The Chinese General Paua, Aguinaldo's brother-in-law, surrendered in March and found shopkeeping in Binondo a less risky business than generalship.
Under the Spanish-Philippine Government the most that could be said against them, as a class, was that, through their thrift and perseverance, they outran the shopkeeping class in the race of life.
Indeed it frequently happens that a private landlord, when laying out a building estate, makes arrangements with his shopkeeping tenants designed to prevent them from being swamped by others in the same trade starting on his estate.
The small trading and shopkeeping class is exceedingly numerous in Germany, in consequence of the stinted development which the large capitalists and manufacturers as a class have had in that country.
The great mass of the nation, which neither belonged to the nobility nor to the bourgeoisie, consisted in the towns of the small trading and shopkeeping class and the working people, and in the country of the peasantry.
Had it never occurred to him that the public proximity of an uneducatedshopkeeping relative must be unwelcome to a lad who was distinguishing himself at Whitelaw College?
Oliver was making money, and enjoyed distinction among the shopkeeping community.
Gladly he would have seen her more often, but the air of shopkeeping he was compelled to breathe when he visited Twybridge nauseated and repelled him.
What he disliked more than anything else, was the greed of the shopkeeping bourgeois.
The French shopkeeping bourgeois is, as a rule, a silly, pompous creature; very frequently, he is mean and contemptible besides.
In an earlier part of these chapters I referred to the new style of shopkeeping that has developed in Birmingham with the growing size and importance of the town and city.
The skilled artisan who worked at home and either made goods for a master or sold to the trade verged into the shopkeeping class.
Yet little more than a twelvemonth of shopkeeping had so undermined his pluck, enfeebled his temper, that he could not regard himself in the glass without shame.
You know I began shopkeeping as if I were ashamed of myself.
One enormous advantage of my shopkeeping is that I'm my own master.
Shopkeeping is generally easy, and often pleasant; hence the excessive number of individuals applying themselves to it.
There is no doubt but a very large amount of the shopkeeping class are rapidly falling into the condition of the unemployed labourers.
Then you have the shopkeeping class descending to the rank of the operatives.
De Foe was himself a shopkeeper, just as Wells has been in one of his incarnations; and he knew that goodshopkeeping is the microcosm of all good political economy.
And on the strength of this he would have nothing more to do with his shopkeeping parents in Naples.
He was paying very dearly for the way in which he had vented the spirit of perpetual opposition peculiar to the Paris shopkeeping classes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shopkeeping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
