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 Sharp Corner was a second-class groggery and boarding house, patronized almost entirely by the poorest and most shiftless class of trackmen.
From Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent by Chapman, Allen
As the tale runs, the Hall's Gulch miners were resolved either not to have a groggery or to limit the number of such places, and when this ruffian set one up he was "forewarned."
From A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
And almost in the shadow of the City Hall nestled Bath-House John's groggery.
From Fanny Herself by Ferber, Edna
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 McGovern, John
As the sun ran for the west, rowdy songs started up in the taverns and groggeries.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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
It lurks in the lowest groggeries that curse community—is tolerated in some of the most fashionable hotels.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by Judson, L. Carroll
They declare that they speak the truth, and the news of dog-politics lately vouchsafed to me in groggeries incline me to believe—but I won't.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard
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 Finnemore, Joseph
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