Sentence examples for tavern sign from inspiring English sources

6This sketch for a tavern sign was included in an account entry for Dec. 31, 1797.

The story involves secret pipes, codewords and a tavern sign with a tomcat: an example of great ingenuity in the face of official disapproval, of survival in a world of zealous officers and informers.

Learn why Sam Adams (yes, the namesake of the beer) was strapped to a chair that was hung from a tavern sign - so he coule be ridiculed by the townspeople for a few hours - at the folksy Vermont History Museum in Montpelier.

"It's really pretty clear that taverns originated in Connecticut and the other New England colonies very early on," said Susan Schoelwer, director of museum collections for the Connecticut Historical Society, which recently assembled an exhibition on early American taverns and tavern signs.

When George Washington assembled his troops in New York to hear the ringing phrases read aloud, they caused a near riot, as militiamen and civilians rampaged along Broadway, demolishing every vestige of the Crown, down to the "royal arms painted on tavern signs," Ron Chernow writes in his biography of Alexander Hamilton.

On a stumpy brick building overshadowed by apartment blocks, I saw the tavern's sign.

He sat with Dred-Peacock in the taproom of the Pine Dog, a pleasant tavern with a sign showing an eponymous carved mastiff, now their favored meeting place, as the Sign of the Red Bottle had burned in a conflagration that took half the wharves and several ships.

DOWN the block from the White Horse Tavern, where a sign pays tribute to the final whiskey drunk by Dylan Thomas, there sat, until recently, another curious West Village memorial.

The Londoners stand outside a tavern with the sign of the Good Woman (one without a head); a woman and man in the second-storey window look surprised as the contents of her bowl are tossed out the window.

The Londoners stand outside a tavern with the sign of the Good Woman (one without a head); a woman and man in the second-story window look surprised as the contents of her bowl are tossed out the window.

The family rush home, past the New River and a tavern with a sign showing Sir Hugh Myddleton, who bankrupted himself financing the construction of the river to bring running water into London in 1613 (a wooden pipe lies by the side of the watercourse).