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I strolled about the pleasant streets for a while, seeing the Hofgarten and the fine Residenz Palace where King Ludwig lived, and drank the excellent German beer in one of their open-air beer-gardens while I watched the folk and tried out my ear on their conversation.
Royal Flash Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1970
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Here ends Professor Flashman's historical lecture, much of it cribbed from a history book, but some of it at least learned that first day in the Munich beer-gardens.
Royal Flash Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1970
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Also, one came across tables and benches in shady nooks, and arbours of the kind found in German beer-gardens.
Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols
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"For your mother, yes, and beer-gardens for Eric, and amphitheatres and battle fields for Mr. Mann."
Mae Madden Mary Murdoch Mason
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He did not hear the words at first, but he had a good ear, -- it was the singing that had brought him, as a boy, into the beer-gardens, -- and, stepping to the window, he listened, all unseen by those without.
Stories Worth Rereading Various
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It was the costume of a stay-at-home, and I learned afterward that he was a local professor of geography and political science -- the first by day, the last at night only in beer-gardens and places of resort.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various
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At Hammersmith you will see spacious old mansions used as warehouses; others as boarding-houses; still others converted into dance-halls with beer-gardens in the rear, where once bloomed and blossomed milady's flowerbeds.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916
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The Dutch and Germans have their beer-gardens, where they imbibe huge quantities of malt and honeydew tobacco; and the Irish their shebeen-shops, where Monongahela is quaffed in lieu of the "rale crather."
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The directory showed but fifty-six houses, several of which, I noticed, were still beer-gardens.
The Man with the Clubfoot Valentine Williams 1914
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In den Zelten, I discovered, on referring to the directory again, derived its name "In the Tents," from the fact that in earlier days a number of open-air beer-gardens and booths had occupied the site which faces the northern side of the Tiergarten.
The Man with the Clubfoot Valentine Williams 1914
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