The tapster only smiled and said, "Somebody may know him.

Then he reached out, groping for the tapster's arm, his eyes fixed on the girl.

The tapster returned with the shandies, thumping them down on the table.

The tapster looked as though he were disgusted to've served something so debased.

That was true, though neither the tapster nor any other man in this dive was likely to believe it.

They nodded coldly but did not speak until the tapster returned with a round of ale.

Indeed a tapster's arithmetic may soon bring his particulars therein to a total.

The tapster had crooked a finger toward a dun-colored man at a comer table.

It was mid afternoon and none else were present but the associate tapster, his wound knitted.

Kerr barged inside, told the tapster who he was, and demanded to see the landlord.

Hence the word skinker for a pourer or tapster.

The tapster cut him a nasty look.

The tapster came with his drink, setting it down on the table and watching Mon sidelong as he walked back behind the bar.

I am ill at reck'ning; it fitteth the spirit of a tapster.

Of course, the coroner personally knew Joscelyn, the tapster.

She supposed the police must have traced her by making enquiries at the Surly Tapster.

Lythande flung a coin to the tapster's boy.

"Shalpa the swift alone knows," the tapster said.

"Morning, Rutledge," sighed the tapster, setting aside his knife.

But in the end it is the cagey exuberance of this leprechaun tapster that makes the work so enjoyable.

This talented tapster has stories.

Approaching me bar, he held out a pound note and ascertained from the bewildered tapster that it was, indeed, acceptable tender.

Daniel glanced at the tapster and said, "So, Mon?

Though you change your place you need not change your trade; I'll be your tapster still.

On his orders the tapster broached a good cask of wine and brought across a bowl of water.