He walked through street after street, almost sobbing with delight, through narrow alleys down which the sun never fell, into big squares hot as ovens and dazzling, up hill and down hill, past ragged slums, past the splendid palaces of the rich, past shops, past TAVERNS.
"Orientations"
William Somerset Maugham
No Aldermen should keep ale-houses or TAVERNS, nor absent themselves from the town's business, nor discover what is said in their councils, under heavy penalties.
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews
Broiled chicken, of course, I said to myself-always get delicious broiled chicken in the country-and a salad, and perhaps-you can't always tell, of course, what the cellars of these old New England TAVERNS may contain-yes, perhaps a pint of any really good Burgundy, Pommard, or Beaune.
"The Other Fellow"
F. Hopkinson Smith