Pausing for a moment he scribbled on the back of an old tavern bill a note addressed to his wife, Sarah: " I have no time to say more but to beg you will give my duty to the Queen, and let her know her army has had a glorious victory.

In the Three Cripples pub, Nancy sings an old tavern song (" Oom Pah Pah ").

He operated a tavern on the old Chicago Road between Chicago and Detroit ( now US 12 ), known as the " White Oak Tavern " because of an immense oak tree near the house.

At a small distance from the town, an old tavern called " In Den Anker " can be found, which has the oldest license in the Netherlands.

The town was originally centered around a tavern operated by Isaac English, located on an old roadway that ran from Cranberry, North Carolina down to Marion, NC.

Parts of the tavern, which is located along an old stagecoach route, date to 1832.

Both buildings were used as hotels, replacing the old roadhouse which was located near where Charles Pyles now lives, and the tavern at Short Gap, to some extent.

In his essay " In the End, a Beginning: The Montreal Story Tellers ", critic Keith Garebian writes: " Raymond Fraser's booming Maritime vigour and directness seem, with subtle undertows of psychological configuration, like a roaring tide battering the literary shore ... Fraser's narrative ancestors are not only the old salts of every Maritime tavern or watering-hole, but also the more commemorated figures of Mark Twain and Hugh Garner.

Lampie, the drunken old lighthouse keeper, stumbles out of a tavern and encounters Pete.

Csárdás ( or ; ), which is often misspelled as Czárdás, is a traditional Hungarian folk dance, the name derived from csárda ( old Hungarian term for tavern ).

His constant attempts to sneak out with his old gang of boisterous, rough-edged pals, eat corned beef and cabbage ( known regionally as " Jiggs dinner ") and hang out at the local tavern were often thwarted by his formidable, social-climbing ( and rolling-pin wielding ) harridan of a wife, Maggie, and their lovely young daughter, Nora.

The old theatre was demolished, and on 26 December 1858, The New Adelphi was opened and was considered an improvement on the cramped circumstances of the original, which had been described as a " hasty conversion from a tavern hall, permanently kept in its provisional state ".

Prohibition eliminated The Bowery's numerous saloons: One Mile House, the " stately old tavern ... replaced by a cheap saloon " at the southeast corner of Rivington Street, named for the battered milestone across the way, where the politicians of the East Side had made informal arrangements for the city's governance,

Its incipit is a poem encompassing about a third of the whole, containing further reminiscences of London tavern and club life in the form of dialogue between the poet and an old man.

In 1840, when William was 14 years old, the family moved to Jerusalem, where Fielding Mahone purchased and operated a tavern.

After his release he was soon back to his old ways, and after he had killed a man after a tavern brawl, he was fined and obliged to read a mass for his victim every year.

Following the rebellion, the site of the tavern was used to build a hotel, with the structure of the old Davisville Hotel.

In 1930 the old tavern was demolished and the current building erected.

Newer houses have been built to the west of the village on the old grounds of the tavern.

Soon all traces of the house disappeared, but fond memories of the old tavern have been preserved in two poems written after its dissolution.

Eliza Tierney, a 14-year old servant at Starr's tavern, was called as a witness and testified that she had known Whelan for six weeks as a boarder who lived in a room on the first floor of the tavern, and that he had owned a pistol for as long as she had known him.

* Beneath the Walker Hall there are the remains of old stables and a tavern.

At least one more family-friendly tavern and eatery is scheduled to open around Labor Day 2011, The Boundary Stone on Rhode Island Avenue in the old Sylvan Theater, ( note that the old Sylvan Theater marquee sign was recently relit in full color neon after several decades being dark ).

Before long the atmosphere reverted to its old normalcy, and insects hummed and birds occasionally called.

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

In `` The King's Ride '', Charles breaks out of a long period of petulance and inertia, regains his old self, escapes from Turkey, and finally reaches his own land after an absence of eighteen years.

Sherman could never be accused of sticking too long with the old.

`` Baby, I saw a lot of old friends I hadn't seen in a long time '', he told me, his eyes bright.

Southfield schools furnish an old 45-passenger bus ( the heater in which needs repair since some of the children ride a long distance and need the heat ).

The wine waiter will see to it that the bottles are taken from the bin and opened at least in time to warm and aerate, preferably allowed to stand on end for as long as possible and, perhaps in the case of very old wines, be decanted.

Radio broadcasts, however -- now that even plain people could afford `` loud speakers '' on their sets -- held old fans to the major-league races and attracted new ones, chiefly women, who through what the philosopher called the ineluctable modality of audition, became first inured, then attracted, then addicted to the long afternoon recitals of the doings in some distant baseball park.

An old man with a white beard and dressed in a long shabby coat, baggy trousers, and a black skullcap greeted us.

He held his long clenched foot in both hands, and this and his contorted face -- he was trying heroically not to cry out -- made him look like a large skinny old monkey.

All Charlie could look forward to was a yellow pill at noon, a salami sandwich for lunch, and a lonely old age -- if he lived that long.

This old world lost all of its helium and trace gases long ago.

Even his old literary home, Punch, where the When We Were Very Young verses had first appeared, was ultimately to reject him, as Christopher Milne details in his autobiography The Enchanted Places, although Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem ' The Norman Church ' and an assembly of articles entitled Year In, Year Out ( which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author ).

* Tamamuri: Head spirit looks like an old Asian warrior with a long white wispy beard.

The Maritz Rebellion or the Boer Revolt or the Five Shilling Rebellion or the Third Boer War, occurred in South Africa in 1914 at the start of World War I, in which men who supported the re-creation of the old Boer republics rose up against the government of the Union of South Africa because they did not want to side with the British against Germany so soon after they had had a long bloody war with the British.

Eastern Christians of eastern Europe and western Asia used for a long time the Julian Calendar, that of the old Orthodox church, in countries like Russia.

He cleared out the kistvaen, reporting that it was 5 foot 6 inches ( 1. 7 m ) long by 2 foot 8 inches ( 86 cm ) wide and that unlike most kistvaens found on the moor, the stones lining it had apparently been shaped by man, which led him to suggest that it was less old than most.

I think his study is important and can go a long way to dispelling the old " gays vs. God " dichotomy that too often gets played out in the media.

That the Earth is quite as old as he supposes, has long been my creed ..."

The opening sentence of the book created a classic Spanish cliché with the phrase (" whose name I do not wish to recall "): (" In a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to recall, there lived, not very long ago, one of those gentlemen with a lance in the lance-rack, an ancient shield, a skinny old horse, and a fast greyhound.

The Japanese destroyer commander finished with, " Yesterday I looked at myself in a mirror for a long time ; I was disagreeably surprised to see my face thin, full of wrinkles, and as old as though I were fifty.

The national team has often been criticized for playing an old fashioned long ball style game and having poor technical skills which has prevented them achieving success.

He lived a life of great simplicity, with few possessions and lived alone for a long time, but in his old age he adopted a friend's child who would otherwise have been left to die, and raised him with the aid of a woman.

One meaning often given is that of old songs, with no known composers ; another is music that has been transmitted and evolved by a process of oral transmission or performed by custom over a long period of time.

As the long winter of 1861 turned into spring, that old flag meant something new.