The poolroom was a sideline to Mike’s bookmaking operation. From Wordnik.com. [Underworld] Reference
And a poolroom banjo playin' to the close of every day. From Wordnik.com. [The Indian Music Show] Reference
He hires a one-arm man out of a poolroom for no reason. From Wordnik.com. [Half of Paradise] Reference
Perry had seen the other two men before in the poolroom. From Wordnik.com. [To The Bright and Shining Sun] Reference
Men used to go to the poolroom and stand around the poolroom. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with John Harris, September 5, 2002. Interview R-0185. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
"What do you know about that there poolroom, Mr. Lolly?" demanded. From Wordnik.com. [Green Valley] Reference
He dressed as a townsman; he frequented the poolroom and Gatty's doggery. From Wordnik.com. [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference
When Cardinal was a teenager, the poolroom had been like a secret society. From Wordnik.com. [The Delicate Storm]
His next stop was a neighborhood bar and poolroom frequented by Hispanics. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
When he got back with the dog, two men were coming down the poolroom steps. From Wordnik.com. [Underworld] Reference
I don't mean to brag, but I know the location of every poolroom in the city!. From Wordnik.com. [The Statesmen Snowbound] Reference
The building was once a Chinese laundry, and at another time it was a poolroom. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago's Blackstone Rangers (I)] Reference
I took down one of the cues from the wall rack by the entrance to the poolroom. From Wordnik.com. [Heaven’s Prisoners] Reference
Somebody told me that he was in the poolroom on Seventh Avenue and 144th Street. From Wordnik.com. [Manchild in the Promised Land] Reference
He went into the first poolroom he passed and drank two draughts in five minutes. From Wordnik.com. [To The Bright and Shining Sun] Reference
He pushed the mug up on the dashboard and waved at the dark opening of the poolroom. From Wordnik.com. [The Convict and Other Stories] Reference
One of the poolroom hustlers dragged himself backwards and tried to get to his feet. From Wordnik.com. [To The Bright and Shining Sun] Reference
Main Street in New Iberia was quiet and empty when I parked in front of the poolroom. From Wordnik.com. [Heaven’s Prisoners] Reference
Timothy was the man who up till the day before yesterday had owned and run the poolroom. From Wordnik.com. [Green Valley] Reference
Green flecks of sawdust from the poolroom floor were stuck to the butch wax in his hair. From Wordnik.com. [Heaven’s Prisoners] Reference
Hack looked through the front glass into the dark interior of the poolroom straight ahead. From Wordnik.com. [The Convict and Other Stories] Reference
One afternoon, something told me to go inside a poolroom whose window I was looking through. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Malcolm X]
A moment later, they exited the poolroom door just ahead of Dutch, who turned and locked up. From Wordnik.com. [Hearts] Reference
Kimo trundled his unused musket back to the poolroom and listened to the gibes of his friends. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
Shorty's slave in the poolroom, he said, was just to keep ends together while he learned his horn. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Malcolm X]
See I've had two or three grocery stores, poolroom, dry cleaning, soda fountains, made false teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Lemuel Delany, July 15, 2005. Interview R-0346. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
She said she had no milk for the baby and no fire, that he was spending everything he earned in my poolroom. From Wordnik.com. [Green Valley] Reference
What about Rosie and good looking Bella and her brother she was trying to rescue from the grip of the poolroom?. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
And he told his poolroom friend a tale of India and of two plain white stones that lay somewhere within the heart of it. From Wordnik.com. [Green Valley] Reference
He could see the swing-doors of the bar, and hear the click of balls from the poolroom advertising the second of the town's distractions. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
The boys in the Elite poolroom will tell you all about it. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago] Reference
The boys in the Elite poolroom stand grinning in the doorway. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago] Reference
Billiards, a Minnesota Fats-era poolroom on Milwaukee near Wilson. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
Waterdog plugged away at the tournaments that had replaced poolroom gambling. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
He kept on walking till he found himself passing the entrance of a low poolroom. From Wordnik.com. [Luke Walton] Reference
Eventually, Waterdog rises and limps across Milwaukee Avenue, toward the poolroom. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
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