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  • There are a number of "groggeries," stores, and other habitations, at the base of the bluffs, for the accommodation of flat-boatmen, which form a distinct town, and the place is called, in contradistinction to the city above, Natchez-under-the-hill.

    A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America

  • I could not help thinking, as I saw many of the newly-arrived emigrants saunter helplessly into the groggeries, that, after spending their money, they would remain at New York, and help to swell the numbers of this class.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • If he be in health, and have a few dollars in his pocket, he becomes the instantaneous prey of emigrant runners, sharpers, and keepers of groggeries; but of this more will be said hereafter.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • Got to figure a few river drivers use the time between the end of cutting and the start of the drive to visit the groggeries and whorehouses.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

  • The groggeries in the Devil's Half Acre reeked of rum and the molasses from which it was made.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

  • Got to figure a few river drivers use the time between the end of cutting and the start of the drive to visit the groggeries and whorehouses.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

  • The groggeries in the Devil's Half Acre reeked of rum and the molasses from which it was made.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

  • None but liquor dealers or men who desire to keep low groggeries are excluded.

    Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Harry A. Lewis

  • The parson had deemed the time ripe for a war on the groggeries of the Flats, with the outcome that most bar-rooms of the town, including that of the Tuscarora House, were found to be violating the Sunday closing law.

    The Henchman Mark Lee Luther

  • I can destroy all groggeries and shops where soldiers get liquor just as we would in St. Louis.

    Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

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