grog shop
Example Sentences
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Exit the Canteen: Re-enter the grog shop, the hell and the hog ranch.
From A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade by Charles King
We used to foregather in some comfortable grog shop and discuss.
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht
Instead of concocting some pretext to carry off Sukébei, or one, or all, of his apprentices to the neighbouring street and a grog shop, his inexperience and diffidence had carried him away still thirsty.
From Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 by James S. (James Seguin) De Benneville
The keeper of the famous grog shop there, who died about that time, left a fortune of nearly one hundred thousand dollars.
From Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography by Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
We found doing this was no hardship, and infinitely preferred sleeping by our camp-fire with the canopy of heaven above us, to taking up our quarters in a shepherd’s hut or grog shop.
From Adventures in Australia by William Henry Giles Kingston
