26 Metaphors for inn

Still its inns were of respectable size, well piazzaed, to use a word of our own invention, and quite enough frequented.

The inn at Williamsburg is a miserable building, but it is kept by as kind-hearted, jolly old John-Bull-looking landlord as ever was seen, and who rejoices in the name of Uncle Ben.

Inn.De la Munia, kept by Victor Chappelle, hunter; besides whom, Jacques Canton and François Lavignolle, chamois-hunters, are excellent guides.

" Stopping but a short time in Rotterdam, the party proceeded through the Hague and Haarlem to Amsterdam, and from the latter place they visited the village of Broek: "The inn at Broek was another example of the same neatness.

The coaches and curricles, wigs and hoops, bolstered saddles and carriers' waggons are gone with the beaux and fine ladies and gentlemen's gentlemen whose environment they were; and the Castle Inn is no longer an inn.

The ****** Inn was the Salutation and Cat, in Newgate Street, since rebuilt, where Coleridge used to stay on his London visits when he was at Cambridge, and where the landlord is said to have asked him to continue as a free guestif only he would talk and talk.

They were to pass the night at Nuremburg; and, as soon as they arrived, Karl was sent out to procure the charcoal; but, after remaining away a long time, he came back saying the shops were all shut, and he could not get any; and as the inn at Nuremburg was not a fit place for any other kind of attack, Adelaide was respited for another four-and-twenty hours.

The inn is a plain structure of the usual stone-work of the hillside towns, and the stable, extending backward from the house proper, is largely an excavation in the rock.

An old house in South Street called "Dungeness" was contemporary with the Priory, and near by is a fine old Tudor house, once the Castle Inn, but now used as a club.

Inn-yards, houses without roofs, and extemporaneous enclosures at country fairs were the ready theatres of strolling players.

Stow, however, tells us: "Within this inn was also the lodging of the Abbot of Hide (by the city of Winchester), a fair house for him and his train when he came from that city to Parliament.

To be sure, she only asked me to lodge him, but as the inn is more than half a mile from here, he may want to be boarded.

The inn could not have been a very profitable speculation, in itself; but there was one room in it fitted out with a display of Indian manufactures,some of the articles reposing in glass cases to protect them from hands and dust, others arranged with negligent regularity upon the walls.

The inn itself was certainly not a paradise; but there were some lovely fields behind it, and in front, across the road, there was an old table and an older seat among the trees, down by the swift-flowing river.

I am inclined to think that Mrs. Carter's inn was the present 'Blacksmith's Arms,' but there is distinct evidence for stating that cock-fighting used to take place secretly in the crypt.

The inn was once the manse, and Meg Dods reigned there despotically, but her wines were good and her cuisine excellent.

Men flock to a barrel of good ale no matter whether the inn be low class or high class.

Travellers had to provide a large part of their own meals, for, as already stated, these village inns were not hotels in the real sense of the word.

No, good old inn; not such shall be thy fate, as long as trout are trout, and men have wit to catch them.

One need hardly say that the English wayside inn is as much a feature of the English countryside as the English hawthorn.

" The Inn had been a success from the very first day when a car stopped and delivered a load of people who ate their simple but well-cooked luncheon hungrily and liked it so well that they ordered dinner for the following Sunday and promised to send other parties.

But for her the inn would have been a wretched little placeas, indeed, it was before her time.

The little inn of the village was the most comfortable auberge I was ever in, and its landlord the kindest and most hospitable of hosts.

The inns were man-traps; solitary travellers who ventured inside of them were killed and devoured.

Breezeland Inn, the hotel at Agua Caliente, is a year-round resort for asthmatics and other health seekers, with a sanatorium annex which utilizes the waters of the warm springs for therapeutic purposes.

26 Metaphors for  inn