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Updated: May 16, 2025
If you get once moored, stem and stern, in old Barnes's grog-shop, with a coal fire ahead and the bar under your lee, you won't see daylight for three weeks! ``No! says Tom, ``I'm going to knock off grog and go and board at the Home, and see if they won't ship me for a deacon! ``And I, says Bill, ``am going to buy a quadrant and ship for navigator of a Hingham packet!
The painter was cast off, and they pulled towards the floating grog-shop. The tempter received them with a hearty salute. "Cheap spirits an' cheap baccy!" said John Gunter, as he sat on the rail of the Coper drinking the one and smoking the other, "that's what I likes, an' plenty of both."
I remembered I had seen him slinking away during the quarrel, in a half prance, half shuffle, and trying very hard not to look scared. He was no stranger to the port, it seems, and in his distress was able to make tracks straight for Mariani's billiard-room and grog-shop near the bazaar.
"But I'm sure you've got no occasion," he said, "to blackguard the Coper, for you haven't bin to visit her much." "No, thank God, I have not," said Luke earnestly, "yet I've bin aboard often enough to wish I had never bin there at all. It's not that, mates, that makes me so hard on the Coper, but it was through the accursed drink got aboard o' that floatin' grog-shop that I lost my best friend."
If you get once moored, stem and stern, in old B 's grog-shop, with a coal fire ahead and the bar under your lee, you won't see daylight for three weeks!" "No!" says Tom, "I'm going to knock off grog, and go and board at the Home, and see if they won't ship me for a deacon!" "And I," says Bill, "am going to buy a quadrant and ship for navigator of a Hingham packet!"
Onward he went with a steady pace, fortifying his mind all the while with arguments against drinking, and yet just ready at every moment to yield the contest he was waging against habit and desire. At last the grog-shop was in sight, and in a few minutes he was almost at the door. "Hurrah!
When the king of society is announced, the young Duc de la Tour-Prends-Garde, whose one ancestor was at the battle of the bridge, and who is just now introducing a new style in trousers, Amedee could not suspect that the favorite amusement of this fashionable rake consisted in drinking in the morning upon an empty stomach, with his coachman, at a grog-shop on the corner.
"Yes, I have; and, God helping me, I mean to stick by them!" "I would have gone to the meeting myself," said Miles thoughtfully, "if I had been asked." "Strange," returned Armstrong, "that Sergeant Hardy said to me he thought of asking you to accompany us, but had an idea that you wouldn't care to go. Now, just look at that lot there beside the grog-shop door.
He it was who had given a shrill shout, and as I ran across a piece of waste ground to see what was the matter, I saw him crouching on the ground, while over him stood a big bully, whom I had before seen at the door of a low grog-shop; making a vicious cut at the "nigger" with a heavy stock-whip.
"It is the nature of the water," l said, and calling back: "Strick, what's that grog-shop doing so close to the road? It's a temptation to any one's servants." "Dun'no," said a sleepy voice in the doolie. "This is Kennedy's district. 'Twasn't here in my time." "Truly the water smells bad," Adam went on. "I smelt it, but I did not get the mynah even for six annas.
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