Sentence examples for on a saloon from inspiring English sources

He speaks Latin, quotes Coleridge and plays Chopin on a saloon piano, sending his adoring girlfriend (Joanna Pacula) into erotic reveries.

The playwright Eugene O'Neill once described on a saloon table "an old desiccated ruin of dust-laden bread and mummified ham or cheese which only the drunkest yokel from the sticks" would ever dream of eating.

In Shane the community centres on a saloon and a few romantic shacks on the open prairie; in Heaven's Gate the bustling, polluted city of Casper, Wyoming symbolises the new America.

The lights go up on a saloon; we're at an Irish wake, and McAlary (Tom Hanks) is being memorialized in a moving Celtic song: I've been a wild rover for many's the year, I've spent all me money on whiskey and beer, But now I'm returning with gold in great store, And I never will play the wild rover no more.

The first owner and publisher, William Byers, who founded the paper on the second floor of a saloon, decided early on, for example, that Eastern moneyed investors would want Denver to have good steamboat access — a profoundly unrealistic prospect here on the High Plains.

The first time I played, I saw an outlaw murder a prostitute on the steps of a saloon; I chased him and gunned him down.

It shows a bleeding, desperate young man on the floor of a saloon, confronted by a mob led by two officious ranchers, a stolid man (Ward Bond) and a fiery woman (Mercedes McCambridge), who offer to spare his life — if he admits that Vienna (the saloon owner, played by Joan Crawford) is a member of his outlaw gang (which, in fact, she isn't).

Those on the ends curve inward; that in the center has an ebullient outward-swelling roof, like the bustle on the scarlet dress of a saloon floozy.

Lingg was delivering his bombs to a saloon on the North Side, more than two miles away; he didn't know about the Haymarket meeting.

A loss more final is suffered by "Stonewall Torrey," a character in George Stevens's "Shane" (1953) played by Elisha Cook Jr. Torrey is making his way to a saloon on a muddy street.

The mortar was barely dry when other newspapers set upon the legacy of Mr. Greeley, a staunch temperance advocate: The Tribune had rented space on the ground floor to a saloon.