1 On reaching the tavern, Chichikov called a halt.
2 The little wooden tavern, with its narrow, but hospitable, curtain suspended from a pair of rough-hewn doorposts like old church candlesticks, seemed to invite Chichikov to enter.
3 Peering through the window, he saw draw up to the tavern door a light britchka drawn by three fine horses.
4 Also, I wonder how you came to meet your end; whether in a tavern, or whether through going to sleep in the middle of the road and being run over by a train of waggons.
5 However, as I say, the pair ended by swearing eternal friendship with one another, and making a practice of resorting to the village tavern in company.
6 And whether in his office or at the Exchange, he would stop any friend whom he encountered and carry him off to a tavern to drink, and spend whole days thus employed.
7 He found Bazarov at the tavern where they were staying, and was a long while persuading him to go with him to the Governor's.
8 When workmen have finished their work they do at least receive their pay, they go to the tavern, then they are taken to the police-station--and there is occupation for a week.
9 One night as I was passing a tavern I saw through a lighted window some gentlemen fighting with billiard cues, and saw one of them thrown out of the window.
10 They will scatter the wet blue clay as quick as they can and go off to the tavern.
11 I should feel much more comfortable in a private house than in this disreputable tavern.
12 They had hardly ridden up a hill, past a tavern, before they saw a group of horsemen coming toward them.
13 In the tavern, before which stood the doctor's covered cart, there were already some five officers.
14 Two tall old peasants with wrinkled faces and scanty beards emerged from the tavern, smiling, staggering, and singing some incoherent song, and approached the officers.
15 The publican was fighting one of the smiths at the door, and when the workmen came out the smith, wrenching himself free from the tavern keeper, fell face downward on the pavement.