Customer

Examples

• That 'ere queer customer, and the melan-cholly chap with the black hair. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• This remark he offers like a most respectable tradesman anxious to execute an order neatly and to the perfect satisfaction of his customer. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It ain't that I object to being passed over for a stranger, though I regard the stranger as a more than doubtful customer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• One day Chinnock came to me and said: 'I have a new customer. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Probably he handed it to some sailor customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• There happened to be no customer in the shop but Jacques Three, of the restless fingers and the croaking voice. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• You're a soft customer, you are; we've got it all out o' you, anyhow,' thought Mr. Weller, as Job walked away. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Once again he went to the customer's meter to look around, when a small piece of thick wire on the floor caught his eye. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Some of them, perhaps, may sometimes decoy a weak customer to buy what he has no occasion for. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Why, I generally say customer myself, replies Mr. Snagsby. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mr. Snagsby addresses an explanatory cough to Mrs. Snagsby, as who should say, My dear, a customer! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• A customer wanted some special barrels with nine bores in a single piece of steel. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Daisy, who was fond of going about peddling kisses, lost her best customer and became bankrupt. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Rome will be a ugly customer to you, if you don't. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Hence, after supplying an all-night customer whose lamps were on one side of the circuits, the company might be found to owe him some thing substantial in the morning. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It started, as we have said, on September 4, 1882, supplying about four hundred lights to a comparatively small number of customers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• We had customers in all the little towns in south-west Wisconsin, south-east Minnesota and north-east Iowa. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• So well had the work been planned and executed, however, that nothing happened to hinder the continuous working of the station and the supply of light to customers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Think of what I have to provide for calling customers, my dear! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Each tradesman or artificer derives his subsistence from the employment, not of one, but of a hundred or a thousand different customers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Seeing the need for some means of increasing the demand for honey, a small honey business was started to dispose of the product of customers who had no market. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I do; especially when I've customers like you to deal with. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman, is not that of his corporation, but that of his customers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It was a blessing for a commerce-loving country to be overrun by such an army of customers: and to have such creditable warriors to feed. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• A particular banker lends among his customers his own promissory notes, to the extent, we shall suppose, of a hundred thousand pounds. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In requiring frequent and regular repayments from all their customers, the banking companies of Scotland had probably this advantage in view. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He cannot be their merchant, nor they his customers; and they are all of them thus mutually less serviceable to one another. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The moment Madame Defarge took up the rose, the customers ceased talking, and began gradually to drop out of the wine-shop. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Morgan, whose firm was one of the first customers, expressed to Mr. Edison some doubt as to the accuracy of the meter. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And so much time was saved on this one application that customers soon began applying it to other kinds of work in their offices. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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