tavernward

And it served as a brake, more than once, to his tavernward impulses.

His Dog Albert Payson Terhune 1907

Labourers working in yard and field began to turn their thoughts homeward or tavernward as the case might be.

When William Came 1870-1916 Saki 1893

We walked over some seven miles, to the nearer of the two neighbouring seats of that lesson; and all through such a mist of local colour that we felt ourselves a pair of Smollett's pedestrian heroes faring tavernward for a night of adventures.

A Passionate Pilgrim Henry James 1879

We walked over to Worcester, through such a mist of local color, that I felt like one of Smollett's pedestrian heroes, faring tavernward for a night of adventures.

A passionate pilgrim 1875

Almost everybody crowded forward to overwhelm the twins and their counsel with congratulations; but presently the two old aunties dug the duplicates out and bore them away in triumph through the hurrahing crowd, while lots of new friends carried Pudd'nhead Wilson off tavernward to feast him and "wet down" his great and victorious entry into the legal arena.

Those Extraordinary Twins Mark Twain 1872