They came to her in the cutting voice of Patience Bittner, a sophisticated hosteler she'd known on Isle Royale. From Wordnik.com. [Firestorm]
No hosteler or herbergeour might entertain a stranger longer than a day and a night, unless he undertook to answer for his guest's behaviour, and he was left in no uncertainty as to the course of conduct he was expected to pursue towards the always undesirable alien. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
Griffiths, the jolly hosteler, of whom I take the present opportunity of saying a few words, though I dare say he has been frequently described before, and by far better pens. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula] Reference
Close beside me stood my excellent friend Griffiths, the jolly hosteler, of whom I take the present opportunity of saying a few words, though I dare say he has been frequently described before, and by far better pens. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible in Spain] Reference
And the abbot of that place sent him to a cell of theirs to be hosteler, for to receive their guests and do them comfort, and soon after our Lord showed there a fair miracle for his servant S. Cuthbert, for angels came to him oft-times in likeness of other guests, whom he received and served diligently with meat and drink and other necessaries. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 3] Reference
In that country in the good towns is a good custom: for whoso will make a feast to any of his friends, there be certain inns in every good town, and he that will make the feast will say to the hosteler, array for me tomorrow a good dinner for so many folk, and telleth him the number, and deviseth him the viands; and he saith also, thus much I will dispend and no more. From Wordnik.com. [The Travels of Sir John Mandeville] Reference
A fellow hosteler A, (who's going around by scooter) to Dogo Onsen. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
The hosteler -- he didn't like that. From Wordnik.com. [Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ] Reference
And every hosteler and tappestere. From Wordnik.com. [English Satires] Reference
And out came Jockey, the hosteler. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England] Reference
A plant. hosteler, n., one who received guests. impetre, v., to beseech. japed, v., mocked. jowes, n. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 3] Reference
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