Ye're a-keepin' a roadhouse, mind-one of them huckster taverns where ha'f yer folks come in 'arly 'bout sundown and sit up ha'f ther night, and t'other ha'f drive inter yer yard 'bout midnight an' lie round till daybreak.
"The Other Fellow"
F. Hopkinson Smith
"If the wages of sin is death," she said to a roadhouse party of roysterers one dawn, "then I've quite a bit of back pay coming to me."
"The Vertical City"
Fannie Hurst
This to a man of McCuaig's experience in every bar and camp and roadhouse from Edmonton to the Arctic circle, was not to be endured.
"The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land"
Ralph Connor