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Example sentences for "groggery"

Lexicographically close words:
grocers; grocery; groceryman; grog; groggeries; groggily; groggy; groin; groined; groining
  1. 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.

  2. No sooner had she a groggery "to her fortune" than her hand was sought by a legion of admirers.

  3. We'll have to go from one groggery to another, and then try the dance houses, unless they pass the word in time.

  4. The idea of a Madonna in a groggery of the Five Points was more amusing than the fracas just over.

  5. He made no resistance as Holt and Lacey took him by his arms and supported him out of the groggery and out of the Five Points to a waiting hack; Madeleine and the detectives forming a body-guard in the rear.

  6. And he stepped into the nearest groggery and purchased a pint or more with the money an old friend had given him.

  7. The Colonel saw this man as he was coming out of a low groggery arm in arm with negroes.

  8. The groggery was filled with men when he arrived, and in the number he found safety.

  9. When evening came Skip did not wait to see if Fred came out; but hurried off to the groggery where he was made happy by Billings' extreme friendliness.

  10. The news that two miners and a boy had probably been killed spread through the village rapidly, and Cale Billings was in Taylor's groggery when one of the late rioters brought the intelligence.

  11. Not until Taylor's groggery was near at hand did he slacken speed, and then, assuming as best he could an air of composure, he opened the door cautiously to peep in.

  12. The leader of the regulators lounged carelessly toward the door until satisfied no one was paying any particular attention to him, when he stepped briskly out, and walked rapidly to a groggery situated at the farther end of the town.

  13. When Eddie came home he went for his father, and found him in Flannigan's groggery with several others who were unfortunates like himself.

  14. I second the motion," said Michael Maloney, the keeper of a low groggery in the purlieus of the town.

  15. When he arrived at the groggery Old Joe had just opened up, and was taking his morning drink, which his trembling hand indicated he sadly needed.

  16. Gazing back, as I hastened, I saw her still there, leaning against the sheet-iron of the groggery and ostensibly weeping.

  17. He had scarcely spoken, when three men were seen to bar the way, two of them drunk, the third ugly with drink, emerging from a groggery that stood across the street from the tavern, where further beverage had been denied them.

  18. Milburn saw all this happen in a minute of time, and his eye, looking for something to defend himself, dropped on the brick pier under the groggery steps, where Levin Dennis sat, stupefied by the scene.

  19. This loft over a former groggery is no place for you: the news will spread from Chincoteague to Arlington.

  20. The second man was Levin Dennis, hardly able to stand, and he sat down on the groggery step, smiling up idiotically.

  21. He led the way to the groggery and applied his eye to a slit in the oiled paper, while Dick and Tom stood on either side.

  22. He followed the man carelessly so as to avoid suspicion, and presently saw him go into a low groggery down the street.

  23. The low groggery in Water street where poor Sinclair made his temporary home, was extensively known as the 'All Night House,' from the fact of its being kept open night and day.

  24. The lower room was occupied as a groggery and dance-hall, and was several feet below the level of the street.


  25. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "groggery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.