Shopkeepers
[ʃɔp,ki:pəz]
Examples
- The remembrance of such a fact surely becomes a nation of shopkeepers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The prejudices of some political writers against shopkeepers and tradesmen are altogether without foundation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Superior is getting to be shopkeepers' slang. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mr. Bumble stopped not to converse with the small shopkeepers and others who spoke to him, deferentially, as he passed along. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- And have we not already condemned that State in which the same persons are warriors as well as shopkeepers? Plato. The Republic.
- It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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