bar-parlour

• “Machinery is killing memory; coloured lights thrown by theatrical lanterns are killing the colours of a human face and character; the man who in the bar-parlour could feel like somebody, is forced in the dark and crowded hall to feel like nobody; the actual human testimony of mankind is minus a man.”

  G.K.'s Weekly - The Awful Example

• “Even the dispassionate judges who sat by the hour in the bar-parlour of the”

  A Changed Man

• “And even as he did so the flap of the bar was shut down and the bolt clicked, and then with a tremendous thud the catch of the door snapped and the bar-parlour door burst open.”

  The Invisible Man

• “Five minutes afterwards when a second cabman pushed his head in cautiously, they were still waiting, and an anxious face peered out of the bar-parlour and supplied information.”

  The Invisible Man

• “The bar-parlour door slammed and they heard the key turn.”

  The Invisible Man

• “The barman stood in front of the bar-parlour door which was now locked on Mr. Marvel, stared at the smashed window, and came round to the two other men.”

  The Invisible Man

• “The book of Wodehouse's which I have recently been reading consists of a number of short stories, as related by Mr Mulliner in the bar-parlour of the Angler's Rest.”

  P.G. Wodehouse: Mr Mulliner speaking

• “That Purdy, of all people, should prove a dabster in the share-market! — exchange to such good purpose bar-parlour for “Corner.””

  The Way Home

• “Well, I suppose we had the honour of entertaining in this bar-parlour yesterday, about the biggest and loudest and most fat-headed fanatic in the modern world.”

  The Complete Father Brown

• “They seated themselves in a close and dim sort of bar-parlour, at a stained wooden table with one wooden leg.”

  The Man Who Was Thursday

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