grog shop

Example Sentences

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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)

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

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 De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin)

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

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

The reader may doubt that a "sly grog shop" could openly carry on business on a main Government road along which mounted troopers were continually passing.

From On the Track by Lawson, Henry