Quotes About Public house

Hard by the church stood the public house; so often the two are closely conjoined, honorably sharing both joys and sorrows.

It was becoming somewhat more difficult, too, to open a "public house" or tavern for the sale of liquor. Municipal authorities now requested applicants for a license to present a certificate attesting they were "of good life & Conversation and fitt to keep such a house.

After that it would be a matter of other sources for general information, the nearest public house which the male servants might occasionally frequent, errand and delivery boys, street peddlers and crossing sweepers who might have an observant eye and, for a few pence, a ready tongue.

We had gone out there to pass the beautiful day of high summer like true Irishmen - locked in the dark Snug of a public house.

I travelled through the Northwest considerably during the winter of 1860-61. We had customers in all the little towns in southwest Wisconsin, southeast Minnesota and northeast Iowa. These generally knew I had been a captain in the regular army and had served through the Mexican war. Consequently wherever I stopped for the night, some of the people would come to the public house where I was, and sit till a late hour discussing the probabilities of the future.

Yet a gentleman may not keep a public house; may he?' said I. 'Not on any account,' returned Herbert; 'but a public-house may keep a gentleman...