Word Finder - inn

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Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.

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A tavern.

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One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers.

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the Inns of Court; the Inns of Chancery; Serjeants' Inns

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The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.

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Leicester Inn

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A place of shelter; hence, dwelling; habitation; residence; abode.

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To house; to lodge.

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To take lodging; to lodge.

You've got a inn to run.

There was not a room to be had at the inn, they were all occupied.

This is our inn and we choose who stays here.

How could I get away with an inn full of guests?

This is an inn and someone has to keep it cleaned.

Gray's Inn, between High Holborn and Theobald's Road, and west of Gray's Inn Road, is of similar arrangement.

Yup. Bird Song is a small inn and I'd know.

We're running an inn and we see a lot of different people.

The inn needed the business.

At a Ramada Inn, only he wasn't really there; just the address he gave.

There were other guests at Bird Song and enough regular problems running a country inn without creating any more.

I've got an inn to run.

At the inn at Yankovo he respectfully took leave of her, for the first time permitting himself to kiss her hand.

I'm just trying to run an inn and keep the guests from killing each other.

He wanted a room, but you told him the inn was full and sent him away.

Little is known with certainty of his university career beyond the facts that he became a fellow of Jesus College in 1510 or 1511, that he had soon after to vacate his fellowship, owing to his marriage to " Black Joan," a relative of the landlady of the Dolphin Inn, and that he was reinstated in it on the death of his wife, which occurred in childbirth before the lapse of the year of grace allowed by the statutes.

The restaurant's atmosphere is very "country inn" and the clientele is mixed from the upper-class to poor college students there for a special dinner.

Known for its scenic views ideal for photographs, the inn features a candlelight dining area, monthly recipe specials and superior hospitality.

When we were shown a 1792 restored Inn in the nearby village of Surry, New Hampshire, it was love at first sight.

They lucked out on the matter of inn sitting.

As a lawyer his greatest public efforts were his lectures (1799) at Lincoln's Inn on the law of nature and nations, of which the introductory discourse was published, and his eloquent defence (1803) of Jean Gabriel Peltier, a French refugee, tried at the instance of the French government for a libel against the first consul.

His back was aching by the time he hauled the last chest to the patio behind the inn where the raiders could divvy the spoils.

Bird Song was empty when the Deans returned after retrieving the Jeep and making their way to the inn by back streets.

The inn contained nine rentable rooms, each with a private bath.

It's your inn and you've been very kind to all of us.

He hadn't set eyes on the man since he'd decked him in front of his inn and that was fine in his book.

For this, the king granted Berford's Hall, formerly Charleston's Inn, which Chicheley's trustees had granted to him so as to obtain a royal grant and indefeasible title.

Of the former Inns of Chancery attached to these Inns of Court the most noteworthy buildings remaining are those of Staple Inn, of which the timbered and gabled Elizabethan front upon High Holborn is a unique survival of its character in a London thoroughfare; and of Barnard's Inn, occupied by the Mercer's School.

On the 9th of April their main body of six corps crossed the Inn between Braunau and Passau, and simultaneously two additional corps moved from Pilsen in Bohemia on Regensburg.

Upper Austria belongs to the watershed of the Danube, which flows through it from west to east, and receives here on the right the Inn with the Salzach, the Traun, the Enns with the Steyr and on its left the Great and Little Mühl rivers.

When night came on he stopped at a pleasant roadside inn and asked for lodging.

There was an inn in the village which the officers frequented.

Kutuzov fell back toward Vienna, destroying behind him the bridges over the rivers Inn (at Braunau) and Traun (near Linz).

This was unusual, as Bird Song's matron had pestered him about the details of the emerging flora since he had arrived at the inn the prior week.

While the town was bursting at its seams for tomorrow's holiday, the side street where the Deans' inn was located was peacefully quiet.

If about eighty percent of your help left town maybe my nice country inn wouldn't look like Dillinger's hideout and we could get down to business and wrap this up.

He was educated at Harrow and at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1786.

A friend of the family, Lord Foley, provided the funds for his legal training, and he became a member of Lincoln's Inn on his departure from Oxford, being called to the bar in 1730.

On the other hand, it is generally the case that even in the most unpromising inn the bedding is clean.

Of Furnival's and Thavies Inns, attached to Lincoln's Inn, only the names remain.

The varied collections of Sir John Soane, accumulated at his house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, are open to view as the Soane Museum.

The Royal College of Physicians is in Pall Mall East, and the Royal College of Surgeons is in Lincoln's Inn Fields.

Other museums are Sir John Soane's collection in Lincoln's Inn Fields and the Museum of Practical Geology in Jermyn Street, while the scientific societies have libraries and in some cases collections of a specialized character, such as the museums of the Royal College of Surgeons, the Royal Architectural Society, and the Society of Art and the Parkes Museum of the Sanitar y Institute.

Shortly after this they came to London and settled in Holborn near L i ncoln's Inn, where they remained for more than fifty years.

Another of the favourite haunts of the people was the garden of Gray's Inn, where the choicest society was to be met.

The Boar's Head in Great Eastcheap was an inn of Taverns.

In 1613 The Masque of Flowers was presented by the members of Gray's Inn in the Old Banqueting House in honour of the marriage of the infamous Carr, earl of Somerset, and the equally infamous Lady Frances, daughter of the earl of Suffolk.

Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, was built about 1629, and named in honour of Henrietta Maria.

Lincoln's Inn Fields had been planned some years before.

In 1858 he was made preacher at Lincoln's Inn and there preached some striking sermons, a volume of which he published in 1861.