After we had dispatched our compliments to each other, and I had awkwardly returned in country scrapes his a la mode bows and cringes, he needs must prevail with me to join him at a tavern hard by and dine with some gentlemen of his acquaintance.
1964, Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
In a bar hard by P. P. Layouts, Richard Hnatt sat sipping a Tequila Sour.