• Inn-yard

    Full definition of inn-yard

    Noun

    inn-yard

    (plural inn-yards)
      • Radcliffe Forest|volume=II|chapter=XI|page=162|passage=After ordering refreÅ¿hments, he went out to Å¿peak with the landlord, but had Å¿carcely left the room, when Adeline obÅ¿erved a party of horÅ¿emen enter the inn-yard, and Å¿he had no doubt theÅ¿e were the perÅ¿ons from whom they fled.
      • 1839, w:Charles Lever, The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer Chapter 26, I immediately opened the door and stepped out into the inn-yard, crowded with conducteurs, grooms, and ostlers, who, I thought, looked rather surprised at seeing me emerge from the diligence.
      • Stoker Dracula|chapter=Jonathan Harker’s Journal|page=7|passage=I shall never forget the last glimpse which I had of the inn-yard and its crowd of picturesque figures, all crossing themselves, as they stood round the wide archway, with its background of rich foliage of oleander and orange trees in green tubs clustered in the centre of the yard.
      • Noyes Poems|poem=The Highwayman|stanza=IV|pages=46–47|pageref=46|passage=And dark in the dark old inn-yard a stable-wicket creaked
        Where Tim the ostler listened; his face was white and peaked;
        His eyes were hollows of madness, his hair like mouldy hay, ...
      • 1921, w:H. A. Guerber, Stories of Famous Operas, This time, he is thrust aside by the vigorous young arm of Guglielmo, a young gentleman who has just stepped into the inn-yard, closely followed by a servant carrying his portemanteau.
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