grog shop
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We used to foregather in some comfortable grog shop and discuss.
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht
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 William MacLeod Raine
ChÅbei 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 James S. (James Seguin) De Benneville
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 William Henry Giles Kingston
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 Henry Lawson
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