drinkin'-den

Updated: June 19, 2025

But it kep' holt of Dorlesky: it bound her tight to her uncle, while he run through with what little property she had; while he sunk lower and lower, until at last he needed the very necessaries of life; and then he bound her out to work, to a woman who kep' a drinkin'-den, and the lowest, most degraded hant of vice.

Marietta Holley - Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician