tap-room

There were other doors, some of them open on to sties like the one I'd left, and various creatures on the landings, but I didn't pause until I bore up unsteadily by a big wooden counter on the ground floor, and I think there was a tap-room, too, but what mattered was that there was a street door ahead of me, and open air.

THE NUMBERS 2010

Microbreweries sell to the public by one or more of the following methods: the traditional three-tier system (brewer to wholesaler to retailer to consumer); the two-tier system (brewer acting as wholesaler to retailer to consumer); and, directly to the consumer through carryouts and/or on-site tap-room or restaurant sales.

A Pet Peeve 2009

Great Regulars: Here are three ventriloquized verses, tap-room utterances which amuse in simple ways malapropisms, "phonetic" rendering of speech but have a curious, collective emotional impact, too.

Archive 2009-03-01 Rus Bowden 2009

Marius, more intent on the outside than on the interior, had not, up to that time, taken a good look at the pinioned spy in the dark background of the tap-room.

Les Miserables 2008

Marius had no longer any weapons; he had flung away his discharged pistols after firing them; but he had caught sight of the barrel of powder in the tap-room, near the door.

Les Miserables 2008

Fresh customers entered the tap-room or kitchen, and others left it.

Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

As if Fate had set herself to confound the plans of the Jacobite conspirators, the number of travellers was unusually great, their appearance respectable, and they filled the public tap-room of the inn, where the political guests had already occupied most of the private apartments.

Redgauntlet 2008

In the tap-room there remained only Mabeuf under his black cloth and

Les Miserables 2008

When each had gone to take up his position for the combat, there remained in the tap-room where

Les Miserables 2008

He issued his final orders in the tap-room in a curt, but profoundly tranquil tone; Feuilly listened and replied in the name of all.

Les Miserables 2008