Bookseller
['bʊkselə(r)] or ['bʊksɛlɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who sells books.
Inputed by Elliot
Examples
- Why the bookseller that sold me the Wonderful Museum--where's the Wonderful Museum? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mr. Hale went out to his bookseller's, and to call on a friend or two. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Miret, the short-tempered and kind-hearted bookseller, who had so kindly found me a seat that eventful night in the park. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I know it was the fourth wollume, that the bookseller read it to me out of. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- At the time I established myself in Pennsylvania, there was not a good bookseller's shop in any of the colonies to the southward of Boston. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Go to the bookseller's shop. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- While I lodged in _Little Britain_, I made acquaintance with one Wilcox, a bookseller, whose shop was next door. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one, which I was careful to return soon and clean. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- What a happy day for booksellers, music-sellers, and print-shops! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- New books, for instance, were dictated to rows of copyists in the factories of the booksellers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Edited by Bertram