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Usage examples of barfly.

I kept at it until midnight, concentrating on the bars around 6th and Hill, talking up barflies, buying them drinks, racking up booze rebop and a couple of tips on abortion mills that almost sounded legit.

Behind the half-busy bar a man with high collar, string tie, and arm garters drew schooners of beer from a tap, and at tables of no significant location sat men and women Francis recognized: whores, bums, barflies.

Buzz of Barflies can be found around almost any collection of good books.

Anyone just back from a cruise with Jason, and bringing back the Fleece, will have the local barflies standing in line to buy him drinks and hear his stories.

We, and I consider myself a Barfly of long and serious standing, refer to ourselves as the Barflies.

I was a Barfly before it was accepted for publication and the rest of the gang got out there and promoted it without even being asked.

His mind shied away from a sudden vision of Inge, the German barfly who had put him down for the count in Frankfurt that night.

He claims she ran off with some barfly and was never heard from again.

I made a joke to her, that my Dad was an alcoholic barfly, and that growing up I ate garnishes as meals almost every night-but then the waitress got all weird, and Karla reminded me that people often move to Las Vegas to forget things, and she stopped coming to our table, and Dad, sitting two seats over, was embarrassed because he's not used to this kind of joke.

The people I talked to were mostly barflies, daytime juicers eager to suck up to authority or gab with someone other than the usual boon acquaintances they found in gin mills.

Kinsey was mopping up the last of the water as the early evening barflies began to drift in.

The wisdom of the ages shredded at a stroke into the pipe-cooked musings of a bunch of canal-dive barflies.

Stonebender's little boy Jacob now subsumes not only an alien, two time travelers, the greatert genius of his age, several dozen barflies, a talking dog, and a self-generated Turing-class artificial intelligence .