groggery
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groggeries
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Origin of groggery
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Folks said the Fire started in a low groggery near the Whitehall Slip.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
The groggery was filled with men when he arrived, and in the number he found safety.
From Down the Slope by James Otis
The second man was Levin Dennis, hardly able to stand, and he sat down on the groggery step, smiling up idiotically.
From The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times by George Alfred Townsend
Dick Callery, who keeps a groggery at No. 126 Callowhill street, Philadelphia, stated he was aware of Deegan's transactions.
From Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After by Henry Bascom Smith
I wanted to breathe a bit of fresh air, I wanted to shut out from my mind the sights and sounds and smells of the groggery, the reek and the smut and the evil faces.
From The Blood Ship by Norman Springer
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 Grace E. King
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 Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Of the groggeries of Limerick and of the poison vended in them, I will forbear to discourse, for my business just now is with the country rather than with the town.
From Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Bernard H. Becker
Hence the first questions in reform are not: How many groggeries are there in my parish?
From The Warriors by Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay
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