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Then when the word came back that he made his loafing headquarters in a place up an alley known as a stube or a rathskeller, or something like that, all the women of the literary clubs, who kept his picture on the high pedestal with the candles burning in front of it, decided that stube meant "shrine."
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• A brick vaulted basement, cunningly bought into use as an exercise room, and a brightly-lit wine cellar or ski-style "stube" for candlelit suppers or drinks.
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• A brick vaulted basement, cunningly bought into use as an exercise room, and a brightly-lit wine cellar or ski-style "stube" for candlelit suppers or drinks.
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So, we ate mussels and beer in Belgium bars; roast goose with red cabbage in a dark German stube.
The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008
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Here he was suffered to enter, rather than admitted, into the general or public stube, or room of entertainment, which, like the ark of the patriarch, received all ranks without distinction, whether clean or unclean.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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On receiving this decisive rebuff, Philipson gave up the contest, and retired from the sanctum sanctorum of his ungracious host, to await the arrival of supper, penned up like a bullock in a pound amongst the crowded inhabitants of the stube.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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His thoughts roamed far from the stube of the Golden Fleece, and upon matter very different from that which was discussed around him, when his attention was suddenly recilled by a loud and continued knocking on the door of the hostelry.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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So, we ate mussels and beer in Belgium bars; roast goose with red cabbage in a dark German stube.
The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008
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The men went as they were directed, and might be heard in the stube vying with each other in the positive denial which they gave to the ill-fated guest, who was pressing for admission.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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The stube, or stove, of a German inn, derived its name from the great hypocaust, which is always strongly heated to secure the warmth of the apartment in which it is placed.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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