"Do not make any without first consulting me, and, above all, avoid coffee-houses and Ordinaries, but if you should happen to frequent such places, listen and never speak.
"The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons"
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
The bishops of the Roman Catholic Church always contended that the estates should have been vested in them "as the Ordinaries of the various dioceses in which this property was situated."
"Canada under British Rule 1760-1900"
John G. Bourinot
In the afternoon the gallant might attend what Dekker calls a "Tobacco-ordinary," by which may possibly have been meant a smoking-club, or, more probably, the gathering after dinner at one of the many Ordinaries in the neighbourhood of St. Paul's Cathedral of "tobacconists," as smokers were then called, to discuss the merits of their respective pipes, and of the various kinds of tobacco-"whether your Cane or your Pudding be sweetest."
"The Social History of Smoking"
G. L. Apperson