Saloons

Usage examples of barrooms.

After haunting so many barrooms over the years, he had ceased to notice enough differences, one from another, to be able to attach names to them.

They appeared to be afraid that the recent total ban on smoking in restaurants might be extended tonight to barrooms and homes, and that each cigarette might be their last.

If it did, we'd have fewer psychiatrists and barrooms than you dogs have—and it's not that way, is it?

One ear up, one ear down, he was attentive to the story that he'd heard on countless nights like this, when he was the entire audience, and on nights when he accompanied Spencer into barrooms, where drinks were bought for strangers who would listen in an alcoholic haze.

More swiftly than when he had been confessing to strangers in barrooms and to the dog, he recounted his journey on that July night: out of the silent house, across the summer lawn with its faux frost of moonlight, to the corner of the barn and the visitation of the owl, to the van where the stench of urine rose from the open back door, and into the hall where they now stood together.

If he isn’t at the hotel, go to the barrooms on Decatur Street and ask for him.

After I heard about it, I sorter oozed around the barrooms pickin’ up gossip and I found out that somebody wants to buy in Tara cheap at the sheriffs sale, if you can’t pay the extra taxes.

The town was full of Yankee soldiers, on horses, afoot, in army wagons, loafing on the street, reeling out of barrooms.

Gantley is an extremely tense man who finds his relaxation only in barrooms.

He also left sample boxes of 100 with the other stores in town and the barrooms.

There were also ominous sounds of “Dixie” being sung in dark barrooms.

All in all, thought Chase, Cameron had been wise not to take a house in Washington, preferring the barrooms and the parlors and the barbershops of Willard’s, where he could prowl like some lord of the jungle.

Either way, it was basically a two-man version of Watch Me, the card-game which had been played in barrooms and bunkhouses and around campfires since the world was young.

Those killed in sudden heat were customarily found sprawled and bloody in bedrooms, barrooms, on kitchen floors, and in parking lots.