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  • In the Rue Sainte – Croix-dela-Bretonnerie, twenty young men, bearded and with long hair, entered a dram-shop and emerged a moment later, carrying a horizontal tricolored flag covered with crape, and having at their head three men armed, one with a sword, one with a gun, and the third with a pike.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • It was only quite late in the Rue de Pontoise, that, thanks to the brilliant light thrown from a dram-shop, he decidedly recognized Jean

    Les Miserables 2008

  • The cemetery of Mont – Parnasse, called the Eastern cemetery, succeeded to it, and inherited that famous dram-shop next to the

    Les Miserables 2008

  • A certain good dram-shop keeper of Pantin des Vertus or la

    Les Miserables 2008

  • At intervals the cry of a very young child, which was somewhere in the house, rang through the noise of the dram-shop.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • This elm stood on a corner, and beneath its great pendent branches a small dram-shop desecrated the soil which gave nourishment to the brave old forest tree.

    The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

  • The dram-shop seemed to be full, for he could see the shadows of several men passing to and fro behind the murky windows, and when the door opened to let out a woman, who passed him with a small pitcher in her hand, he saw that many others were left within the building.

    The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

  • The dram-shop was flung open at the sound, and its owner came forth followed by several persons who had entered the place just as Chester left it.

    The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

  • Behind him stood the two men whom he had followed from the dram-shop on the night of his fall, and in a corner of the office sat Jones, the liquor dealer, with two or three persons entirely unknown to Chester.

    The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

  • The two men walked forward, feeling their way along the slippery sidewalk, and conversing earnestly until they reached the dram-shop again.

    The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

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