It would have required whole hours, too, to reach a famous Cookshop in the Canopus, at whose table he liked to assemble beloved guests or revel with his friends.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
Owing to his impecunious circumstances, Barry had been accustomed to take his meals in Cookshops and coffee-houses of the cheaper kind; and Angelo notes as one of his eccentricities his always insisting upon paying for his meal at coffee or Cookshop rate wherever he might chance to feed.
"Curiosities of Impecuniosity"
H. G. Somerville
There he fetched the dinners from the Cookshop, did the inferior part of the work, and ran errands; taught himself to read by the aid of borrowed newspapers and a little dictionary, bought for him at a second-hand stall, for fourpence, by one of his fellow-workers, and by listening to an eloquent dissenting minister named Fawcett, acquired the proper pronunciation of words.
"Curiosities of Impecuniosity"
H. G. Somerville