grog shop

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Where the Trail Divides by Lillibridge, Will

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

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

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

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