grog-shop

We took up at a rural bar-room, after we had gone a few miles, an intoxicated gentleman who climbed upon the roof among the luggage, and subsequently slipping off without hurting himself, was seen in the distant perspective reeling back to the grog-shop where we had found him.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

The Pandanus or screw-palm, from which sugar bags are made in the Mauritius, also appears, and on coming out of the canal into the Zambesi many are so tall as in the distance to remind us of the steeples of our native land, and make us relish the remark of an old sailor, “that but one thing was wanting to complete the picture, and that was a ‘grog-shop near the church.’”

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

He and another man had gone to the hills, to hew trees for more slabs; the rest to the grog-shop.

Australia Felix 2003

And so, since no more washdirt would be raised from this hole, the party that worked it made off for the nearest grog-shop, to wet their throats to the memory of the dead, and to discuss future plans.

Australia Felix 2003

He did not, however, long retain his ill-gotten wealth: how he got rid of it, I do not know; but I found him two years ago in Singapore, where he kept a small grog-shop, and lived in great wretchedness; and I have since met with him knocking about the streets of Macao, a disgrace to his country in a foreign settlement.

Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson

The curtained door of a grog-shop opened upon him.

McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896 Various

From congress and state legislatures down to grog-shop caucuses and street wranglings, each party keeps up an incessant din about _abuses of power_.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

From congress and state legislatures down to grog-shop caucuses and street wranglings, each party keeps up an incessant din about _abuses of power_.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

Perhaps he might, he was killed one night in a brawl -- in a grog-shop hell!

Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans" Various

Not a grog-shop, or gambling saloon, or dance-hall was to be seen; quite in contrast with the usual disgraceful accompaniments of the ordinary frontier towns.

A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 Frederick S. Dellenbaugh