What is "public-house"

Usage examples of "public-house".

On that same evening Jean was to meet his accomplices at a ball at the Rainbow--a public-house bearing a very unenviable reputation--and give them their last instructions.

In Ilkeston the colliers were waiting in gangs for the public-houses to open.

Still, under the influence of his blessed vision, Hennessey would not go near the public-houses, but wandered about the outskirts of the town for hours, keeping apart from the townspeople, and fasting as penance.

Whether it be a public-house or no, I am sure if they be Christians that well there, they will not refuse a little house-room to persons in our miserable condition.

But Alfred Charlesworth did not forgive the butty these public-house sayings.

All the earnings of each stall were put down to the chief butty, as contractor, and he divided the wages again, either in the public-house or in his own home.

In every one of the seventy-two parishes of the city of Venice, there is a large public-house called 'magazzino'.

Our chief object was, to ascertain the houses of the other crimps, and, as the men knew most of them, having invariably resorted to them at the end of their voyages, we obtained the locality of five or six, all apparently public-houses, but having back premises for the concealment of seamen: all these were carefully noted down.

The car had to be left outside the public-house, but it was no great distance to the Cypresses, so that in a few minutes we were standing on the lawn before the summer-house.

Duncan had purchased her public-house, or whether the antique-dealer's wife had found other suspicious characters to follow, dismissed from my nostrils the stench of old Fryer's yard, and the musty odour of the Cypresses, gave no thought to the two ill-assorted pairs of lovers: Ed Wilson and his quiet pale wife, and Peter Ferrers with the doctor's talkative widow.

The aunt's husband, a bookbinder, had once been comfortably off, but had lost all his customers, and had taken to drink, and spent all he could lay hands on at the public-house.

All the scenes were painted from nature, including the public-house that the robber frequented in Claremarket, and the condemned cell from which he had made his escape in Newgate.

I will go on sitting and drinking, because this is a public-house and I paid my entrance money.

This was the story: The village public-house keeper had enticed the young fellow's wife.

But everywhere the public-house keeper managed to bribe the officials, and was acquitted.