innkeeper

• Three men were washing the huge coach that ran to Rovigo one day and back the next, and several smaller conveyances stood beyond it in a row, still covered with dust from yesterday, for the weather had been dry As in many inns of that time, the innkeeper was also the postmaster. —  Stradella
• I have heard of such a circumstance taking place in France, but then the innkeeper was a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour; but this case is even more remarkable. —  Olla Podrida
• At the little village of Landro (I feel a whimsical satisfaction in the likeness of the name to mine), the innkeeper was the friend of this truly great man--the greatest man that Europe has produced in our days, excepting his true compeer, Kosciusko. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III
• "[10] Jurists in this country and in England had also held that inasmuch as the innkeeper is engaged in a quasi public employment, the law gives him special privileges and he is charged with certain duties and responsibilities to the public. —  The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921
• Not that the innkeeper was prompt to take offence. —  Art in England Notes and Studies

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