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Here one is in an almost undisguised working-men’s quarter, for even the shops and beerhouses hardly take the trouble to exhibit a trifling degree of cleanliness. 

From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Kelley, Florence

All kitchens and beerhouses refuse on the same pretence.

From Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland by Scott, Daniel

Professors and students disliked to be taken so far from their lodgings and their beerhouses, and the old university had been quite within the city.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Or sitting in beerhouses reading the financial pages of a German paper held upside down.

From Simon the Jester by Locke, William John

Three or four wretched public-houses or beerhouses had existed in the village.

From In the Eastern Seas by Kingston, William Henry Giles