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tavern-keeper's

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  • And I understand why the cliffs look like battlements in the moonlight and why the tavern-keeper's nightmare-haunted nephew saw in his dream, the Black Stone like a spire on a cyclopean black castle.

    People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • I sought out the tavern-keeper's nephew and questioned him in regard to his dreams, but he was vague, though willing to oblige.

    People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • The tavern-keeper's wife arrived with a bowl of warm water, a cloth and some salve.

    The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004

  • And can't you see Geusistrate, the tavern-keeper's wife, with a lamp in her hand?

    The Ecclesiazusae 2000

  • He searched for a way to erase the doubt that still creased the tavern-keeper's face.

    Conan The Unconquered Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983

  • Conan caught the tavern-keeper's tunic sleeve as he passed again.

    Conan The Unconquered Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983

  • It was the tavern-keeper's major fault that he liked to let men know how much he knew of what they had been about.

    Conan The Unconquered Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983

  • Do you think, that, as a boy, you ever imposed upon me with your talk about that handsome Suke Boody, the tavern-keeper's daughter?

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Various

  • And can't you see Gusistraté, the tavern-keeper's wife, with a lamp in her hand, and the wives of Philodoretus and Chaeretades?

    The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

  • Dimock, the tavern-keeper's son, returned to Greenfield, after years of absence, a bold-faced, handsome man, well-dressed and "free-handed," as the Greenfield vernacular hath it.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various

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