grog shop

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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 Kingston, William Henry Giles

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

From Where the Trail Divides by Lillibridge, Will

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)

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

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)