TOLD IN THE STORM The front room of the roadhousewas deserted save for the slumbering bartender, back-tilted in a corner, his chin upon his chest, and one other man who sat in the glare of a swing lamp playing solitaire.
Thomasville journeyed out to a certainroadhouse run by a Frenchman, and returned with a case of eggs wrapped up in a woolen comforter.
In storms of this kind men have lain in their sleeping-bags for days within a stone's-throw of a roadhouse or village.
In the one-time roadhouse on Washington Square was a saloon the name of which suggested an embryotic impulse toward poetry; or perhaps she picked that particular "pub" at random.
It was a roadhouse of some repute in 1820, and a famous meeting place for celebrities in the sporting world.
One day he was on his way home from Albany and stopped at a roadhouse at Kingston.
This roadhouse doesn't have much of a reputation, so I've been told.
But at the first roadhouse that showed a blue-and-white telephone sign he left it, and into the iron box at the end of the bar dropped a nickel.
I'm speaking from a roadhouse in the Bronx; going straight from here to the bank.
The Chateau was a quasi-roadhouse of some architectural dignity, widely advertised as being under the same management as one of the smart Broadway cafes, and supplying the same food and drink, at twice the Broadway price.
The Government was surveying this trail, and we thought we'd build this roadhouse and pick up a few dollars taking care of travelers.
At night in the roadhouse I have great trouble in getting into my bunk, and sometimes Breeze has to lift me out in the morning.
We have already traveled nearly thirty miles to-day, and are anxious to make the roadhouse twelve or fifteen miles further on; and now, here comes this big, blundering beast to poke our trail full of deep holes and excite our dogs.
This is real work, and we reach the roadhouse in the middle of the afternoon, but not so tired as on the preceding day.
The old Frenchman who kept the trading-post and roadhouse advised Gordon not to attempt the tramp alone.
But the last roadhouse was twenty-seven miles back.
If he had answered the call he would have learned from Diane, who was at the other end of the line, that the stage upon which Sheba had started for Katma had not reached the roadhouse at Smith's Crossing.
One of the items was that the stage for Katma had failed to reach the roadhouse at Smith's Crossing.
The keeper of the roadhouse added his private fears that the stage, crawling up the divide as the blizzard swept down, must have gone astray and its occupants perished.
An Indian village lay sprawled along the bank, and through this the two men tramped to the roadhouse where they were to put up for the night.
Near the roadhouse was an Indian village where he had expected to get a guide for the journey to Kamatlah.
The golfer was thirsty, and halted at a roadhouse for a pint of champagne--his favorite wine.
The chauffeur found his opportunity when he was ordered to stop the big red, white and blue car at a roadhouse just prior to the game.
The old native had lost his first wife and married another and younger one, the pretty woman spoken of by wide-mouthed Curley in the Keewalik roadhouse some days before.
It appeared that they had reached a roadhouse with a dancing pavilion and park attached to it, much in favor with excursion parties from the country around.
The Palisades was a new roadhouse up the river and the rage of that summer.
But we will keep a roadhouse if we go there," said Alma, "and be making some money.
The woman runs a roadhouse on the Neukluk River, and wants to take an Eskimo boy to raise, and teach to work--probably it is mostly the latter, though she seemed a kindly person.
Maybe they got 'em to go into a roadhouse for refreshments and then drove off with the wagons on the sly.
He didn't dare, for he had to pass the very roadhouse where we left those drivers.
One of the older academy seniors got them to leave their wagons and go into the roadhouse with him.
Onward, until before them was the bleak, rat-ridden old roadhouse which formed Laura's home, and a light was gleaming within.
No, he's going to start a roadhouseout on the almshouse drive in a few months; swell place, you know.
The affair at the roadhouse was but the beginning.
The roadhouse stands in a garden of flowers well back from the thoroughfare in a nicely kept lawn.
Austin conducted a roadhouse on the way to the Power House Number One: this in addition to his saloon in Sycamore Flats.
LaHume's father founded the roadhouse down yonder," I said, pointing towards a resort which yet goes by the LaHume name, and one which does not enjoy a reputation any too savory.
I returned, not averse to rubbing it into the descendant of the roadhouse keeper.
When the mail arrived, as it did at irregular intervals, all work on the creek was suspended, and the men flocked to the roadhouse to receive their scanty dole of letters and papers.
It was late when he awoke in the morning, and after he had eaten his frugal breakfast, he went over to the roadhouse for a supply of tobacco.
When the letter was finished he took it over to the roadhouse to mail, and then spent the rest of the afternoon upon the creek in an effort to learn, if possible, something about Frontier Samson.
