The barkeeper was packing the ice chest and a couple of "types" were getting their "reg'lar" as the two strangers from another world entered.
An aspiring barkeeper of puzzling methods was, much to his indignation, hedged about by daily accountings and, last of all, a thick and double door of demarcation was made between the bar-room and the house.
The build of Hartigan at once suggested plain-clothes policeman, and the barkeeper eyed him suspiciously.
The barkeeper made a gesture, pointing to the back room.
The barkeeper was obdurate, but the man was in such a desperate plight that the Widow Hartigan was summoned.
He was not supposed to enter the saloon; and when, one day, she found an unscrupulous barkeeper actually amusing himself by giving the child a taste of the liquid fire, she acted with her usual promptitude and vigour.
The barkeeper put down the beer he had just drawn, wiped his hand hurriedly, and with sudden enthusiasm thrust it across the bar.
At the end of the room, at the bar, Jimmie Dale leaned toward the barkeeper and talked out of the corner of his mouth.
Then the barkeeper went down to the corner where Malone was sitting, with his pipe in his fingers, unlighted and unfilled, gazing fixedly at vacancy.
The barkeeper set the bottle before them, and they poured out the liquor.
He shuffled across to the bar and paid for his drinks, and asked the barkeeper if there was a stamp to be had.
Half an hour afterwards the saloon happened again to be empty, and seeing the barkeeper at liberty, Malone asked for the loan of an inkstand and a pen, and for a sheet of paper and an envelope.
But he was still more surprised when the barkeeper volunteered the information that he had seen Mr. Byers hurriedly pass down the side veranda into the highroad.
The barkeeper of the hotel was civil, but brief and gloomy.
The complete ignoring of his person by the barkeeper and his customers, however, somewhat disconcerted him.
The Commodore," said the barkeeper with impassive features, as he bent forward and wiped the counter with professional deliberation, "is right.
The barkeeper cast his eye professionally over the barroom.
Barkeeper buys watermelons for five cents up the river, brings them down and sells them for fifty.
And where so many are saying their say, shall not the barkeeper testify?
He had risen by perseverance and industry, through long years of service, from the position of barkeeper in a commonplace saloon to his present altitude.
He's the barkeeper who gave me something to eat when I first came to town.
Old Lockman used to say there was too many glass works," the barkeeper added.
When he had concluded a gabbled exhortation and premonishment, they rose.
Um--" The barkeeper hesitated a moment, and then went to the door and looked up and down.
The club of which the barkeeper had spoken as a gambling resort is an oddity in name, if in no other way.
The barkeeper thought the play was heavy; this is interesting as showing what is considered heavy play at Punta Arenas.
The barkeeper set the two foaming glasses before us, and with pride I deposited the ten cents.
The barkeeperkept his head, but his color changed.
An encounter took place in Sparta, a few days since, between the barkeeper of an hotel, and a man named Bury.
The barkeeper told Lafe that she got it so quick it made his hair curl, and she was sure a waitress.
The landlord, after watching them for a while, remarked thoughtfully to the barkeeper that he hoped they would find everything all right.
The barkeeper brought a tried judgment to bear on these symptoms and furtively closed one eye at the proprietor.
The doctor was in the lead as we entered, and we both knew the barkeeper well.
This barkeeper was a practical joker himself, and he and the doctor were great hunting companions.
On reaching his end of the bar, I noticed the barkeeper going through motions that looked like passing him a gun, and in the same instant some friend behind me laid the butt of a pistol in my hand behind my back.
It was just daybreak, and between that Dutch cattle salesman and the barkeeper and myself, it would have taken a bookkeeper to have kept a check on the drinks we consumed--every one the last.
As we left by the front door, we saw the barkeeper leaning against a hitching post half a block below.
And perhaps in his larger experience the barkeeper was right.
He sat at a disused card table studiously thumbing over an old magazine, and as he raised his dram thebarkeeper glowered at him intolerantly.
Brady, throwing him away with his foot; but as the cat's demands became more and more insistent the barkeeper was at last constrained to take some notice.
He hiked up his shoulders, twisted his head to a pose, and shrilled his final sarcasms in the tones of a finicky old lady; but the stranger stuck resolutely to his reading, whereupon the black barkeeper went sullen and took a drink by himself.
Baffled and evaded in every play the evil-eyed barkeepersuddenly sensed a conspiracy to show him up, and instantly the realization of his humiliation made him dangerous.
Tex and jerking his thumb dubiously at the corner, and as the barkeeper scowled and shrugged his shoulders he set down his glass and stared.
The barkeeper disappeared into a back room, was gone a few minutes, and then returned and said: "The professor is quite alone.
Ef it's a barkeeper you're looking for, and not a lady, say so!
Now I know that it wasn't whiskey only ye came for, I'll show you that Sue Beasley is no slouch of a barkeeper either," she said.
Then one by one the loungers in the bar-room silently and awkwardly followed, and when the barkeeper turned back from putting away his decanters and glasses, to his astonishment the room was empty.
The barkeeper held the sack mouth downward over the scales and shook it, and a few flakes of gold dust fell out.
Go on, make it a man's drink," the barkeeper encouraged.
The barkeeper emitted a long and marvelling whistle.
He tried vainly to utter his acceptance; but the barkeeper had not waited and was already passing out the bottle.
You've been dead for more'n two months, now," thebarkeeper explained.
The barkeeper looked sharply at it and him, then set out a bottle and a glass.
The city inspector of sidewalks was a barkeeper at the War Whoop Cafe--and maybe he could make it uncomfortable for any tradesman who did not stand in with Scully!
The policeman crouched over him, clutching his stick, waiting for him to try to rise again; and meantime the barkeeper got up, and put his hand to his head.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "barkeeper" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
