In every tavern in Virginia, when men talked of the Free Companions, it was the name of Red Ringan that came first to their tongues.

If ye need aid you will go to Mercer's Tavern at James Town down on the water front, and you will ask news of Ninian Campbell.

The chief one never returned to claim her, but died in a fight off Cartagena, and wrote a fine ballad about his mistress which Ringan said was still sung in the taverns of the Main.

The well-drawn character of Betty Flauntit is her own, and the realistically vivacious bagnio episodes of Act iv replace a not very interesting or lively tavern with a considerable accession to wit and humour, although perhaps not to strict propriety.

During his visits to London it was the habit of the two schoolfellows to meet at a tavern near Smithfield, the "Salutation and Cat" to discuss the topics dear to both: and it was about this time that Lamb's sonnet to Mrs Siddons, his first appearance in print, was published in the "Morning Chronicle.

Some of the taverns on this road, which were particularly dirty, were plainly in a transition state from the camp to the house.

How we sat through the dark autumn nights, and how we skipped back and forth, from the tavern to the wine-shop?

"Would it fit your humor," asks Mr. Pepys, when we have been handed to our seats, "would it fit your humor, if we go around to the Rose Tavern for some burnt wine and a breast of mutton off the spit?

At night the family generally "put up" at hotels or cross-road taverns along the way.

I sought Mercer's tavern by the water-side, a melancholy place grown up with weeds, with a yard of dark trees at the back of it.

There was not a finer tavern than ours to the north of Boston, or better dressed men frequenting it.

Fernando had forgotten, if he ever knew, that he was registered at the tavern as Mr. Phil.

On the 7th he accordingly made no movement to attack Lee, and on the night of that day marched rapidly in the direction of Hanover Junction, following the road by Todd's Tavern toward Spottsylvania Court-House.

The two dramatists met at the Mermaid tavern under Ben Jonson's leadership and soon became inseparable friends, living and working together.

Other countries, even older than England, have had their taverns from time immemorial; but they are all kept in the background of human life.

One pair of horses usually dragged the coach eighteen miles, when a fresh pair would be attached, and if all went well, you would be put down about ten at night at some wayside inn or tavern after a journey of forty miles.

He will hold an argument in a tavern over sack till the dial and himself be both at a stand; he never observes any time but sermon-time, and there he sleeps by the hour-glass.