The alehouse is the terrible bane of the labourer. From Wordnik.com. [The Toilers of the Field] Reference
For these commentators, the alehouse was a threat to public order, a hotbed of promiscuity, and a corrupter of conventional family life. From Wordnik.com. [Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner] Reference
An "alehouse" is, however, alluded to in a ballad on the burning of the old Globe in 1613. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II] Reference
Their place is an election ground, or an alehouse. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference
Never let me see the sign of such a man over an alehouse!. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
The clerk, at the alehouse, still claims the great chair. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
“Yes, last night, in the alehouse,” Dan said defiantly. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
I followed them into an alehouse and listened to their talk. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
Nothing can be better imagined than the group in the alehouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
How the village fools will talk it over in their alehouse, eh?. From Wordnik.com. [The Imaginary Marriage] Reference
As he was going home, he happened to step into an alehouse in Fore. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
After this, he and his wife (Duce's sister) set up a little alehouse by. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
'It was his choice to visit the alehouse and drink himself into a stupor.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
I used to be out at nights and play at the alehouse, I have now left it off. From Wordnik.com. [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference
A gentleman who by accident had brought one of these papers, came into the alehouse at. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
He got up late, sat in the sun most of the day, and spent his evenings in the alehouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
They were numerous, improvident, ragged in dress, and fond of an alehouse and of gossip. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
The men who had not been at the alehouse were looking resentful, but Dan was unrepentant. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
He joined with them, and in their company broke open with much difficulty an alehouse in Fore. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
Hewson withdrew to a neighboring alehouse, boasting of the character the admiral had given him. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean From Authentic Accounts Of Modern Voyagers And Travellers; Designed For The Entertainment And Instruction Of Young People] Reference
A remarkably hot summer is intimated by the luxuriant state of a vine, creeping over an alehouse window. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
While he kept the alehouse, there were two odd accidents befell him, which brought him for the first time to Newgate. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
He did not stay out his time with him, but being one evening with some drunken companions at an alehouse near the Iron. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
Do you make an alehouse of my lady's house, that you squeak out your cozier's catches without any mitigation or remorse of voice?. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850] Reference
Ferdinand made his way towards a small inn or rather village alehouse that stood on a gentle eminence skirted by a luxuriant wood. From Wordnik.com. [Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs] Reference
On these terms the friends parted; Robin Oig drew out, in silence, a piece of money, threw it on the table, and then left the alehouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827] Reference
As soon as he thought they were out of sight, he slipped away with all the precaution he was able, and got into a little blind alehouse in. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
His mother having been left in a needy condition, with several small children, she set up a little alehouse in order to get bread for them. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
He was not in the garden behind the alehouse, where men commonly fell asleep, and were saved from freezing by the heat of the fetid dunghill. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
A person, whose name escapes me, had undertaken to paint a sign for an alehouse: it was to be a lion, but the unfortunate artist produced a dog. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference
It relieves his home of its dullness and sameness, which, in nine cases out of ten, is what drives him out to the alehouse, to his own ruin and his family's. From Wordnik.com. [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference
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