druggery

Zip-bang-gasoline-smoke! and I was fished out, laid tenderly on the back seat and rushed to a druggery.

Letters of a Dakota Divorcee Jane Burr

He took me into his druggery, unwrapped the bandage, and examined my wound.

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

At the sign of the "Three Martyrs" Mr. Levy is seen, in his fashionable coat, and a massive chain falling over his tight waistcoat, registering the names of his grotesque customers, ticketing their little packages, and advancing each a shilling or two, which they will soon spend at the opposite druggery.

An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith

'He was a small boy tempted by a varnished widow, with pounds of barley sugar in her pockets; -- and she already serving as a test-vessel or mortar for awful combinations in druggery!

One of Our Conquerors — Complete George Meredith 1868

'He was a small boy tempted by a varnished widow, with pounds of barley sugar in her pockets; -- and she already serving as a test-vessel or mortar for awful combinations in druggery!

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

'He was a small boy tempted by a varnished widow, with pounds of barley sugar in her pockets; -- and she already serving as a test-vessel or mortar for awful combinations in druggery!

One of Our Conquerors — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

It's about the day-in-day-out druggery of covering a bureaucracy or agency, getting to know people, meeting them for beers, saving their home numbers, etc.

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