What is "alehouse"

Usage examples of "alehouse".

Shannow sat unmoving in the saddle and rode on, reining in his mount at the steps to the alehouse.

The freshening breeze carried snatches of song from alehouses and cries of newspages as they trailed back to their offices for evening accounting, the savor of meat stewing with onion and garlic, and the wild clean scent of the grassland that stretched to the sea.

For Les Six not only inveigled the assembled gentlemen of Pryggia and Ozar into a turbulent drinking contest, but then, drunkenness rampant, proceeded to embellish their respective insults with such rococo flourishes, such baroque ornamentation, as to produce in but two minutes such a brawl as would shame the lowest alehouses of the scurviest ports in the world.

Every alehouse, wine shop, inn, and brothel did a roaring business, when half the freebooters of the Western Sea swaggered through the cobbled alleys of red Tortage with pouches bursting with gold, bellies bulging with beer and ale, and hearts inflamed by lust and truculence.

Gian liked such places, claiming that one could learn more about the countryside from an evening at a low alehouse than from a month spent with the lord of the land.

He could gather an appreciative audience at any alehouse or tavern, and talk his way around any woman he wanted.

As Gian had done, he listened to the gossip of inn and alehouse, alert for the names of families known for their largesse and their delight in feats of skill and conjuring.

The inn opposite was another rubbishy alehouse for selling bad beer to soldiers.

Gluck to mind the furnace, and go and drink out the money in the alehouse next door.

Nay, had she followed her lover at this very time, and had entered this very alehouse the moment he was departed from it, she would have found the landlord as well acquainted with her name and person as the wench at Upton had appeared to be.

Jones very dear, had not Partridge, who, as we have said, was a very cunning fellow, artfully thrown in half-a-crown to be spent at that very alehouse, while the boy was waiting for his companion.

O- well, we no sooner knew each other, than, after many hearty shakes by the hand, we agreed to go to an alehouse and take a pot, and by good luck the beer was some of the best I have met with since I have been in town.

I came into the room, at an alehouse in Aldersgate, in company with two of the fellows who were employed by Lord Fellamar to press Mr.

Abandoning all thought of armor and shields, Ignace now drew upon that deep reservoir of tactical subtlety which derives from a lifetime of experience in tavern set-tos and alehouse disputes, and essayed the time-honored tactic of fleeing like an antelope.

Sejourne spent much of the time working at a pastime popular in the inns and alehouses, a guessing game played with straws.