groggery
Americannoun
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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
Some are occupied as dwelling-places, and some are divided into a sort of store or groggery and living and sleeping rooms.
From Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe
The denizens of that groggery would have given no evidence against us—they are themselves too deeply implicated.
From Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Norman Springer
Perhaps at the card-table in the groggery across the street is a man who has come to your town to break into your employer's store!
From The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by John McGovern
From the sidewalk in front of his groggery, "Bath House John" can see the City Hall.
From Buttered Side Down: Stories by Edna Ferber
As the sun ran for the west, rowdy songs started up in the taverns and groggeries.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
With more than the necessary amount of vigor he declared himself innocent of the business and dropped remarks relative to groggeries that would have delighted the ear of a temperance lecturer.
From The Daughter of a Republican by Bernie Babcock
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 Edward Stratemeyer
They declare that they speak the truth, and the news of dog politics lately vouchsafed to me in groggeries inclines me to believe, but I won't.
From American Notes by Rudyard Kipling
For square after square, tenement houses, tall, grimy, and repulsive, alternated with groggeries, flaunting, flashy, and reeking with iniquity.
From Bert Lloyd's Boyhood A Story from Nova Scotia by Joseph Finnemore
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