grog-shops

Bismarck, an ugly settlement where the Northern Pacific railroad stopped, was about four miles down on the east bank; I took a prowl through it, and thanked God I wasn't staying there, for while it was bustling enough and like to spread and prosper, it was still rough and ready, with streets awash with mud and slush, touts and roughs and sharps abounding, and the grog-shops and whore-houses open day and night.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

Licence-pickings, boys, and tips from new grog-shops, and the blasted farce of the Commissariat!

Australia Felix 2003

It was very quiet — no grog-shops or saloons-of-entertainment in this neighbourhood, thank goodness! — and the hour was still too early for drunken roisterers to come reeling home.

Australia Felix 2003

Hell on Wheels was “a village of a few variety stores and shops, and many grog-shops; by day disgusting, by night dangerous; almost everybody dirty, many filthy, and with the marks of lowest vice; averaging a murder a day; gambling and drinking, hurdy-gurdy dancing and the vilest of sexual commerce the chief business and pastime of the hours.”

Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000

Hell on Wheels was “a village of a few variety stores and shops, and many grog-shops; by day disgusting, by night dangerous; almost everybody dirty, many filthy, and with the marks of lowest vice; averaging a murder a day; gambling and drinking, hurdy-gurdy dancing and the vilest of sexual commerce the chief business and pastime of the hours.”

Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000

Bismarck, an ugly settlement where the Northern Pacific railroad stopped, was about four miles down on the east bank; I took a prowl through it, and thanked God I wasn't staying there, for while it was bustling enough and like to spread and prosper, it was still rough and ready, with streets awash with mud and slush, touts and roughs and sharps abounding, and the grog-shops and whore-houses open day and night.

Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

Bismarck, an ugly settlement where the Northern Pacific railroad stopped, was about four miles down on the east bank; I took a prowl through it, and thanked God I wasn't staying there, for while it was bustling enough and like to spread and prosper, it was still rough and ready, with streets awash with mud and slush, touts and roughs and sharps abounding, and the grog-shops and whore-houses open day and night.

Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

Another street appeared to be all grog-shops but for the ominous exception of an undertaker.

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

In the main street I observed six grog-shops, side by side, actually shoulder to shoulder, cheek by jowl.

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

These were arrested in grog-shops, boarding-houses, under the pavements, and in every part of the city.

The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details I. Windslow Ayer