dramshop

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Examples

• The tavern of sixty years ago, besides answering the purposes of the modern hotel, was the dramshop of the frontier.

• Another time, but that was when he was barely seventeen years of age, he fought in the dramshop with soldiers on furlough.

• In the dramshop, too, Repa was first in everything: he loved sivuha; and he was quick at fighting when he had drunk anything.

• “To-day each man is struggling to get at the pharaoh, as he might at the keeper of a dramshop,” muttered the adjutant.

• From an unfinished house on the Varvarka, the ground floor of which was a dramshop, came drunken shouts and songs.