Exford is the headquarters of the stag-hunt: thither the hunters flock in August, and spend so much money during thir brief season that the innkeepers grow rich and fat, and for the rest of the year can afford to doze peacefully behind their bars.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
And the welcome we received from the hospitable innkeepers served to strengthen the remembrance.
"Two Years in Oregon"
Wallis Nash
With a satisfactory anathema upon all innkeepers, waiters, hostlers, and post-boys, with a codicil including coach-proprietors, I followed the smirking landlord into a well-lighted room, with a blazing fire, when having ordered supper, I soon regained my equanimity.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)