dram
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It was, after all, an illegal dram shop during Prohibition and the need for secrecy was essential, especially since the queer patrons themselves were breaking the law by openly existing in public.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2025
To him, spirits provided what he called “accessible luxury” to customers — a dram of the good life even in an unstable economy.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
White has just played 90. b2-b3 when the dram really kicks in.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 9, 2022
Miranda meets three men in a bar — “the Weird Brethren” — who offer her a golden dram, serenade her with “C’Mon Get Happy” like late-stage Judy Garlands, stroke her cheek.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2021
I had been on the other side of the river buying a dram of quicksilver and a pouch of sea salt.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Line of Duty launched in 2012 and went on to become one of the most popular TV drams of the last decade.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
“So you have those thoughts. Whatever their drams and goals are, I’m OK with. The ones we are honoring, we know this is their last.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2019
Cullen, 59, recalls the noise it used to make: the clatter of drams packed with coal being raised from the shaft.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2016
When my turn came, I was placed opposite Depardieu with pints and drams and asked questions in French that were translated into English simultaneously – but barely audibly – via an earpiece.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 1, 2014
Now show how the rebel shakes When he stands up to hear his sentence; Now tell how many drams it takes To honor a jolly new acquaintance.
From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by Curry, S. S. (Samuel Silas)
Saul was profoundly conscious of the yoke; only he had not drammed that his own deliverance could come from such a quarter.
From The Making of the New Testament by Bacon, Benjamin Wisner
For until the third century no one drammed of understanding the "John" of Rev. i.
From The Making of the New Testament by Bacon, Benjamin Wisner
"I don't like to hear about that dramming business," was Val's comment to me later.
From Up in Ardmuirland by Barrett, Michael
Chance, my dear Bob,—chance is ten times a more intoxicating liquor than champagne, and once take to "dramming" with fortune, and you may bid a long adieu to sobriety!
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James
Vocabulary lists containing dram
"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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