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taverner
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Taverner is an opera with music and libretto by Peter Maxwell Davies . It is based on the life of the 16th-century English composer John Taverner , but in what Davies himself acknowledged was a non-realistic treatment. The gestation for the opera dated ...
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n. (context archaic English) Someone who owns a tavern.
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Taverner \Tav"ern*er\, n. [F. tavernier, L. tabernarius.] One who keeps a tavern. --Chaucer. Camden.
Usage examples of taverner.
Taylor, bishop of Down, Connor, and Dromore, after strictly examining Taverner anent the whole matter, expressed his belief in the realness of the apparition.
He was astonished to see me, and I was more astonished still to find that he had turned taverner, for he gave an excellent dinner every day to all who cared to pay a rouble, exclusive of wine.
They next come to the Street of Lucre, full of Spaniards, Dutchmen and Jews, and here too, are conquerors and their soldiers, justices and their bribers, doctors, misers, merchants and userers, shopmen, clippers, taverners, drovers, and the like.
Half-turning, Pearce saw Charlie Taverner go down to a cosh, now lifted for a follow-up blow.
Taverner came in bearing coffee and a pair of fine decanters, one containing cognac, the other extremely rare unblended Scotch whisky.
She looked up, expecting to find the Harriers surrounding her with their silver and iron bonds, but it was only the taverner.
One is that Milos Taverner told the Amnion Nick Succorso has an effective antimutagen.
At ten o’clock Miss Taverner, dressed in her habit, and with a handful of spare whip-points thrust through one of her buttonholes, walked into her bedroom where she was fluttering about in the midst of bandboxes and valises, and said coolly: “Well, ma’am, I shall see you presently, I trust.
And up they stirte al dronken in this rage, And forth they goon towardes that village, Of which the taverner hadde spoke biforn.
Some priests supplemented their too meager pay by occupation as taverners or horse-dealers or other work disallowed for the clergy as inhonesta.
More likely it’s some of those runaway bondsmen the taverner mentioned.
Scattergood was in despair, and when Miss Taverner cast an indifferent glance at two hats displayed by a milliner (the one an enchanting Lavinia chip tied down with sarcenet ribbons, and the other a celestial-blue bonnet with a jockey-front edged with honeycomb trimming) and said that she liked neither, her chaperon, seriously alarmed, spoke of sending for Dr.
Was it possible, she wondered, that the origins of creatures like Vestabule and Taverner could affect Amnion deci sion-making processes.
Between you and us, Milos Taverner, con formity of purpose will be achieved through the mutual satisfaction of requirements.
They are booking Jason Taverner back at the Police Academy building and he is telling them his story.