"Hostelry" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hours past high noon when we left our hostelry," the young man said, musingly. "We shall scarce be back by supper-time. Perchance mine host will roundly ...
— A Tangled Tale • Lewis Carroll
... There was no telling how long this reunion would have lasted, but happily for my sake, Lovell—who had been asleep all the morning—started out to round us up for dinner with him at the Wright House, which was at that day a famous hostelry, patronized almost exclusively by the Texas ...
— The Log of a Cowboy - A Narrative of the Old Trail Days • Andy Adams
... gorget.—Wenches, wipe the children's noses and snuff the candles.—Christ and Mahom! What am I eating here, Jupiter? Ohe! innkeeper! the hair which is not on the heads of your hussies one finds in your omelettes. Old woman! I like bald omelettes. May the devil confound you!—A fine hostelry of Beelzebub, where the hussies comb their ...
— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo
... same negative voice, and then showed her friend over the house, which Mrs. Kemp pronounced "sweet" and "cunning." As Milly's manner remained listless, Eleanor Kemp suggested their lunching at the hotel, and they walked over to the large hostelry on the Avenue, where the Kemps ...
— One Woman's Life • Robert Herrick
... had come to see the coronation for which his daughter had so zealously laboured. He lodged at the Sign of L'Ane Raye in the Rue du Parvis in a hostelry kept by Alix, widow of Raulin Morieau. As well as his daughter, he saw once more his son Pierre.[1521] The cousin, whom Jeanne called uncle and who had accompanied her to Vaucouleurs to Sire Robert, had likewise come hither to the coronation. ...
— The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) • Anatole France
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