But the imagination which could be terrified by the rattle of that planking on the old bridge was quite equal to finding satisfaction in "playing store" and in seeing customers where there were none.
Pepsy was ready enough to defer to the master mind, the more so because this approach of their first probable customers gave her a kind of stage fright.
The operator has no knowledge of the number of customers he will have when he displays his products, nor does he know the whims of the individuals who may patronize his market that day.
This is a rather difficult condition for the operator to maintain consistently, but it is fundamental in securing customers and in keeping them.
Public utilities are organized to furnish electric service and it will be found that they are ready to assist customers in securing the most satisfactory use of electricity.
The family should be courteous in answering questions and showing the prospectivecustomers about.
Customers do not relish having their purses or pockets picked while in stores, and when it does happen to a customer, he or she usually remains away from that store in the future.
Such customers may visit the store, make a purchase, and have the amount of same charged to their account.
He desires to know if his sales clerks are honest and reliable, and courteous to customers during his absence from the place of business.
They were to make butter, the very best butter they could, and Mrs. Robbins would get customers for them back at the Cove in Long Island.
He had kept his old customers and won new ones in addition.
Apollonius wrote at once to the customers and then went to his brother's creditors.
He had customers who were worth their thousands; ladies whose fingers never touched dish-water; ladies who would n't buy a glove of anybody else if they went bare-handed to the grave.
We have no call for them; our customers prefer kid.
The one merit of Sanguinetti's before the fire was the fact that all the regular customers were unaffected and natural.
Miss Angie Nixon, who had never been nearer to Paris than Brattleboro, Vermont, said to her customers that from what she had seen of the new tenant's outfit, she was undoubtedly from the Tooleries.
Ebenezer says there's so many customers in his place waitin' to be next with the paper that he ain't hardly got room to hone up his razors after Wednesday's work.
By this time several other customers had joined the Marshal.
Customers dropped in by ones and twos till at length all the other stalls were filled, everybody instinctively avoiding the stall where a tablecloth gleamed its white warning.
He is trying to keep those customers one year after another.
He has customers that do come back after the second package of nuts.
For a number of years he had kept a public house; and as his place was the only one of this kind for many miles around, and as it fronted on a much-traveled county road, he had many customers at his bar and guests in his tavern.
He became known as the one hotel keeper in all that region who did not furnish his customers strong liquors.
Now this innkeeper used to rob the travellers: then he used to kill them, cut them in pieces, and, after having cooked them, he gave their flesh to his customers to eat.
But this was not all, for, bad as it is, one might let it pass, as there are so many others who do likewise, cheating their customers right and left.
Besides, there are one or two awkward customersamong them, such as the crow, for instance, and the rook and the jackdaw, who all belong to the same family.
The willow-tree became more and more decayed and the hole filled with earth and more customers arrived.
Insomuch, that if one of our shippes should go thither, it would be for the customers profit 4000 ducats at least, whereas if we should not trade thither, he should lose so much.
Such fellows, when the evil spirit was upon them, would be ugly customers to deal with.
The method of cheating their customers by the beer-sellers was, we are told, exactly the contrary plan followed by our modern publicans.
Brazil nuts on a cold black Sunday morning are not exhilarating, but the costermonger found many customers who bought his nuts, and ate them, merely because they had nothing better to do.
The next observed that the word 'makes' might as well be omitted, because his customers would not care who made the hats.
As was generally the case, the customers had been mastered by the landlord.
Long before the stated hour the parlour of the Black Eagle could not hold all the customers that poured in, anxious to secure a foremost place for the proceedings.
Felix adopted a method of stimulating customers to drink, which would not have been becoming in the host.
Herr Merckel ordered two bottles, to demonstrate to his customers that he did not expect any of them to go shares in a bottle.
Herr Merckel crammed bottles of schnaps into as many pockets as he could catch hold of, as his customers hurried out.
During the old commercial days there had been a great many slippery customers who had managed to make their living in very questionable ways.
It was now the time of evening at which the labouring men who formed the greater part of Mrs Malpas's customers finished their quarts and went home to bed.
Nobody took much notice of him, for most of the men who had gathered there were regular customers who came in every night.
The light failed, but no lamp was lit in the taproom, and one by one the customers bade the landlord good-night and stole away like shadows.
On the other hand he did renew his travelling acquaintance with Mick Connor, who remained one of the bestcustomers of the Pound House.
They were very angry, of course, but in those days Rembrandt was at the height of his career and he did not have to concern himself about how his customers felt.
His customers fell off and many troubles overwhelmed him.
Installed in the post-office chair, behind the railing that enclosed the sanctum of pigeon-holes, she amused herself by watching the customers while she waited for the mail-train.
I would cut that lamb, but for such customers as you and your belle maman there is nothing I would not do.
One brokerage house, with whose operations the writer has considerable acquaintance, makes a practice of advising its more conservative customers to do this.
Banks frequently do not charge their regular customers as much as the quoted rates.
The seller finds his customers unwilling to buy for cash, in amounts as great as before.
If a broker who has borrowed largely from the banks finds his customers turning to the bear side of the market, he has an excess of funds.
A very substantial part of them will represent exchange sold to customers to make payments in New York.
Their country customerswould pay 6% or more for that money in some cases, but the banks dare not tie up more of their assets in non-liquid local paper.
Adam Smith thought that a bank could safely lend to its customers only so much as they would otherwise keep by them in the form of money.
None the less, this house allows its customers to check upon it, and checks drawn on it perform all the functions of checks drawn on banks which keep a cash reserve.
It is the practice of private bankers connected with the stock exchanges, and the practice of brokers, who are, for many purposes, bankers, especially those who allow their customers to check on their accounts.
These will be of three kinds: (a) drafts sold, especially by country banks, to their customers who need to make payments in other cities.
In smaller places, relationships between banks and customers are much more personal, and indeed, even in larger cities, regular business houses have particularly intimate relations with special banks.
They were ugly, and exacted the uttermost farthing from their customers and their workpeople.
Esther and the children--the landlord was a widower--slept in the coffee-room upon planks laid across the tops of the high backs of the benches where the customers mealed.
There was no parlour for special customers at the back, and the public bar was inconveniently crowded by a dozen people.
There was a little mahogany what-not on the counter, and Esther served her customers between the little shelves.
But as his customers multiplied he found that he could not ask them all upstairs; it attracted more attention than to take the money quietly across the bar.
But they don't like old waiters; there's always a lot of young Germans about, and customers said I smelt bad.
Esther said that William could attend to no more customers that day.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "customers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
