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...n his books and lock the entrance door. Sometimes we would proceed to patronise an Old City coffeehouse. But usually I would return to my alcove and...
...tting with a laptop computer on the table as their ‘companion’. The American Coffeehouse has become merely another cultural scam selling an elite s...
...s come: that of Chateaus burnt; of Chateaus combus- tible. How altered all Coffeehouses, in Province or Capital! The Antre de Procope has now other qu... ...again, being a man of polished sarcasm; and moved to and fro persuasive in coffeehouse and soiree, and dived down assiduous-obscure in the great deep ...
...is natural eye was bedewed with tears. “But here we are at the ‘Gray’s-Inn CoffeeHouse.’ James, what is the joint?” That very respectful and efficient... ...e quiet little taps on the table—it is the middle table in the “Gray’s-Inn CoffeeHouse,” under the bust of the late Duke of W-ll-ngt-n. “I fired in th...
...l quotidian cries: the world wags on, as if this were a common day. In the coffeehouses that evening, says Prudhomme, Patriot shook hands with Patriot...
... situation. I am 16 Redgauntlet in the world as a stranger in the crowded coffeehouse, where he enters, calls for what refreshment he wants, pays his... ...ll drive the swine through our bonny hanks of yarn; get him over to John’s Coffeehouse, man—gie him his 164 Redgauntlet meridian—keep him there, drun... ...were fixed upon the court. They dived into the Cimmerian abysses of John’s Coffeehouse, [See Note 5.] formerly the favourite rendez- vous of the class...
...nglish, many? The Count Strongstroganoff I put in pain, And Lord Mount Coffeehouse, the Irish peer, Who kill’d himself for love (with wine) la...
...e hospitality of Versailles,’ lie dormant in spare-beds, spare-bar- racks, coffeehouses, empty churches. A troop of them, on their 172 The French Rev... ...ain, being a man of polished sar- casm; and moved to and fro persuasive in coffeehouse and soiree, and dived down assiduous-obscure in the great deep ... ...and brandy ‘as in open tavern, en pleine tabagie. ’ Betting goes on in all coffeehouses of the neighbourhood. But within doors, fatigue, impatience, u... ...eme need? King Louis’s friends are feeble and far. Not even a voice in the coffeehouses rises for him. At Meot the Restaurateur’s no Captain Dampmarti...
...t into ze room steps ze man in ze grey Uberrock, who had sat with us in ze coffeehouse. He were Spion! ‘Come wis me,’ says ze Spion, ‘Very goot!’ say ...
...d the clever gentlemen, who were called the wits, used to meet and talk at coffeehouses, and read newspapers, and discuss plays and poems; also, the f...
...he hospitality of Versailles, ’ lie dormant in spare-beds, spare-barracks, coffeehouses, empty churches. A troop of them, on their way to the Church o...
...er having a child by her him- self, she became a common whore; then kept a coffeehouse in Covent Garden; and a little after died of the French dis- te... ...er abhorrence than these men of business do. Whenever I durst venture to a coffeehouse, which was on Sundays only, a whisper ran round the room, which...
...rican slave who followed him ev erywhere. When the theologian entered the coffeehouse, the slave remained outside, near the door sitting on a stone i...
...say, “Sir, I am to be found at such a place.” By spending three-pence in a coffeehouse, he might be for some hours every day in very good company; he ...
...itting his brows. ‘That it happened this way—that your nephew met him at a coffeehouse, fell upon him with the most demneble feroc- ity, followed him ...