grog shop

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Chōbei first learned of the affair by being dragged from the grog shop to the guardhouse of the Adzumabashi.

From The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) by De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin)

In the course of the winter a Yankee adventurer opened a "grog shop," within a short distance of the dep�t, who appeared to have no objection to a beaver's skin in exchange for his commodities.

From Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I. by M'lean, John

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 King, Charles

We used to foregather in some comfortable grog shop and discuss.

From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Hecht, Ben

Pete likewise it was who first entered the grog shop of Red Jenkins.

From Where the Trail Divides by Lillibridge, Will