"Taproom" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... see what you has to complain of. You've got the best business in the house. Your taproom don't get empty, if it's summer or winter. If I was Siebenhaar upstairs, you'd have to whistle a different tune for me. You wouldn't be gettin' off with no three hundred crowns o' rent. There wouldn't be no use comin' around me with less'n a thousand. An' then you'd ...
— The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann - Volume II • Gerhart Hauptmann
... more whisky, and at the sounds of a step-dance on the brick floor of the adjoining taproom, took up his glass, and, followed by Nibletts, watched the proceedings from the doorway. Mr. William Green, who worshipped wealth and position, sidled up to him, and with much ...
— A Master Of Craft • W. W. Jacobs
... he explained. "The old fool's sitting in the taproom as drunk as an owl, and I was reckonin' that you an' me between us might get him home quiet before the house fills up an' mischief begins; for by the looks of it there'll be Newgate-let-loose ...
— Poison Island • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)
... Malcolm Angus was in an awful state of mind when, at length, he appeared in the breakfast-room. "Why the dash do you make a taproom of this?" he cries. The trembling Henchman, who has begun to smoke—as he has done a hundred times before in this bachelor's hall—flings his cigar ...
— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray
... word before you go, Sir Charles," he panted. "I've just 'eard in my taproom that the four men I spoke of left for Crawley ...
— Rodney Stone • Arthur Conan Doyle |
