He married Virginie, who afterwards went into business as a dealer in groceries and sweetmeats in the shop previously occupied by Gervaise Coupeau.
When the Coupeaus gave way to drink, Lantier, who had again established friendly relations, suggested that Virginie should take the Coupeaus' shop and buy a stock of groceries and sweetmeats with a legacy she had received from an aunt.
The exchange for the fox skin was enough to buy all the groceries and dry goods they needed.
The others went into a provision merchant's near by, where the groceries were purchased and packed into the waggon.
Fortunately, there were nogroceries to buy, for the things they had obtained with their Christmas Club money would be more than sufficient for the ensuing week.
Some of these passed by carrying heavy loads of groceries in baskets, and others with wooden trays full of joints of meat.
I stewed and fretted all the way to the store and when I got there I found that another big order of groceries and canned goods had been delivered to the eatin' house while I was gone.
You ask, "If groceries and articles of household consumption are dear or cheap?
Why people bought groceries when they could afford peppermints Kate didn’t know.
When the butter was sold the shopping came, and when all the necessary groceries and supplies had been laid in, a stroll through the market-place, where peppermints striped and coloured like shells were to be got.
To obtain an order for groceries or teas and coffees.
In the fall write a letter, addressing the farmers' wives, saying that, as winter is at hand, it would be well for them to put in a supply of groceries when prices are reasonable.
Answer (6) telling why you think you could sell groceries although you have had no experience.
Send up the groceries in that slop, she'd send them down again.
They soldgroceries in Babylon; Deacon Roberts says so.
LANE goes to the dumb-waiter, whistles up the tube, puts the basket of groceries on the shelf of the dumb-waiter, pulls rope and sends waiter up.
And why should the first cost of the groceries be reckoned, when we stop to think that they were involuntarily furnished by the depraved husband and father.
The method by which our wives in America are knocking the church debt silly, by working up their husbands' groceries into "angel food" and selling them below actual cost, is deserving of the attention of our national financiers.
The claimant was constantly assured that his claim was a good one and on these autograph letters written with a type-writer, the war-born veteran with a concussed vertebra bought groceries and secured the funds to pay his assessments.
I may not be well educated, but I am high strung till you can't rest Groceries are just as high in Washington as they are in Philadelphia.
The water of Waukesha does not appear to taste of any mineral, although an analysis shows the presence of several kinds of groceries in solution.
This festival is an open market where the ladies trade the groceries of their husbands to other ladies' husbands, and everybody has a "perfectly lovely time.
The demonetization of groceries is doing as much toward the general wiggly palsy of trade as anything I know of.
He sat right down flat, and his basket bounced off his arm, and a lot ofgroceries spilled out of it.
They said they could, and they were just starting to get their dolls when along came a boy with a basket of groceries on his arm.
The boy had often called with groceries before, and Rose and Vi knew him.
It took time and a great deal of discussion to make so many important purchases, but finally the grocerieswere all ordered.
We'll be buying our own groceries by this time tomorrow with the money we make selling lemonade.
They had not quite escaped the breakfast foods after all, because each consignment of groceries was enriched by several sample packages; enough altogether, the girls declared joyously, to provide a great many noon luncheons.
Mother says it's too expensive having all her groceries carried off.
To my surprise, I learned that the small groceries where I had bought in the morning were sold out.
That was why we were permitted to go down and buy out the little groceries in the working-class neighbourhoods.
It was not until we went across the city and down into the working-class quarter south of Market Street that we found small corner groceries that had not yet sold out.
There are literary green-groceries at every corner, which will buy anything, from a button-pear to a pine-apple.
Later on Rachel went to work in the field making a crop with her brother, turning it over to the owner of the land for groceries and other supplies and when the cotton was weighed "de white folks taken out part of our half.
All these were sent down the river to Bristol, whence the Bewdley dealers received, in return, imported groceries and other commodities for distribution throughout Wales and Lancashire.
Brought a two months' supply of groceries with us, as there was no town nearer than Keya Paha, thirty miles east at the mouth of the river; there in fact, was about the nearest house.
Indeed, it was few groceries we used; I have often made pies out of flour and water and green grapes without any sugar; and we thought them quite a treat.
Chick peas are found in the Italian groceries or macaroni stores.
When these colorings are not suitable, the so-called aEurooefruit colorsaEuro for sale at the groceries may be used.
It can be bought at groceries or drug stores at from 25 cts.
She was strong, in that slow old Russian lady way, strong enough to grunt ten sacks of groceries in a bundle-buggy up the stairs to the apartment.
I myself have handled practically every staple that makes up the very great proportion of merchandising activity, whereas my successors of to-day, as well as their competitors, deal only in groceries and kindred lines.
Newmark & Company's store, to be loaded with seventy to seventy-five tons of groceries and provisions for troops in the Territory.
Edgar, about thirty-one years ago, brought a stock of groceries and crockery to Santa Ana and deposited the contents of his cases in the same location, and on the same shelves, from which he still caters to his neighbors.
These commodities were sold to get the few groceries and small necessities which they could not well do without.
There were eggs, or came to be, but while used more or less, they, too, had to go toward getting such few groceries as could be afforded.
As for the few groceries which they might ordinarily have used, they dispensed even with them for the most part.
Jones, who keeps a corner grocery store, hasn't enough money to buy groceries because his customers don't pay him until the end of the month.
But do you suppose White and Company would let him have those groceries if it were not for insurance?
If I might add, the store that I went into was not the store that I usually purchased groceries from.
Did you and your husband buy groceries in Irving some place?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "groceries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: commissary; groceries; larder; produce; provender; provision; store; supplies; sustenance; truck
