bar-counter

And in what walk of life, or dance of life, does man ever get such stimulating applause as thunders about him, when, having danced his partner off her feet, and himself too, he finishes by leaping gloriously on the bar-counter, and calling for something to drink, with the chuckle of a million of counterfeit

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

Named after a traditional provencal bar-counter dice game, it was a drink-and-dance club where the decor was based on mirrors repeating every image to infinity, the style was excuse-me, and the table cloths were symbolically green-baize plastic.

Salvage for the Saint Charteris, Leslie, 1907- 1983

In the shattered estaminet we had just left, one of the men went behind the almost unrecognizable bar-counter, and operating an imaginary handle, asked a comrade, "And what's yours, mate?"

Bullets & Billets Bruce Bairnsfather

They counted the money on the bar-counter; the amount of the collection had been greatly exceeded and somebody suggested that it was a nice thing, upon my word, yes, a very nice thing, what they were doing: having a good time, while the Bambinis, perhaps, were going to bed without any supper!

The Bill-Toppers J. Andr�� Castaigne

Berry looked at the mahogany bar-counter, slopped with beer, at the whisky-bottles on the shelves.

England, My England 1907

Then he went down the step past the bar-counter, and through to the lighted doorway of the kitchen.

England, My England 1907

The room in which they sat was a long, low - ceiling apartment, extending from the street door to a sort of bar-counter at the rear, beyond which was a smaller room that was evidently given up to store and serving purposes.

The Orange-Yellow Diamond 1899

But Lauriston's attention was mainly directed to the two men who stood behind the bar-counter, superintending and directing their neat assistants.

The Orange-Yellow Diamond 1899

More than one horse and canoe and cow and ox, and acre of land, in the days when land was cheap, had come to him across the bar-counter.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

He caught up a tin quart-pot from the bar-counter and showed the soldered bottom of it.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897