Grocer

Examples

• Nothing would serve Maggy but that they must stop at a grocer's window, short of their destination, for her to show her learning. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• If all the food we eat were utilized for energy, the housewife could cook less, and the housefather could save money on grocer's and butcher's bills. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• What between the buryin ground, the grocer's, the waggon-stables, and the paunch trade, the Marshalsea flies gets very large. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Saint Antoine slept, the Defarges slept: even The Vengeance slept with her starved grocer, and the drum was at rest. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Should you have liked your sister to have been noticed by a grocer's assistant for doing so? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Alvanly used to rail at Meyler for this, as might naturally be expected, calling him a d----d methodistical grocer, &c. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• But, Fanny, you will make a point of cutting this grocer, I hope? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• In a small sea-port town, a little grocer will make forty or fifty per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• We still talk about humanity as if it were some strange and mystical creature which could not possibly be composed of the grocer, the street-car conductor and our aunts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It was the lad who had peached upon him about the grocer's cart; but he bore little malice, not at least towards the young and small. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The self-raising flour, so widely advertised by grocers, is flour in which these ingredients or their equivalent have been mixed by the manufacturer. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• As the essential ingredients of the best baking powder are baking soda and cream of tartar we need only be careful in buying of honest grocers or druggists who will guarantee their purity. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Nobody nowadays had Colonial houses except the millionaire grocers of the suburbs. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I vote for cutting all the grocers and valets who intrude themselves into good society. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• For family or grocers’ use this will prove even more serviceable than some of the high-priced patent refrigerators. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• It is those d-mn grocers, the Mitchels, said Alvanly, who have taught you to dine at these hours! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I do not recollect Mitchel, retorted Alvanly; but I believe there were a good many grocers admitted at that time. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

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