grog shop

Example Sentences

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Chōbei first learned of the affair by being dragged from the grog shop to the guardhouse of the Adzumabashi.

From The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) by De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin)

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

The keeper of the famous grog shop there, who died about that time, left a fortune of nearly one hundred thousand dollars.

From Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography by Cuyler, Theodore Ledyard

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