Of course I knew you traded there, and it is a good thing to patronize our own church members, but it is a pity we haven't a live grocer in the church.
To get rid of him the grocer would often scribble down his order, and figure the bill as sufficiently repaid by the time saved through getting rid of old P.
The grocer was working on his books, with a pile of bills and statements before him.
The old grocer entered the small order and hesitated.
Whether the old grocer must inevitably fail in business or not the debt David owed him was an honestly contracted debt, and the old man had a right to expect payment; all David's creditors had a right to expect payment.
The old grocer followed him to the door, still protesting his regret, and David turned up the street to do the thing he disliked most of anything in the world--ask his trustees for a further advance on his salary.
A stout grocer in his white apron gave her a little pink biscuit to nibble.
That's why we brought him here to get a cool drink," added Angel, hurriedly, and between us we led the recreant to the little table in the rear of the shop where the grocerhad set out three glasses of ginger beer and a plate of mixed cakes.
The grocerwas a fierce, red-bearded man who kept his wife in a little wooden stall, where she took in the constant flow of wealth extorted from his customers.
Sometimes libel is defined as anything calculated to hurt a man in his business; in which case any new tradesman calling himself a grocerslanders the grocer opposite.
The larger villages also had a potter, a turner, a malster, a weaver, a tanner, and perhaps a mercer or grocer middleman.
He had apprenticed as a grocer and then became a partner in a large ironworks of Darby with a man whose daughter he married.
When John Howard, a grocer who had inherited wealth, but poor health, became a sheriff, he visited many gaols.
He was surprised, too, to notice that the grocer greeted him almost as cordially as he had greeted himself but a few minutes before.
If Dan was astonished at this, he was still more astonished, when David threw down a ten-dollar bill and the grocer pushed it back to him with the remark, that his credit was good for six months.
There were a few idle men hanging about the store, as there almost always were, but none of them appeared to be doing any trading, and the grocer was ready to attend to Dan's wants at once.
He paid seventy-five cents of it for the privilege of entering as one of the contestants in the shooting-match, and the rest he used in purchasing the plug of tobacco for which the grocer had refused to credit him.
David understood what the General meant, but it was plain that the grocer did not, for he looked both bewildered and surprised.
Emmie was startled at the amount of the bills now run up by the butcher and grocer who served the family at Myst Court.
This vile monster, who dispensed death and torture as a grocer serves out his figs, had one raw nerve then which I could prod at pleasure.
His face was bluff and broad and bland, with ruddy cheeks and comfortable little tufts of side-whiskers, which gave him the appearance of a well-to-do grocer of the Rue St Antoine.
Your grocer has foisted Pugsley's Pickles on you, and you have had to taste them, willy-nilly.
Pugsley's father was a village grocer at Hookham Nooton.
If you have accumulated more than you can use, your butcher or grocer will generally buy them of you if they are clean.
The Greek Grocer He had just opened a store on our street and in a Lady Bountiful spirit of helping him out, I went in to do a little trading.
The point is, that we did not talk that way where I came from.
That poor woman could not comprehend how geography and Madrid and the grocer and partnerships made it impossible for Stoffel to write verses.
The Juffrouw in the rear below told the grocer that she was going to move out; for it was just scandalous, simply scandalous the way the Pieterses carried on in their back room; that she couldn't leave anything uncovered.
In one case the grocer has not only a chemist's store but also keeps a circulating library--a charming confusion of trades that enables the visitor to do his shopping within very limited range.
The shops still partake of the dual character that we find in quiet villages, so that the grocer is also the chemist and the butcher is the greengrocer.
One of them, John Edward Thompson, a grocer in a small way of business at Haggart's Cross, had often drawn heavily upon her for financial aid.
The wife of the man who cobbles my shoes or the daughter of the grocer who supplies my sugar is, in the eyes of God, undoubtedly of the same value as my own wife, but they don't interest me.
Haney put his finger to his mouth and whistled to the grocer opposite.
If your Grocer is out of it, insist on his getting it for you.
What's my life--nothing but one terrible, never-stopping fight with thegrocer and the butcher and the landlord .
Hear them hollering for bread, and the grocer stopped to give till the bill is paid.
The grocer and the butcher and all the neighbors were jumping in the air from wonder and joy when they seen how I shined up my house.
Our ex-grocer knew all about Hambletonian Ten and Dexter; but dextrine, dextrose and glucose were out of his class.
A goodly grocer of the Dutch School had been picked out as a husband for Caroline, and now if she went away her prospects were ruined--Ach, Mein Gott!
They would swagger and strut and take themselves seriously just like you or Jack or the grocer down stairs.
Glancing up again, he saw that Joe Wildman, son of the grocerand a boy of his own age, had joined the group of men laughing and jeering at Windy.
On long summer afternoons the grocer and the boy spent hours driving through the streets in a rattling old delivery wagon, the man striving earnestly to make clear to the boy the shadowy ideas of God that were in his mind.
It was inconceivable that the grocer could still be wrapping packages for banker Walker.
Finding the chairs back of the stove in Wildman's grocery deserted, he hurried past the grocer and hid in a corner.
In short, I think the grocer with the stick is a figure we are far more likely to see than the Superman or the Samurai, or the True Model Employer, or the Perfect Fabian Official, or the citizen of the Collectivist State.
Just the man, you will say, and so said I, as I went over the description of the thief as given to the grocer by some neighbours who saw him hanging about the shop.
The purchase struck me as being singular, and I'm sure the grocer was of the same opinion.
My mother is poor and proud, just as the grocer said, and she don't ask any one to give her anything.
A Bristol grocer left 350 ounces of silver plate to be divided among his children.
Two London drapers, a mercer and a grocer were among the forty-seven Knights of the Bath created at the coronation of Elizabeth, queen of Edward the Fourth.
See the punishment of a grocer who in 1404 had turned another of the company out of his house.
