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tavernkeeper

n. One who keeps a tavern.

Usage examples of "tavernkeeper".

Wulfgar gave Arumn a little jerk, then set him down and took a step back, glaring at the tavernkeeper unblinkingly.

Wulfgar caught it in one hand, yanked it away from the tavernkeeper, then pushed Arumn back.

The tavernkeeper walked over to consider Wulfgar, then shook his head.

Most likely the tavernkeeper, calling for the Watch, for the alarm bell was quickly echoed by the Watch whistles.

He was beginning to wonder if he had cursed himself with an image he might never lose, when the tavernkeeper poked his bald head out of the back room.

The tavernkeeper was so quickly out of the door from the kitchen and into the room that Pirojil felt sure he must have been watching the whole scene through the beaded curtain.

The tavernkeeper lit a short stub of candle that stood on the window sill.

The tavernkeeper greeted Captain Morgan familiarly, as did several of the buccaneers drinking at the tables.

The tavernkeeper brought sea salt, black pepper, and some sort of red peppers to spice up the meal.

I noted that the tavernkeeper had not tallied up any damages against us.

When the tavernkeeper and his two sons tried to intervene, the soldiers murdered all three of them.

At first the tavernkeeper just gawped at me, then he got used to it and started greeting me like a member of the family.

And yet I had been months in the town and thought I knew all about confidence tricksters, how they came slinking out of side streets by night to meet us with outstretched hands like tavernkeepers, how they haunted the advertisement pillars we stood beside, sliding around them as if playing hide-and-seek and spying on us with at least one eye, how they suddenly appeared on the curb of the pavement at cross-streets when we were hesitating!

Prayed to the spirits of tavernkeepers past to save his chairs, his tankards, his hide.

Smiths at their forges, tavernkeepers with torches to light up their taprooms, cooks at hearths and braziers .