"It'll be a cold day when I do," answered the saloon-keeper. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
He was a young man and a saloon-keeper at Augusta, Arkansas. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3] Reference
The saloon-keeper wouldn't do it; what did he care for them?. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Ranney] Reference
Orangeville, where two men were talking over the bar to the saloon-keeper. From Wordnik.com. [A California Girl] Reference
"I never bet in the teeth of a pat hand," he said slowly, looking at the saloon-keeper. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 2] Reference
'Whose establishment is that?' he said to the saloon-keeper, as the carriage rolled away. From Wordnik.com. [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference
"To be a saloon-keeper," he wrote, not entirely with tongue in cheek, "was to be illustrious.". From Wordnik.com. [The Old West Nods to the East] Reference
However, Petka knew Platon, the village saloon-keeper, as the most gifted man for that purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
Romans, as it is well known to-day to every saloon-keeper and every keeper of a disreputable house. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference
This would give the saloon-keeper plenty of time for the two ribs that Isaac Masters had crushed, to mend!. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896] Reference
Okay, so maybe your great-great grandfather was a booze-swilling saloon-keeper who ran cockfights on the side. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
The man whom the saloon-keeper had shot had but just been declared out of clanger and on the road to recovery. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896] Reference
The mob was organized at this meeting and was led to La Grande by H.C. Cotner, a rancher, and Joseph Truesdale, a saloon-keeper. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Mrs. Trumble, My Nominee for a St. Gabriel Possenti Award:] Reference
The saloon-keeper found that he was dealing with a man who was not to be frightened or deceived into paying over money unnecessarily. From Wordnik.com. [Five Thousand Dollars Reward] Reference
Old Ned, the saloon-keeper, watched them in amazement. From Wordnik.com. [The Fourth Watch] Reference
One evening Tom met the saloon-keeper when out walking. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Miner or Tom Nelson in California] Reference
To be a saloon-keeper and kill a man was to be illustrious. From Wordnik.com. [Roughing It] Reference
This saloon-keeper I had known by sight for a couple of years. From Wordnik.com. [John Barleycorn] Reference
Then Cornwood had sent a note to the saloon-keeper to this effect, and. From Wordnik.com. [Down South or, Yacht Adventure in Florida] Reference
The saloon-keeper served a purpose, and was amply paid for his service. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Unaga] Reference
He is a typical New York saloon-keeper -- nothing more, and nothing less. From Wordnik.com. [Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures.] Reference
A fact sufficiently unusual to stir the saloon-keeper to a high pitch of cordiality. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Unaga] Reference
Imagine Poe attracting customers for a New York saloon-keeper by reciting his poems!. From Wordnik.com. [Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties] Reference
As every saloon is a political club, every saloon-keeper is of necessity a politician. From Wordnik.com. [The Conflict] Reference
At night he used to empty all the liquor out of the bag and sell it to a saloon-keeper. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance] Reference
Steve, much flattered, nodded to the alert saloon-keeper, and said: "Give us another, Hank.". From Wordnik.com. [Prairie Folks] Reference
It invested the saloon-keeper, in Presley's imagination, with all the dignity of the tragedy. From Wordnik.com. [The Octopus : A story of California] Reference
"Well, Sandy, what do you want now?" demanded the saloon-keeper, when I came into his presence. From Wordnik.com. [Up the River or, Yachting on the Mississippi] Reference
I am not sure but that the saloon-keeper held a shade higher rank than any other member of society. From Wordnik.com. [Roughing It] Reference
"I can't read it without my glasses," said the saloon-keeper, holding the card off at arm's length. From Wordnik.com. [Down South or, Yacht Adventure in Florida] Reference
The saloon-keeper develops into the legislator, and wears the broadcloth and high hat of the politician. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
Oakland suddenly for the adventure-path the following spring, I well remember I owed that saloon-keeper one dollar and seventy cents. From Wordnik.com. [John Barleycorn] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [John Barleycorn] Reference
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