He was already known to the literary set of London coffeehouses as a young man of keen wit and high promise, but to the reading public at large he was as yet an unknown quantity.
In 1657 a barber who had opened one of the first coffeehouses in London was indicted for "making and selling a sort of liquor called coffee, as a great nuisance and prejudice of the neighborhood.
In Buenos Aires there are a great number of so-called Brazilian coffeehouses where about five o'clock afternoons people repair for coffee and ice cream.
They are a mixture of flavors, and thesecoffeehouses specialize in two flavors of coffee ice cream in the same brick.
Others, less ostentatious, were content with ink, and met at coffeehouses in the neighbourhood of the Royal Exchange.
Fortunately about this time a discovery was made which furnished both the camp at Lambeque and the coffeehouses of London with a subject of conversation much less agreeable to the Jacobites than the disaster of Steinkirk.
It was, however, hinted to him by some of his associates that, if he meant to take up the trade of swearing away lives, he would do well not to show himself so often at coffeehouses in the company of Titus.
But besides six or seven coffeehouses on the ground-floor of the Palais du Tribunat, there are also several subterraneous ones now open.
The principle coffeehouses here are fitted up with taste and elegance.
There must have been some very grave and important reasons for so extraordinary a measure: but what they were I do not pretend to guess; and perhaps I shall never know, though all the coffeehouses here do.
With such rumours as these all the coffeehousesof London were filled during the latter part of February.
He had been known, during several years, as a small poet; and some of the most savage lampoons which were handed about the coffeehouses were imputed to him.
Anxiety for my health and life Borough-jobber I shall never know, though all the coffeehouses here do.
Betting goes on in all coffeehouses of the neighbourhood.
Not even a voice in the coffeehouses rises for him.
In the coffeehouses that evening, says Prudhomme, Patriot shook hands with Patriot in a more cordial manner than usual.
Men stopped other men on the street and asked if they had read the "Vindication"; at the coffeehouses they wrangled and jangled over it; and all the time Dodsley smiled and rubbed his hands in glee.
A too-ready expression of the Rousseau philosophy had made things a bit unpleasant for Marat in Edinburgh, but in London he found ready listeners, and the coffeehouses echoed back his radical sentiments.
In the coffeehouses of London, in the Inns of Court, in the closes of all the Cathedral towns, in parsonages and manor houses scattered over the remotest shires, pity for the sufferers and indignation against the government went on growing.
The news of his disgrace seems to have taken the politicians of the coffeehouses by surprise, but did not astonish those who had observed what was passing in the palace.
On questions of polite learning his decisions were regarded at all the coffeehouses as without appeal.
He retired for a time from the bustle of coffeehouses and theatres to a quiet retreat in Huntingdonshire, and there composed, with unwonted care and labour, his celebrated poem on the points in dispute between the Churches of Rome and England.
Soon in all the coffeehouses was handed about a brutal lampoon on the courtly prelates whose pens the King had employed.
Soon the story made its way from the palace to the coffeehouses of the capital, and spread fast over the country.
It had also to compete with the gossip and scandal of the coffeehouses and the clubs; for this reason the proprietor found it no easy matter either to fill it or to sell it.
This little sheet, published thrice a week and sold at a penny a copy, contained more or less politics, to be sure, but the fact that it reflected the gossip ofcoffeehouses made it instantly popular.
The malecontents at the coffeehouses of London murmured at this profusion, and accused William of ostentation.
Certainly he never wrote of women except with gentle satire, and he became more and more a clubman, spending most of his time in the clubs and coffeehouses of London.
During this time Dryden had become the best known literary man of London, and was almost as much a dictator to the literary set which gathered in the taverns and coffeehouses as Ben Jonson had been before him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coffeehouses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
