The easy circumstances, in comparison with many others, he enjoyed, left him both means and leisure for such a course; and few days passed without his paying a visit to the "shebeen-house" of the village.
"St. Patrick's Eve"
Charles James Lever
"I have managed it, Captain; we have got hold of the best quarters in the village; it is a room over the only shebeen here.
"With Moore At Corunna"
G. A. Henty
Sure, your honour, if you think that it is necessary, of course it must be done; but would it not be as well to go to the shebeen first and to take possession of the room, and to get comfortably settled down in it before ye gives me away?
"With Moore At Corunna"
G. A. Henty