Mrs. Pitt next led the way down Mercery Lane, at the corner of which stood The Chequers of Hope, the inn where Chaucer's pilgrims put up.
But the old street front, with its broad eaves overhanging the narrow lane leading up to the great gateway at the other end, still remains, and renders Mercery Lane the most picturesque and interesting corner of the Cathedral city.
And we read that the French king, John, stopped at the Mercery stalls to buy a knife for the Count of Auxerre.
There are few more pleasing bits of masonry in Britain than the great cathedral gateway at the foot of Mercery Lane, with its rich carving, weather-worn to a soft blur of gray and brown tones.
The little open space between Mercery Lane and the Precincts gatehouse has seen many strange doings which we cannot record.
What processions, triumphal or funereal, have passed along Mercery Lane and crossed the little open space before the gateway to the Precincts!
It is only a few hundred yards away, where Mercery Lane turns off to the left, and has, or had, its dormitory of a hundred beds.
Lydgate, in his ballad, describes the mercers' and haberdashers' stalls as side by side in the mercery in Chepe.
As the Rambler returns, again traversingMercery Lane, there may be noted on the left—No.
You left your place, the mercery business is in a very bad way, and the revenue from my marriage portion is not sufficient to maintain us.
An old maid at Vernon had sent her to one of her relatives who in this arcade kept a mercery shop which she desired to get rid of.
There I will look out for a small mercery business for sale, and Therese and myself will resume selling needles and cotton, which will give us something to do.
Henceforth, the mercery business ceased to bring in a sou towards the household expenses, and it became necessary to encroach on the capital of forty thousand francs and more.
In any case, the future of the little family was assured; the interest on the money put aside added to the profit on the mercery business, would be sufficient to keep three persons comfortably.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mercery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
