I'll catch the fellow in the act," said the innkeeper to himself, stealing up to the door, and taking good care not to be observed.
If it was a reproach upon the English nation, that an innkeeper should pillage strangers at that rate; it is a greater scandal, that the same fellow should be able to keep his house still open.
En route he was inveigled into a controversy of unwonted bitterness with an innkeeper at le Muy.
The innkeeper handed the lamp to his wife, who had approached, and made haste to obey.
They mounted to the garret, and the innkeeper continued: "All day long I have been in a cold sweat with fear.
Mr Cole expressed a fervent hope that it would be long before Macomo lit his fire, but the innkeeper expected it would shortly blaze; and the innkeeper was right.
Amyas sat still, wondering what was coming next, and puzzled at the sudden hilarity of the man, as well as his hospitality, so different from what the innkeeper had led him to expect.
Amyas sat weary and sad, while the innkeeper chattered on.
Cyrus,” they said, “had been a father and Cambyses a master, but Darius was only an innkeeper greedy of gain.
The royal innkeeper was just as polite to him as to others.
To divert his impatience, Montfanon bade the innkeeper point out to him whither they had carried Florent, and he ascended to the tiny room, where the doctor was dressing the wounded man's leg.
The lad has character, I see; pray give him this"--and he handed the innkeeper half a sovereign.
A couple of hours later Vamhidy learnt from the innkeeper that the manager, without any previous leave-taking, had decamped leaving behind him his decorations and theatrical wardrobe as some compensation for his trifling debts.
The innkeeper did not count courage among his virtues.
Leonard therefore always made a point of aggravating the innkeeper by pretending to believe that his wife was his daughter and by regularly asking him, as if he were her grandfather, when he intended to get his granddaughter married.
Then I suppose you think it was the innkeeper himself who robbed me?
Recently the tavern has changed hands, and the old innkeeper has carried off with him the golden locks.
The innkeeper of the little place managed to possess himself of it, and at once dubbed his tavern "A la Chevelure d'Or.
All through the night they travelled, and in the morning the innkeeper found himself, to his confusion, not where he had reckoned to part with the others, but in the environs of the capital.
The innkeeper shook his head: "Impossible, unless you fly through the air," he said.
The Baal Shem took up his quarters in a humble district, while the dazed innkeeper wandered about the streets of the great city, undecided what to do.
I see Joseph the innkeeper has waxed more like a barrel than ever.
The innkeeper ran towards them and he said-- "Do not despair.
I now perceived him to be the innkeeper Vlacho, and a moment later he reined up beside me, giving an angry jerk at his pony's bridle.
An innkeeper and an honest Calvinist to boot, he had married a converted Jewess and laid the foundations of his prosperity with the money she brought him.
The three travellers, happy to be able to rest, got down from their saddles when the innkeeper came out on the step of his door and excused himself, saying all his rooms were taken.
The innkeeper recognised one of his guests in the man stretched on the ground, whom no care could revive.
They all crowded around the tiny window in the corner which served as postoffice and waited eagerly while the innkeeper sorted out the papers, letters and packages.
Let's see if we can find that cabin the innkeeper lady said was about a mile up the mountain road from our place.
For he added to his other occupations that of poaching, and the innkeeper often bought from him a hare or a rabbit.
Yes, yes," replied the innkeeper and his womankind in chorus.
Evidently the captain and the innkeeper were old acquaintances, if not occasional partners in trade.
Hal could see the innkeeper presently, while answering her, put his hand to his chin.
Kit dismounted and examined them, then struck a bargain with the innkeeperfor their use, dragging the latter's slow wits to a decision by main force.
The innkeeper had an ugly look on his face, but he controlled his temper with an effort.
The innkeeper was labouring under some strong emotion, for he seemed to be pleading and pointing urgently towards the door.
McCunn, so that theinnkeeper might be ashamed of his suspicions.
The innkeeper seated himself unbidden on the chair which held Dickson's modest raiment.
He was now the focus of all suspicion, and the innkeeper would be as good as his word and try to drive him out of the place by force.
The innkeeper obtruded his bulk through the low door.
Luckily the innkeeper did not hear, for at that moment with a jolt the cart pulled up at the station door, accompanied by the roar of the incoming train.
The innkeeper went slowly past the factor's house; then halted and retraced his steps; then, making sure that the street was empty, turned into the side lane which led to the garden.
The aged postman addressed strange objurgations to his aged horse and muttered reflections to himself, the innkeeper smoked, and Dickson stared back into the misty hollow where lay Dalquharter.
Dickson watched the innkeeper shoulder his way through the crowd in the direction of the booking office.
There was a tumbling of men in the doorway, a muttering of strange tongues, and the vision of the innkeeper shouting to Leon and Spidel.
Here we have all the materials for your blessed romance--old mansion, extinct family, village deserted of men, and an innkeeperwhom I suspect of being a villain.
He saw that it was Dobson the innkeeper with Leon beside him.
And that foul innkeeper and that brigand at the gate.
It became Dickson's immediate object to get the innkeeper to reveal himself by rousing his temper.
The thought that the innkeeper might be going to offer him the money stung him into anger.
On this state of the facts, two questions have been agitated:— “1st, Whether the right of an innkeeper to detain a horse for his food extends to horses owned by individuals and employed in the transportation of the public mail.
The innkeeper answered: "Nothing, unless it be that we have a princess immeasurably fond of playing cards, and who says that no one is able to play with her.
Then he followed his brothers to a room where they were already seated at a table, and calling with terrible uproar on the innkeeper for wine.
The innkeeperwould not let them go because of their debt.
It was at this point of the conversation, carried on in English, and therefore unintelligible to Wirtig, that the innkeeper pounced upon his daughter and her lover.
The innkeeper put him in the empty house--and he--Dios!
The innkeeper at Bodega Central--he told me I might sleep in an empty house back of the inn.
The innkeeper did say that a Turk had died there--some sort of intestinal trouble, I believe.
The innkeeper pried around until he discovered that they spent much time in their room poring over maps and papers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "innkeeper" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
