grog shop

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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

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

From Where the Trail Divides by Lillibridge, Will

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

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

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