They are going into PUBS which have been burnt out to find beer which is not there."
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
"Secondly, your friend O'Brien turns out to be a gentleman with a failing for liquor who was sent up by his relations in Ireland about six months ago to live under Dr. Rendall's charge, there being no PUBS in Ransay-and many in the island he came from.
"The Man From the Clouds"
J. Storer Clouston
He 'as to give all his money except a shilling a week to his wife, and he's not allowed to go into PUBS.
"Dialstone Lane, Part 1."
W.W. Jacobs