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  • To cope with winds and waves, railroad trains, and bar-rooms, one must use judgment.

    Chapter 15 2010

  • To Frederick, at such times, it seemed that his butler's pantry and dining room had been turned into bar-rooms.

    BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN 2010

  • When stoves were first introduced, a feeling of unutterable repugnance was felt by all classes toward adopting them and they were used chiefly in school houses, courtrooms, bar-rooms, shops, and other public and rough places.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Linda 2008

  • When stoves were first introduced, a feeling of unutterable repugnance was felt by all classes toward adopting them and they were used chiefly in school houses, courtrooms, bar-rooms, shops, and other public and rough places.

    More Work for Mother 4 -- Enter the Stove Linda 2008

  • Truckee, which was at the height of its evening revelries — fires blazing out of doors, bar-rooms and saloons crammed, lights glaring, gaming tables thronged, fiddle and banjo in frightful discord, and the air ringing with ribaldry and profanity.

    A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

  • Nearly all the shooting affrays arise from the most trivial causes in saloons and bar-rooms.

    A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

  • Again I stood in the bar-rooms thereof, taking my evening cobbler, julep, sling, or cocktail.

    The Holly-Tree 2007

  • The roads resound with atrocious profanity, and the rowdyism of the saloons and bar-rooms is repressed, not extirpated.

    A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

  • Again I stood in the bar-rooms thereof, taking my evening cobbler, julep, sling, or cocktail.

    The Holly-Tree 2007

  • As the men have no bar-rooms to sit in, I observed that

    A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

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