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 King, Charles

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

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

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)

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