grogshop

• “By similar reasoning a superannuated dairymaid with a grogshop is a very different person to the "pretty girl milking her cow" -- sovereign lady of her presence, but of no groggery beside.”

  Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.

• “Frances Willard herself had adopted the imagery, asserting that the grogshop is the Negro’s center of power.”

  Simon & Schuster: LAST CALL

• “In the _New York Voice_ of October 23, 1890, after a tour in the South, where she was told all these things by the "best white people," she said: "The grogshop is the Negro's center of power.”

  The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States

• “Looking in the direction of Murtagh's nod, I saw Fergus, sitting on a piling near the entrance to one grogshop, plainly doing sentry duty.”

  Dragonfly in Amber

• “CHAPTER FIVE The Cafe of the Infidels was like every grogshop Casca had ever been in.”

  The Eternal Mercenary

• “Byron wrote that "nought so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion;" but this dictum is hardly confirmed in the case of Mr. Bence Jones's assailants, who number among them a minister of religion, as well as the irrepressible grogshop-keeper.”

  Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.

• “Consequently the woman got married and died, and her husband having proved objectionable was evicted and the grogshop extinguished.”

  Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.

• “I go for a drive with one of those proscribed by the grogshop-keepers of Castleisland the muzzle of a double-barrelled carbine peeps ominously from the "well" of the car.”

  Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.

• “I refer to the _status_ of the poorest classes in society; to the miserable method of their lives, always wretched, ever burdensome, with but one source of temporary relief within their means, the grogshop, which deepens their misery; to their hopeless degradation and perpetual ignorance, under present social arrangements, whether labor be a little higher for a time or not.”

  Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

• “Teck's had appeared from Mozambique, found him sitting in tatters on the steps of a grogshop, and paid his passage home.”

  Sacrifice

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