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Pub   /pəb/   Listen
Pub

noun
1.
Tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals.  Synonyms: gin mill, pothouse, public house, saloon, taphouse.



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"Pub" Quotes from Famous Books



... be had in an English translation, by F. Rothwell, under the title of The Great Initiates, A Sketch of the Secret History of Religions, by Edouard Schure (Pub., Rider & ...
— Christianity As A Mystical Fact - And The Mysteries of Antiquity • Rudolf Steiner

... the moor where the ways never weary us, Lunch at a primitive pub, Loaf till it's time to get back to more ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 1st, 1920 • Various

... appears to be an allusion to Macbeth in the comedy of the Puritan, 4to, 1607: 'we'll ha' the ghost i' th' white sheet sit at upper end o' th' table'; and Malone had referred to a less striking parallel in Caesar and Pompey, also pub. 1607: ...
— Shakespearean Tragedy - Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth • A. C. Bradley

... worse than a thief, worse than a murderer! ... Even a hangman...we have even such coming to the establishment—and even he would have treated me loftily, with loathing: I am nothing; I am a public wench! Do you understand, Sergei Ivanovich, what a horrible word this is? Pub-lic! ... This means nobody's: not papa's, not mamma's, not Russian, not Riyazan, but simply—public! And not once did it enter anybody's head to walk up to me and think: why, now, this is a human being too; she has a heart and a brain; ...
— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin

... that retirement which decli- "ning years induced me to seek, and which "repose, to a mind long employed in pub- "lic concerns, rendered necessary, my wish "es that bounteous Providence will conti- "nue to bless & preserve our country in "Peace & in the prosperity it has enjoyed, will "be warm & sincere; and my attachment "to the Society of which we are members ...
— Washington's Masonic Correspondence - As Found among the Washington Papers in the Library of Congress • Julius F. Sachse


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