grog shop
Example Sentences
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We used to foregather in some comfortable grog shop and discuss.
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Hecht, Ben
This was the terrible story old Cap Nat, as he was commonly called, told to Robert Wallace one night in a grog shop at San Francisco nearly forty years after the events had taken place.
From The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure by Raine, William MacLeod
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
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
