Sentence examples for the saloon of from inspiring English sources

Santa Mira, Calif., the small town where the invasion begins, lacks even the symbolically opposed gathering points — the church and the saloon — of "High Noon's" Hadleyville.

In the saloons of Limerick, to this day, they don't like to talk about it.

And the suburban burghers hadn't yet filled the saloons of Broadway with their pretheater gas-baggery.

My mother was also trying to calm down my father's act, to put some distance between him and the saloons of Yorkville.

So, as they used to say in the saloons of the old West, "don't shoot the pianist, he's doing his best".

He cultivated his alcoholism and his alienated posture in the saloons of Battery Park, then hit bottom in 1912 when he attempted suicide.

But it did leave him with a seven-seater passenger vehicle, and he used it to set up a transportation business – ferrying iron ore miners from Hibbing to the saloons of Alice at 15¢ a time.

"Politics were low and corrupt; politics were not for 'gentlemen,'" Thayer wrote "They were the business and pastime of liquor-dealers, and of the degenerates and loafers who frequented the saloons, of horse-car conductors, and of many others whose ties with 'respectability were slight".

Ignoring the man playing pool behind him and the snatches of conversation wafting up from the saloon bar of the London pub downstairs, he seems to lose himself in thought.

I imagine it's like meeting your wife at 4am in the saloon bar of life.

But as Mr. McCrum writes, "In a world where 175,000 new blogs are launched every day, to argue about the cultural validity of text-Shakespeare is a bit like arguing about your bill in the saloon bar of the Titanic".