Tengga is fat and full of wiles," said Daman, disdainfully, "a mere shopkeeper smitten by a desire to be a chief.
The shopkeeper was in a very disagreeable mood and returned Gammon's greeting roughly.
Nor shall we ever forget the laborious days and nights which that shopkeeper who put out the sign must have spent in mastering our language--"English and French spoken; Australian understood.
Especially grateful did we feel for the warning one Cairo shopkeeper gave us: "Don't go elsewhere to be cheated, Australians.
The shopkeeper regarded them gravely and sadly, as though he felt deeply the doubts they had cast upon his honesty.
The turbaned, white-robed shopkeeper rose and came forward at once, salaaming profoundly, and putting on one side the hubble-bubble he was smoking.
Occasionally one of these professional bookstallers blossoms into a shopkeeper in some court or alley off Holborn; but more generally they are too far gone in drink and dilapidation to get out of the rut.
First, the ordinary book-thief, who watches his opportunity when the shopkeeper is not looking, and simply slips the book quickly under his coat and departs.
Thus no trader or shopkeeper could remain exempt from the dues and charges of the city, and the whole commonalty was placed under the police supervision of the craft masters.
The thin figure of the shopkeeper preceding her, and Mrs. Tyarck casting looks of disparagement on all she passed, the two took their way into the little garden.
The hands of the old shopkeeper fumbling with the package trembled, but Miss Frenzy appeared outwardly calm.
The floor of each is raised three or four feet above the street, and the shopkeeper sits cross-legged among his goods.
A shopkeeper is, however, none too ready to show you his best goods.
If you want to buy anything, you send for a shopkeeper to your house and ask his price.
Through the good offices of a neighboring shopkeeper Mrs. Cafferty had secured a lodger, and, with the courage which is never separate from despair, she had rented a small room beside her own.
The deceased Mr Milvain had a brother who was a struggling shopkeeperin a Midland town.
But every indigo-planter in Tirhoot, and every shopkeeper in Calcutta, is perfectly aware that the downfall of the Government would be attended with the destruction of his fortune, and with imminent hazard to his life.
When walking in London he would undertake to give some droll turn to the name of every shopkeeper in the street, and, when travelling, to the name of every station along the line.
The Bavarian artisan orshopkeeper understands and appreciates good music, as he understands and appreciates good beer.
The Count raises his hat to the shopkeeper, and expects the shopkeeper to raise his hat to him.
She left the order for the monogram, and the affable shopkeeper promised to send the finished seal home the next day.
But the canny young French girl had no notion of letting her charges be imposed upon, and she glared haughtily at the shopkeeper when he seemed too officious.
There lived in Sussex about the time of the Methodist revival, a thriving shopkeeper named Thomas Turner.
But Dickens' shopkeeper or street-sweeper makes no pretence to gentility, and therefore is as far from being vulgar as the man who has never known what it was to be any thing but a gentleman.
From a Shopkeeper in the Country, to a Wholesale Dealer.
He sat upright on his chair, and looked into the face of the worthyshopkeeper until the poor man trembled.
It was the Rector who was standing there in Mr Wentworth's favourite district, talking to a shopkeeper who had always been on the opposition side.
He hinted to the universal shopkeeper at the excellent terms he was on with the emancipated senorita, who was like a sister to the Englishwoman.
Sotillo's temperament was of that sort that he experienced an ardent desire to beat him; just as formerly when negotiating with difficulty a loan from the cautious Anzani, his fingers always itched to take the shopkeeper by the throat.
The shopkeeper raised his eyebrows, came out from behind the counter, and poured a farthing's worth of sunflower seeds into Yegorushka's pocket, using an empty pomatum pot as a measure.
The shopkeeper poured him out a glass and gave him with it a bit of sugar that looked as though it had been nibbled.
There are all sorts of Ivan Ivanitchs," theshopkeeper sighed.
The shopkeeper tried to persuade him of something and began pouring some oats into a big sack for him.
We may say, in the language of Dunn, when he was asked if negroes had such liberties with white men in Charleston, "A nigger knows a Dutch shopkeeper better than he knows himself-a nigger dare not speak that way to anybody else.
Why, the shopkeeper foregoes the ticket, encourages the warehouse negro to steal, and purchases his stealings indiscriminately, at about one-half their value.
Merchants, manufacturers, and builders are no more anxious than the average shopkeeper to keep on hand stocks unnecessarily large, and to have so much money lying idle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shopkeeper" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
