dram
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It was, after all, an illegal dram shop during Prohibition and the need for secrecy was essential, especially since the queer patrons themselves were breaking the law by openly existing in public.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2025
White has just played 90. b2-b3 when the dram really kicks in.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 9, 2022
In 2017 a Swiss hotel drew notice for selling the world’s most expensive dram to a Chinese tourist.
From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2022
Miranda meets three men in a bar — “the Weird Brethren” — who offer her a golden dram, serenade her with “C’Mon Get Happy” like late-stage Judy Garlands, stroke her cheek.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2021
Yegey poured out another dram around of lifewater.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Line of Duty launched in 2012 and went on to become one of the most popular TV drams of the last decade.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
“So you have those thoughts. Whatever their drams and goals are, I’m OK with. The ones we are honoring, we know this is their last.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2019
Cullen, 59, recalls the noise it used to make: the clatter of drams packed with coal being raised from the shaft.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2016
When my turn came, I was placed opposite Depardieu with pints and drams and asked questions in French that were translated into English simultaneously – but barely audibly – via an earpiece.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 1, 2014
He gives 6 ounces in the first 24 hours, divided into three doses, and afterwards he gives 6 drams three times daily.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
Saul was profoundly conscious of the yoke; only he had not drammed that his own deliverance could come from such a quarter.
From The Making of the New Testament by Benjamin Wisner Bacon
For until the third century no one drammed of understanding the "John" of Rev. i.
From The Making of the New Testament by Benjamin Wisner Bacon
Chance, my dear Bob,—chance is ten times a more intoxicating liquor than champagne, and once take to "dramming" with fortune, and you may bid a long adieu to sobriety!
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Charles James Lever
"I don't like to hear about that dramming business," was Val's comment to me later.
From Up in Ardmuirland by Michael Barrett
Vocabulary lists containing dram
"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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