki, from a big baked goods chain, from green grocers in the wholesale market of Rendi, from caterers with leftovers from weddings and baptisms -- and were directed to orphanages, old age homes, halfway houses for the handicapped, soup kitchens run by churches and municipalities all over the Athens area. Diana Farr Louis: Food Aid Takes Off in Athens
Ames's tavern sign, then, plays on the tension between lawyers with formal legal training like Dudley, and village tavern keepers and pettifoggers like Ames himself.
Westgate says that she came into the company, and scolded at and called her husband, whereupon I, took her husband's part, telling her it was an unbeseeming thing for her to come after him to the tavern, and rail after that rate. History of American Women
Alissa took the jug bar-hopping, at least until the manager of one tavern called police to report it stolen.
Men sat inside the taverns drinking and brawling or looking for the company of a woman.
The girl worked as a waitress in her father's tavern through the very door we're standing next to.
Tavernas were full to bursting and taped or real Greek Music added its own charm to the scene.
You can eat well at one of the noodle shops or fast-food places for less than $10, or you can wine and dine more expensively and elegantly at a place like the Ship's Tavern.
The first settlers from Europe, having braved the wild Atlantic for a strange and tavern-bare land, can't be faulted for slapping beer together from whatever scraps they could find. Gourd Lovin'
It was the time of night when families would just be settling down for dinner, and just before the taverns and inns would become filled with their nightly guests.
The ministry should take the lead to commandeer the general public to clean up public places like schools, bars, markets and taverns which form the core of a high-risk reference point before the rains.
She disregarded the laws governing tavern hours, and stayed open late into the night, allowing her customers, some only in their teens, to drink and play the forbidden game of shovelboard, carousing loudly enough to disturb the neighbors' sleep. History of American Women
The 23-year-old marketing coordinator for BHS Corrugated certainly hit the mark when we "glimpsed" her at the Blue Hill Tavern in Canton. Undefined
To tie together a book that covers the colonial-era tavern, the frontier barrelhouse, the high-toned New York City saloon, the German beer-garden, the speakeasy, the cocktail lounge, the gay bar and even the contemporary neo-speakeasy, a writer needs a grand theme. The All-American Place
On Sixtieth Street east of Fourth Avenue I found a dark beery tavern called the Fjord. WHEN THE SACRED GINMILL CLOSES
For a true taste of Croatian Adriatic cuisine seek out the tiny tavernas where you can eat superb local fish and sea food.
The dark treacly colours of Adriaen Brouwer's Interior of a Tavern suit the murk and smoke of the pot-houses favoured by that grimly observant wastrel.
Such things are no doubt very excellent, but they do not promote intensity of feeling, fervour of mind; and as art is in itself an outcry against the animality of human existence, it would be well that the life of the artist should be a practical protest against the so-called decencies of life; and he can best protest by frequenting a tavern and cutting his club. Confessions of a Young Man
Many diced, drank, argued and talked throughout the tavern, mostly on rough-hewn tables and benches that were placed somewhat haphazardly on the sawdust covered floor.
One visitor to a black tavern in the Five Points heard a hybrid music: “In the Negro melodies you catch a strain of what has been metamorphosed from such Scotch or Irish tune, into somewhat of a chiming jiggish air.” A Renegade History of the United States
In the middle of town was a tavern, where a merry troupe of Spandex-clad cyclists quaffed golden pilsners around a long picnic table. Bohemian Rhapsody on Two Wheels
As he took her to a tavern in York, Nance explained that she had left her lover, a married highwayman.
On Sundays and Mondays, some workers may have skipped the fair to go to the cabarets or taverns in the suburbs (where wine and food were cheaper), though the extent of this custom should not be exaggerated.
One young buckeen said, if I'd go into the tavern and take share of a quart of mulled beer with him, he'd make that bargain with me, and that so vexed me that I turned home at once.
Overlooked by a small taverna, its waters remain calm, as they are protected by two rocky promontories. Times, Sunday Times
During the Sugar Act crisis, Benjamin Franklin and other prominent Pennsylvanians repeatedly and fruitlessly petitioned the colonial government to take action against taverns and drinking. A Renegade History of the United States
The kitchen'll be turning out seasonal, elevated tavern victuals including a trio of rotating savory pies e.g., lamb & rosemary, curried chicken; hare/wood pigeon/venison-filled Poacher's Soup; Lancashire hot pots w/ braised lamb shoulder; and, sided by a savoy cabbage & wild mushroom casserole, a roasted Berkshire rack, which can happen pretty quickly considering how pale everyone is there. Thrillist: Jones Wood Foundry: A Pub With Proprietary Beer and Meat Pies
A company, after having taken leave of their host, often went to finish the evening at the clachan or village, in ‘womb of tavern.’ Waverley
Initially a documentarist, Bertuccelli got her teeth in directing by working as an assistant with such greats as Tavernier and Kieslowski. Karin Badt: Women Directors are Rare (For Now): An Interview with Julie Bertuccelli at Cannes
It had become boisterous and quite noisy so the Tavern owner had devised a way to get all the customers off each others' throats.
A string of restaurants ranging from fine dining through to a Greek taverna and a pizza terrace dot the seafront, with its classical views out to the island of Zakynthos.
Most Dutch genre, however, depicted the life of the better-off, often in scenes of household life, but also in markets, barrack rooms, taverns, inns, and brothels.
Variations on a theme that come together with that touch of raw thyme that harkens back to the days he was working with Colicchio at the Tavern, and mustard greens and parmesan adding hottish astringency and sourness, middling the dish right at the level food in a restaurant called Hearth should be. Augieland:
He had left his sword belt and dagger in the tavern.
And as every ‘victualer’ knows, you will certainly need a nifty name for your tacky tavern besides, ‘Stickey Wicket Pub’, ‘Waddling Dog’ or ‘Toad-in-the-Hole’ (which are already taken).
Ingredients like olive tapénade and truffle vinaigrette have become routine at Tavern, deliberately raising its level of culinary sophistication.
At Uplands Betty caught a glimpse of Aunt Lydia between the silver poplars, and called joyfully from the window; but the words were lost in the rattling of the wheels; and as she lay back in her corner, Uplands was left behind, and in a little while they passed into the tavern road and went on beneath the shade of interlacing branches. The Battle Ground
There are people who look like artizans and who never drink anything but champagne, and walk to the tavern on red baize which is laid down from their hut to the tavern. Letters of Anton Chekhov
The third supervises the tavern and the food and drink being served by her husbands.
Many of the seven hundred soldiers stationed in the city were being quartered in the homes and taverns of Bostonians, and fights broke out nearly every day over their presence in the city. A Renegade History of the United States
The horses munched their grain, stamped and whiffled, and filled the derelict tavern with the pungent scent of their droppings. Conqueror's Moon
As Tavernier himself points out in one of the extra feature interviews on the DVD, Clouzot is able to establish each character's background and class in a few moments of screen time.
The third supervises the tavern and the food and drink being served by her husbands.
Hal and Sir John spend their nights padding about the taverns and whorehouses of London together, producing dialogue such as this.
This art is so far advanced in Paris that there are tavernkeepers who will give you something to eat at their places for all prices, for a teston, for an écu, for four, for ten, even for twenty apiece if you wish it, but for twenty écus I hope they will give you manna en potage or roast phoenix, or whatever in the world is most precious.13 Savoring The Past
The servant at Blackwood Castle (Grimsby, played by Artur Binder) tries to frighten Jane by placing a snake in her bed (one of many he cares for in the cellar); a neighboring inn begins to see unprecedented seasonal business from visitors (Horst Tappert as "Douglas Fairbanks," CARMEN, BABY's Uta Levka) showing unusual interest in Blackwood Castle... and each other; and the two seemingly harmless old fogies playing chess in the inn's tavern are using a tricked-out chesspiece to send messages to the snake-caring servant. Archive 2006-04-23
Tavern, where we had a final and totally unfructuous meeting with the The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
The Sangaree dates back to colonial times and was a favorite of tavern-goers, along with grogs, flips, punches and mulled wines.
Drawing inspiration from the congeniality of his surroundings, one Thomas Cuddemour drew up a list in a Dartmouth tavern of local men he would kill once the January 1400 plotters had succeeded in despatching Henry IV.
Sutherland says her mother didn't drink much at home, but often came home drunk from local taverns.
Sarod was a ruddy, old town, made up of mostly taverns and inns.
The afternoon was their own, and most soldiers spent their free time mooning over the girl at the tavern.
Whether you get a hot dog at the cafeteria or you're having a state dinner at the Tavern, people need to give us more credit than what they do sometimes," said Solobay, referring to a pricey restaurant near Harrisburg. Kansas City Star: Front Page
Book of Kells: their dispersal, persecution, survival and revival: the isolation of their synagogical and ecclesiastical rites in ghetto (S. Mary's Abbey) and masshouse (Adam and Eve's tavern): the proscription of their national costumes in penal laws and jewish dress acts: the restoration in Chanah David of Zion and the possibility of Irish political autonomy or devolution. Ulysses
A group of friends are having a drink in a tavern with Matthew among them.
Like Buck's Store and Dougherty's Tavern, the Custom House is laid in a Flemish bond with glazed headers.
John Goff, waiter at the Mitre tavern, related, that the prisoner, with a woman and child, came to their house some time about two o'clock on Sunday the 5th of December: they had two quarterns of rum, two pints of porter, and went away about half past four.
*** Drinks Punch Taverns, one of the U.K.'s largest pub groups, said it will dramatically shrink its struggling tenanted operations and spin off its better-performing managed-pubs division into a separate listed company before the end of the summer in a bid to overhaul the group and restructure its heavy debt. Business Watch
He was early in life set to labour with an uncle, a tavern-keeper in Clerkenwell, under whom he bottled, corked, and binned wine for more than five years.
They must have learnt from the landlord that I had my ear to their window when he had arrived, and it is most likely that they, the devil priest in particular, would have recognised me from the tavern where I had first overheard their scheming.
The tavern owners stampeded us into overeating
The farewell dinner is at the historic Abbey Tavern, located in the fishing village of Howth.
But humans are nothing if not ingenious and when they wanted to get pie-eyed they never really needed a tavern.
Walking past a taverna after a few bevvies one night, his eyes lit on a display cabinet with what appeared to be succulent roasted half-chickens going round on the spit.
Even in an epic length period drama like The Princess of Montpensierwith its sweeping battle scenes and violence, the love the young womanof the title experiences for Henri de Guise Gaspard Ulliel, the rakish heartthrob of her youth is what matters most to director Bertrand Tavernier. Regina Weinreich: My Rendez-Vous with French Cinema
An old tale tells of a holy priest who visited his nephew, a scurrilous tavern-keeper.
The first was a kind of taverna; the other was more classic. Women I Have Dressed (and Undressed!)
For some time before leaving the room in the tavern she had turned the coins restlessly over and over under her kerchief, and meanwhile, as if in a dream, made but evasive answers to the questions and demands of In the Blue Pike — Volume 03
It's a dockside tavern---not the sort of place you'd feel comfortable. DEVIL'S BRIDE
Eventually the inebriated band were inveigled to call at a particular tavern where Hunter's hired help had made prior arrangements.
Seeing the fields rimmed by trees or the homey, rundown tavern really makes the earth and the rain palpable to the reader. The Color of Earth, The Color of Water, The Color of Heaven » Manga Worth Reading
He was hard at work becoming paralytic in the Ship tavern when I arrived. THE TARTAN RINGERS
Mahog is brandy as served in township shebeens (many now legalized as taverns) and possibly from English mahogany.
Visitors can expect high standards of accommodation, friendly locals, a good choice of restaurants, bars, tavernas, nightclubs and shopping.
It was used as an inn or tavern in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
He'd gotten blitzed at Tacky's Tavern and came home at bar time smelling like a brewery.
Devil, whilk is but an ill-omened drouthy name for a tavern. The Fortunes of Nigel
John Crockett moved still westward to this Holston valley, where he reared a pretty large log house on this forest road; and opened what he called a tavern for the entertainment of teamsters and other emigrants. David Crockett
The Dublin pub, inn or tavern has a history which is as old as the city itself.
Can I interest you in an afternoon of spirited questing followed by a flagon of ale at Yon Virtual Tavern?Yeah, sure, why not?
The cabarets of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine resemble those taverns of Mont Aventine erected on the cave of the Sibyl and communicating with the profound and sacred breath; taverns where the tables were almost tripods, and where was drunk what Ennius calls the sibylline wine. Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis
1840 - In a beer tavern known as Corse Halle, near Berlin, barmaids on rolling skates served thirsty patrons.
The finely attired strangers who inhabited the canal taverns did not impress his worldly eye as they did the local settlers.
In England pubs were either inns, providing accommodation and food to wealthy travellers; or taverns, providing only wine and spirits to the local neighbourhood; or alehouses, selling only beer to a poorer clientele.
Like Ostade's yokels, the topers of Brouwer's Antwerp frequent a lower sort of tavern than those of Teniers and Steen.
In this instance, Richards's doctorship was of the double utility of delivering us from the threatened pint-glasses, and of causing us to be considered as privileged guests -- no small advantage in a backwoods 'tavern, occupied as the headquarters of an electioneering party. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844
Bedford," but lately discontinued; and there is the Annual Dinner to the printers and the rest given by the firm -- the first of which, under the name of "wayzgoose," took place at the "Highbury Barn Tavern. The History of "Punch"
A strange quiet followed the storm, in which people gathered and talked in hushed voices, and men with red-stained bandages drank their ale silently in the taverns along the river bank. The Conquering Sword Of Conan
Reynolds painted his florid, bald, ruddy countenance many times, and for decades less distinguished portraits swung outside countless taverns.
It is exceedingly difficult to misapprehend discovering my wife in a dockside tavern. DEVIL'S BRIDE
While she was perhaps best known for her portrayal as Elisabeth, Empress Consort of Austria in various popcorn romance films throughout her career, it was later work with luminaries such as Luchino Visconti, Claude Chabrol and Bertrand Tavernier that established Schneider as a screen legend. What's On Around Europe
Nightclubs, shebeens and taverns in Rosettenville and Turffontein were targeted by Johannesburg's metro police on Friday night in a crime prevention operation.
You can't do a wuxia film without having a tavern fight.
Traditionally run by women and without licences, today's shebeens and taverns are a profitable option based on humanity's fondness for the occasional toot.
Sure, it used to be locally caught walleye or perch, served up at the neighborhood tavern with a healthy stein of Milwaukee's best beer.
He might have writ himself _armigero_ in many a bill, or obligation, or quittance, or what not; he might have left something behind him save unpaid tavern bills; he might have heard cases, harried poachers, and quoted old saws; and slept in his own family chapel through sermons yet unwrit, beneath his presentment, done in stone, and a comforting bit of Latin: but he is dead long since. The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages
The tavern was lively, bustling with movement and much drinking.
Bukowski Tavern, a craft-beer bar, isn't exactly what I'd call "swanky," on account of the high tattoo coverage, but it did serve as the perfect search result when I told the app I wanted to be "around hipsters" also, I believe, a circle of hell. The Digital Bar Crawl
And so they worked in different inns and taverns.
The church-ales provided competition for the secular supply of beverages from the taverns and alehouses.
I have, indeed, to some extent gone with strange women, but I have not delayed over long in taverns to watch the young Syrians dance to the sound of the crotalum. Penguin Island
In the thorp was a tavern with the sign of the Nicholas, so Ralph deemed it but right to enter a house which was under the guard of his master and friend; therefore he lighted down and went in. The Well at the World's End: a tale
The band recently played a concert at the Beacon Court Tavern in his home town of Gillingham.
Almost all working free women of colour laboured in towns, as tavern-keepers and innkeepers, petty retailers, seamstresses, laundresses, and domestics.
The game arrived in Britain in the late 18th Century from France (possibly via French prisoners of war) and quickly seems to have become popular in inns and taverns at the time.
Souyia proved another low-key mix of tavernas and bars fronting a pebbly beach.
As it had been a halfway house on the road to Troy and travelers continued to stop there asking for a meal or a night's lodging, they took them in, and young Daniel served them food and nonintoxicating drinks at the old tavern bar. Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian
In place of the tavern a cotton-field was ablush with blossoms. The Cavalier
Operation Night Life, with the Gauteng Tourism Authority, focuses on tourist's spots, taverns, shebeens and clubs.
The Tavern, the best theatre of natures"; in "The Bowl-alley, an emblem of the world where some few justle in to the mistress fortune"; in Paul's Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
Thasos passed measures to prevent wine-shops becoming bars, while the fact that taverns were so popular in Byzantium and Athens revealed the essentially vulgar character of democratic societies.
Last night I arrived at this tavern to wet my throat and espied you already here. Archive 2010-02-01
Other problems were man-made, the culprits being the taverns and alewives who produced perhaps the bulk of the ale consumed outside the great households. SPICE: The History of a Temptation
These men mingled late at night in Sucre's chicha taverns after the lesser customers were shooed out.
Bohemus saith, to kiss coming and going, et modo absit lascivia, in cauponem ducere, to talk merrily, sport, play, sing, and dance so that it be modestly done, go to the alehouse and tavern together. Anatomy of Melancholy
For when the use of wine was first found out, it was taken for a thing medicinable, and not used for a common drinke, and was to be found rather in apothecaries 'shops than in tavernes. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 348, December 27, 1828
On Sunday June 1st a large crowd of walkers left Belmullet to walk 10 miles to the Lighthouse Tavern for Charity.
About a mile on, where the beach runs out, the Greeks gather in a taverna to guzzle spit-roasted pork washed down with local beer.
With a few boxes like this one, he could buy that tavern he wanted and offer cool drinks in the summer.
There was a steady line of traffic, here, as the Manhattan Bridge carried lines of cars into Brooklyn, but just to the left of the bridge, catty-corner to the site of the old tavern, a different kind of line had begun to form, beneath a large sign with a bright red arrow pointing down to a ticket booth. The King's Best Highway
Now rumors of invasion of the Sword Marches or of the trans-Mardun territories were regular fare in the inns and taverns, and many of the merchants spoke of relocating to the coastal provinces for the duration of the hostilities. The Brothers' War
And what would Adams have found if one morning he had clopped into one of the taverns along his way to creating the American republic? A Renegade History of the United States
One happy illustration of the customs of the sixteenth century was the habit of the barber-surgeon's boy, who amused the customers, waiting for "next turn" to be shaved or bled, with his ballad or rhyming verse; and a boy with a good voice proved a rare draw to the "bloods" about town, and those who frequented the taverns and ordinaries within the City. A History of Nursery Rhymes
We had met Seamus a bit earlier over in the nearby Bull's Head tavern where some of the folks were dining.
They dominate nearly half the tavern's area, loudly drinking, singing, boxing, and otherwise wassailing to the extent that almost nothing else can be heard or done by others.
A strange quiet followed the storm, in which people gathered and talked in hushed voices, and men with red-stained bandages drank their ale silently in the taverns along the river bank. The Conquering Sword Of Conan
‘I met him in the Three Crowns tavern,’ one chronicler reported, ‘occupying more space at the bar than the chucker-out should allow.
Until about 1830, many Americans gambled in taverns and at cockfights, while gentlemen bet on horse races.
Johnson called a tavern chair "the throne of human felicity. A Melancholy
When their meal arrived, he forgot about them and did not notice the furtive glances the two reclusive men cast their way, although he glanced idly at them when they left the tavern.
(Jane Birkin costarred with Dirk Bogarde in Daddy Nostalgia directed by Bertrand Tavernier.) Miranda July at the End Of May + Tavernier, Jane Birkin & Merchant
Kenneth strolled about the town for awhile before returning to the tavern to shave, change his boots, and "smarten" himself up a bit in preparation for the ceremonious call he had dreaded to make. Viola Gwyn
It's evident at City Tavern , a mecca for 20 - somethings in San Francisco's ritzy Marina district.
Until the end of the nineteenth century the majority of darts thrown in inns and taverns in this country and utilised in fairgrounds were imported from France.
Third place" is a decades-old term championed by sociologist Ray Oldenburg for venues which bring people together in the tradition of the American colonial tavern or general store. Charles R. Wolfe: Assuring Sustainable Third Places in the City
In the center of the tavern was a very unordinary fountain.
But it proved inedible and they ended up going having to out for a meal at the Village Tavern.
These establishments were divided into inns, alehouses and taverns which had separate and distinct functions.
Other witnesses were washerwomen, tavern keepers, or dockworkers.
Against such descriptions, he juxtaposes the opinions of racists, embodied in the seedy character of Wilkes, the boastful character of Williams, and in the ‘other hangers-on’ and ‘tars’ at the Virginian tavern and Marine Coffee-House.
Greece is hot in the summer, so make like the locals: take long siestas, then stay up late, letting the kids play in the cool of the night while you linger in a taverna.
There were wind surfers in the sparkling water and, just beyond the next taverna, a queue of bathers waiting for an outdoor shower. SURE OF YOU
While having his meal, the stranger listened to the minstrel who was performing in the tavern.
We love taverns because they're unpretentious and appear to be impervious to the mainstream.
The box of shells was left at the tavern of Levi Cozzens, in Utica, where they remained two years, waiting for some one to claim them; about this time Mr. C., closing up his concern, opened the box and gave the shells to his children for playthings, and sent the mocock of sugar (which had your name on or about it) to his mother. Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
Now it is a narrow, bustling thoroughfare of Greek tavernas and kebab shops.
Traditionally run by women and without licences, today's shebeens and taverns are a profitable option based on humanity's fondness for the occasional toot.
14th century Byzantine ramparts radiate from here, mostly overlooked by 20th century apartments, tavernas and cafes, yet it feels more like an overgrown village.
For instance, councils run liquor undertaking establishments in form of taverns which complemented their income generation initiatives.
The wharf was a few blocks down on their right; Dannors flat was to the left, past the tavern and over the footbridge. A CALL TO DARKNESS
The new "Harry Potter" addition in the Los Angeles park, Universal Studios Hollywood, will likely resemble the one in Florida, these people say, which includes a Hogwarts Castle, roller coasters, and several Potter-themed restaurants including the Hog's Head tavern, which serves butterbeer, as in the books. Second 'Harry Potter' Park Planned
Step inside the restaurant and you'll be transported to a Greek taverna, as the wonderful aroma of Mediterranean cooking fills the air.
For nearly two years he tried to adopt Day's anarcho-pacifist politics and her devotion to Catholic orthodoxy, while spending his evenings at the White Horse Tavern.
Pour me a glass of rum and within the vapors rises a raucous and even romantic history of joy, tragedy and debauchery: tippling houses in Barbados in the early 1600's, where British settlers supped the earliest permutation of rum, which they referred to as "kill-devil"; jug wielding pirates careening through the streets of Port Royal in Jamaica, wildly spending their pieces of eight plundered from the Spanish and British empires; independence-minded American revolutionaries huddled in taverns drinking rum Flips and plotting their resistance against the heavy taxes imposed upon them by the British; Americans fleeing Prohibition downing Daiquiris and Swizzles in the jammed bars of Havana; opulent tiki palaces serving Mai Tais, flaming Scorpion bowls, Hurricanes and Fog Cutters to lei-festooned business-men and June Cleaveresque housewives. Slashfood
We were dining at Bruno's restaurant, La Taverne du Port, overlooking the quayside where a symphony of boats bobbed and jangled in the harbour.
Lynn sighed, and followed her, while Pip headed towards another tavern to find a drink.
It's a toss-up whether the Landmark Tavern or Keens Steakhouse is closer to the Javits Center, but both are within comfortable walking distance.
Or he goes to the tavern where the Reg-Gok scum gather to drink themselves unconcious and tells a little something to a guildsman. In Darkness » Blog Archive » From the Archives: No Clue
Singleton recalled a slaver, the crew of which had been brawling at the Ship tavern a few nights before. Richard Carvel
The only sign of civilisation was an ancient taverna wedged on the rocks, and so we moored the boat and headed in for lunch.
She clasped the sword tightly and started to walk back to the tavern.
The innocent bystanders ran out the door of the tavern, including the bar tender.
A nectarous glass of iced coffee on the terrace of the Taverna Dionysus, and I took the road to Chora Sfakion.
A few of us went to the local tavern afterward to swap Al stories and remember a dedicated superintendent.
The tavern was lively, bustling with movement and much drinking.
He'd go to taverns and drink for a week straight.
I gave silver to the Tavern but the E-Z Terrain cliffs are so much neater than both these 2d tiles! 2009 ENnies Winners – Questionable At Best « Geek Related
As they quickly let you know, they eat bread, not chapattis; drink in tavernas, not tea shops; many of them were Roman Catholic, not Hindu; and their musicians played guitars and sang fados.
And if a high-balling shorthair found himself commiserating with a laid-off human middle manager at a tavern, we had no reason to bat an eye at his world's inner logic. In Memoriam: New Yorker cartoonist LEO CULLUM's warm and witty legacy
Colum insisted on paying the taverner 's fee, drained the dregs from his cup and gestured at Kathryn to remain seated. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
Six restaurants should keep even the pickiest eater happy and there's the option to dine in local tavernas too. Times, Sunday Times
Consistent with Ficino's recommendations, a drawing by Carpaccio suggests that many (if not all) of the instruments represented in the studioli were likely performed therein, including those instruments bearing connotations of the "music of the spheres," such as the clavichord, organ, and lute. 246 Other instruments, like the cittern found at Gubbio, were as readily available in a tavern as in a princely studiolo. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
After they woke and dressed they went back to the tavern section of the inn to get some breakfast.
You know the kind of street Main Street always used to be in our section -- half plank-road and turnpike, and the rest mud-hole, and a lot of stores and doggeries strung along with false fronts a story higher than the back, and here and there a decent building with the gable end to the public; and a court-house and jail and two taverns and three or four churches. A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete
And older persons, not yet altogether regenerate, are apt to have a weakness for a man who was willing to be knocked up at three in the morning by some young roysterers, and turn out with them for a "frisk" about the streets and taverns and down the river in a boat. Dr. Johnson and His Circle
His murder in a tavern brawl at the age of 29 cut short a glittering literary career. Times, Sunday Times
The wild tantivy boy had vanished, and the sobriquet of "Tavern Knight" was fast becoming The Tavern Knight
At remote Kechria, in what the Skiathian writer Papadiamantis called a "beautiful, melancholic valley", a Greek flag flies above the craggy beach as people wade into the sea, or stop in the shade of the beach taverna for a cold Mythos beer. Insiders' guide to Greece
In the background, behind the murmuring and brash conversations that were held in the room, the faint lyrics of a rock song he had heard before were drowned out by the scoffs, taunts and laughing of the foul company the tavern housed.
Shops and tavernas line the harbourside, which is filled with big yachts, little yachts, fishing boats and nut-brown children diving into the clear waters. Mirror.co.uk - Home
The Taverne munching den has moved from Second Road into Soi 7, just opposite the Pig N Whistle noshery.
The reader, if he has ever plied the fascinating trade of the noctambulist, will not be unaware that, in the neighbourhood of the great railway centres, certain early taverns inaugurate the business of the day. The Dynamiter
Following the convention's closing ceremonies, which amounted to Mr. Wurzelbacher and Mr. Izjit sharing a box of Moon Pies and a liter of Dr. Pepper while listening to cassette tapes of Lee Greenwood and Anita Bryant, the pair put the "Gone Fishin '" sign on the door and adjourned to a local tavern where they "chugged" shots of Rebel Yell and bottles of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer until insensate. LT Saloon
I don't know what it is about bars and bar food - these little taverns know how to take care of you on a Friday night.
Today I had dinner with Alec on the pavement outside Thai Metro and some good cider in the Fitzroy Tavern and missed him dreadfully the minute we said good night.
The taverna was a low, squat structure of whitewashed plaster with a swinging wooden door through which lemon light poured beckoningly and with a creaking sign over its frontage, depicting a giant crab so elaborately carapaced it seemed pre - historic. Beneath an opal moon

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