coffee-tavern

Marcella, smiling, looked down with him over the bare coffee-tavern place, in which their party occupied a sort of high table across the end, while two other small gatherings were accommodated in the space below.

Marcella Humphry Ward 1885

Worse than that, he stepped up to the private door of the coffee-tavern and rang the bell.

The Town Traveller George Gissing 1880

Doves public-house, which was then a coffee-tavern.

Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney The Fascination of London John Cunningham Geikie 1865

The men from the coffee-tavern supplied the essentials, but the ladies undertook the decoration, and Aunt Adeline, in a basket-chair, with her feet on a box, directed the ornamentation with great taste and ability.

The Two Sides of the Shield Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Thus adjured, and with curiosity somewhat excited, Mrs Mooney suffered herself to be led to that temperance coffee-tavern in Gorleston to which we have already referred.

The Lively Poll A Tale of the North Sea 1859

Stephen Lockley invited his old comrades to meet him in the Gorleston coffee-tavern, and, over a rousing cup of "hot, with," delivered to them the following oration:

The Lively Poll A Tale of the North Sea 1859

There was -- probably still is -- a coffee-tavern in Gorleston where, in a cleanly, cheerful room, a retired fisherman and his wife, of temperance principles, supplied people with those hot liquids which are said to cheer without inebriating.

The Lively Poll A Tale of the North Sea 1859

It was a "public-house without drink" -- a coffee-tavern, where working men could find a cheap and wholesome meal, a cheerful, warm, and well-lit room wherein to chat and smoke, and the daily papers, without being obliged to swallow fire-water for the good of the house.

Post Haste 1859

But in the morning I had the luck to meet a policeman who directed me to a coffee-tavern in a place called Nobbs Lane -- you'll not know it, Miss, for it's in a very poor part o 'the town -- where I got a breakfast of as much hot pea-soup and bread as I could eat for three-ha'pence, an' had a good rest beside the fire too.

Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan 1859