Butchers

Examples

• Grocery goods, for example, are generally much cheaper; bread and butchers' meat frequently as cheap. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• What I have said as to the temporary preservation of fish by fishmongers applies equally to the preservation of meat and fowls by butchers and poulterers. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• How came those stinking butchers' candles in your room? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The doctors were working with their sleeves up to their shoulders and were red as butchers. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I am attended by a select body of our boys; the butcher, by two other butchers, a young publican, and a sweep. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• In all towns-corporate, all persons are free to sell butchers' meat upon any lawful day of the week. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The prices of bread and butchers' meat are generally the same, or very nearly the same, through the greater part of the united kingdom. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I'm sure you don't want me to admire butchers and bakers, and candlestick-makers, do you, mamma? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Coach-building is a trade all the same, and I think a much more useless one than that of butchers or bakers. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

Typist: Rex