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Example sentences for "country store"

  • Yet I was the daughter of a bankrupt farmer, and my husband was clerk in a country store.

  • I came in to-day on a little business of my own, and also to select some goods for a country store in which I am employed.

  • Perhaps it will be," I said, "but I'd rather keep a country store than do anything.

  • It was many a day, however, before we broke through Annie Pore's reserve and learned that she was of English parentage, that her mother had recently died and her father had a country store in a lonesome little settlement on the river.

  • Nobody at Price's Landing ever has known what brought Mr. Pore to keeping a country store in a little Virginia village.

  • I fancy that was it," he laughed, "but why should an Oxford graduate keep a country store for a livelihood?

  • It was a great time, that happy week--for let it be remembered that for a whole year I had been imprisoned in a country store.

  • It was considered a desirable situation by my parents, and, overlooking my mechanical aptitudes, they accepted it at once, and at the age of fifteen I found myself installed in a country store.

  • Between lessons he acted as clerk in a country store.

  • In order to support himself while acquiring his education, he worked as a farm hand, a clerk in a country store, an editor of a country newspaper, and finally as a lawyer.

  • After securing an ordinary education in the public schools of Maine, he began his business career in a country store, and later became manager of the Western Union telegraph office of Augusta, Maine.

  • So much for the unsophisticated country lad who had pluck and energy enough to strike out upon the world, and aim for something better than a clerkship in a country store.

  • Order in a country store seems to be impossible.

  • Why should a man whose brother had recently died in England feel a necessity of taking stock in a country store?

  • We were passing through a settlement where there was the usual post-office, country store, church and schoolhouse, with a few houses straggling around, when a young man ran out into the road and called desperately to Father to stop.

  • My first venture was made as a clerk in a country store at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where all things were sold, including dry goods, and there I remained for four years.

  • At thirteen, he had become a clerk in a country store, at a salary of thirty dollars a year.

  • Like most boys, I thought there was no other place like a city for success, and I finally sold my country store when I was still very young, and came to New York.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    attack him; bore away; clear liquid; close the; contrite and humble spirit; country church; country clergyman; country code; country districts; country doctor; country gentleman; country home; country like; country parish; country people; country places; country road; country school; down yonder; first began; great house; intensive cultivation; parents were; thing before; tis not; unto others