With more than a quarter century at the sharp end of counter-terrorism operations, Lambert is scarcely a bleeding-heart liberal.
Mr. Poxley leaned on the end of the counter and watched him walk in the door.
We waited while the waitress chatted with a customer at the far end of the counter.
"Tempo, tempo!" urged a customer at the other end of the counter.
He retreated to the far end of the counter and picked up a phone.
There was a stack of recent copies of The Washington Post at one end of the counter, but an actor's drink was on top of it.
What the fuck blue teapot?" "At the end of the counter — the lid got broken, so we used it to just throw things in — " "Shut up.
If it is pulled out and someone sits on a built-in bench at the end of the counter, four or more can use the table.
The man chose the seat at the end of the counter, took off his coat, and in a quiet voice ordered a beer, then silently read a thick book.
There are nine people waiting at one end of the counter for their coffee to be served and six people in line at the other end waiting to order.
There were two or three people inside — a woman and a little girl, a sailor — and Mr. Beresford retired to the far end of the counter and began to fuss with an elaborate cigarette box on which was written "Souvenir of New York City," with a trylon and a perisphere painted beneath.
