groggeries
- plural of groggery.
Example Sentences
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As the sun ran for the west, rowdy songs started up in the taverns and groggeries.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
One has to ask at grocers' shops, groggeries, market-stalls, Chinese restaurants; interview corner cobblers, ragpickers, gutter children.
From Balcony Stories by King, Grace E.
Here were located a number of factories and mills, with several tenement houses and low groggeries between.
From The Rover Boys on the River The Search for the Missing Houseboat by Stratemeyer, Edward
In out-of-the-way places, low groggeries, restaurants, and saloons; in gambling hells and dance houses, the master, preceded by Mliss, came and went.
From Selected Stories of Bret Harte by Harte, Bret
The narrow crooked streets of the Five Points were lit with gas that shone dimly through the grimy panes of the lamp posts or through the open doors of groggeries and fetid shops.
From Sleeping Fires: a Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
