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Coffeehouse   /kˈɔfihˌaʊs/   Listen
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Coffeehouse  n.  A house of entertainment, where guests are supplied with coffee and other refreshments, and where men meet for conversation. "The coffeehouse must not be dismissed with a cursory mention. It might indeed, at that time, have been not improperly called a most important political institution.... The coffeehouses were the chief organs through which the public opinion of the metropolis vented itself.... Every man of the upper or middle class went daily to his coffeehouse to learn the news and discuss it. Every coffeehouse had one or more orators, to whose eloquence the crowd listened with admiration, and who soon became what the journalists of our own time have been called a fourth estate of the realm."





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"Coffeehouse" Quotes from Famous Books



... months at least in vain? Did not his countryman, Count Corniani,[76] Call me the only virtuous wife in Spain? Were there not also Russians, English, many? The Count Strongstroganoff I put in pain, And Lord Mount Coffeehouse, the Irish peer, Who killed himself for love (with wine) ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron
 
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... master and servant would be at least a tie which would attach me to the rest of my kind—as it is, my very independence seems to enhance the peculiarity of my situation. I am in the world as a stranger in the crowded coffeehouse, where he enters, calls for what refreshment he wants, pays his bill, and is forgotten so soon as the waiter's mouth has pronounced ...
— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott
 
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... for two months at the bar of the 'Barley Mow,' in Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, and at Mr. Mazzingby's, No 17, Chancery Lane; at the expiration thereof the money so subscribed shall be paid to the committee now appointed at 'New Lloyd's' Coffeehouse, and by them appropriated to ...
— Grace Darling - Heroine of the Farne Islands • Eva Hope
 
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... sub dio; got a list of peers by heart in one company, and with great familiarity retailed them in another. Above all, they constantly attended those committees of Senators who are silent in the House and loud in the coffeehouse, where they nightly adjourn to chew the cud of politics, and are encompassed with a ring of disciples who lie in wait to catch up their droppings. The three brothers had acquired forty other qualifications of the like stamp too tedious to recount, and by ...
— A Tale of a Tub • Jonathan Swift
 
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... hour," he said as they neared a coffeehouse on the main street. "We must have something more solid than the pretty maiden's gingerbread"—and the captain plunged his hands into his pockets as if to say, "There's money enough ...
— Hans Brinker - or The Silver Skates • Mary Mapes Dodge
 
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... happened this way—that your nephew met him at a coffeehouse, fell upon him with the most demneble ferocity, followed him to his cab, swore he would ride home with him, if he rode upon the horse's back or hooked himself on to the horse's tail; smashed his countenance, which is a demd fine countenance in its natural ...
— The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens
 
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