hostelry

Example Sentences

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It is agreeable to escape, as Henley said, into the Street of By-and-Bye, where stands the Hostelry of Never.

From What's Wrong with the World by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Going home in the cab neither spoke until just as they were within a few blocks of the Hostelry when Dick broke the silence.

From Wild Wings A Romance of Youth by Piper, Margaret Rebecca

Hostel, hos′tel, Hostelry, hos′tel-ri, n. an inn: in some universities an extra-collegiate hall for students.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Rather against her will she had ensconced herself in a Student Hostelry where Jean Lambert, Phil's older sister, had been living several years very happily, first as a student and later as a successful illustrator.

From Wild Wings A Romance of Youth by Piper, Margaret Rebecca

Arrived home at the Hostelry, armed with this approval, Tony found her Uncle's answering wire bidding her do as she thought best and sending heartiest love and congratulations.

From Wild Wings A Romance of Youth by Piper, Margaret Rebecca