It was plain that the craft would have to go to the repair shops in Portland before it could be of any further use to them.
The reply came back that there was such a congestion in the shops that it would require two or three weeks to complete the job.
That same day the dictator and his master of horse came down into the forum, ordered all shops to be shut, and all business to be suspended.
I have completed my social studies of our neighbors in Gainsborough Place"--a little street of shops near at hand.
It hesitates, in fact, between a weapon of this size and one of 200 tons, a mass of metal which its shops are now perfectly able to handle.
Their friends come from other places; from butchers' shops in other streets.
Constantius, however, was decidedly favourable to the Eusebians, and this gave tone to the court and to the capital where in all the streets and markets, in all the shops and houses, the questions referred to were considered and discussed.
There are any number of shops that would be glad to have her as a worker.
Some of the shops displayed wares that, under other circumstances, would have been attractive to the girls, but now they did not feel like purchasing.
Almost all the legion of applauders were youngsters; a few of them worked in shops here and there; for the most part they were loafers and organgrinders who wound up by becoming supernumeraries, chorus men or ticket-speculators.
There were two shoe shops opposite one another and both closed.
No merchandise can come out yet on the railroads, all the automobiles and most of the horses are gone, and shops are shy of staple things.
Some of the shops are very splendid; and to finish this rapid survey, I need scarcely mention that there is hardly a single mouth without a cigar in it, or a solitary spot that is not perfumed with the odour of tobacco smoke.
Perhaps Pompeii; certainly not the boulevards, the gas-lit streets, and the flaming shops of the generality of French towns.
We saw also the rows of Hindu shops open to the street, with their gaudily dressed children of blackened eyelids, their stolid dirty proprietors, and their women marvellous in bright silks and massive bangles.
The shops are good, the accommodation plentiful, and in amusements the town can almost vie with Blackpool and Brighton.
A pretty view of Pulteney Bridge with its singular parapet of shops may be obtained from the terrace at the back of the Municipal Buildings.
The streets are wide and airy, and their arrangement compact, but the shops are poor, and create an impression of dullness.
These shops have been filled with boys who are eager for that which seems to give them a clew to the industrial life all about them.
Although out of work for most of the time since the strike, he had been undisturbed for six months in the repair shops of a street-car company, under an assumed name, but he had at that moment been discovered and dismissed.
Hence these shops abound in the worst of the foreign districts where the sweater easily finds his cheap basement and his home finishers.
For the six miles between these two industries the street is lined with shops of butchers and grocers, with dingy and gorgeous saloons, and pretentious establishments for the sale of ready-made clothing.
He plundered a few shops and cut down a flagstaff on which the Union Jack floated from a steep hill behind the town.
She heard the roar of the crowd watching chariots race in the Hippodrome and the cries of the merchants from their shops along the arcaded Mese.
The people crowded in front of the shops were mostly young men, but women and children were scattered among them.
When Baibars became sultan, he closed all the wine shops in El Kahira.
In Paris there are manyshops that are veritable jewel-boxes for beauty and taste; but these are the small specialty shops, very expensive and highly perfumed.
The shopshereabout were not to be trusted--the proprietors, without exception, were rogues and extortioners.
Royalty may ride in Rotten Row of a morning, promenade on the Mall at noon, and shop in the Regent Street shops in the afternoon, and at all times go unguarded and unbothered--I had almost said unnoticed.
First, of course, they steer you into certain shops in the hope that you will buy something and thereby enable them to earn commissions.
An overtowering majority of the smartshops in Paris cater to women; a large majority of the smart shops in London cater to men.
Large as were the sums derived from his other properties--houses and shops and land, which were occupied--it was all eaten up in the attempt to finish this marble Rome in the middle of a brick Babylon.
What one experiences in a barber's shop the first time he enters one is what he always experiences in barbers' shops afterward till the end of his days.
The thronging multitudes had almost disappeared; but many illuminated vehicles were flitting to and fro, and the shops were brilliant.
And, to his astonishment, he had observed that one of the interior shops was occupied by a second-hand bookseller with an address at Hanbridge.
I refer to those shops which are licensed for retailing ardent spirit.
One night, after spending all his money for drink, and loitering about till all the shops were closed, he returned to his miserable habitation.
I walked about the streets where the best shops for ladies were, I haunted the Bazaar like an unquiet spirit, I fagged through the Park again and again, long after I was quite knocked up.
As the shops had charms for Peggotty which I never knew them possess in the same degree for anybody else, I sauntered easily along, amused by her staring in at the windows, and waiting for her as often as she chose.
Many of the shopswere shut, and the town was dull.
This modesty of mine directed my attention to the marine-store shops, and such shops as Mr. Dolloby's, in preference to the regular dealers.
Hatfield to Dunstable) and the erection of several modern shops in the main street has altered its appearance.
Indeed, the whole of "Barnet" is now almost merged into one; there being houses or shops almost from Hadley High Stone to a little S.
The avenue leading to the temple is lined with shops where mementoes of the goddess may be purchased, as in Ephesus of old silver shrines might be bought in honor of the great goddess Diana.
This great esplanade is approached from the four points of the compass by long covered arcades, lined with shops in which offerings of every description can be bought.
Even in the newer town of pink and blue and yellow houses there were Jewish faces to be seen in dusky shops where fruit was displayed for sale, in heaps like many-coloured jewels.
But Vanno had seen such faces and figures as those of Sam Holbein and his wife in dusky shops at Constantine.
Mentone streets were empty and the shops shut: only hotel and villa windows were bright.
Consequently, Mary bought only necessaries, in the big, confusing shops that glared white in the foggy twilight, for Jennings as a companion was more depressing than the cold.
Strangers are not trusted in the shops at Monte Carlo, and the butcher threatened to send no more meat to the Bella Vista unless he were paid what was owing.
Also, she inquired where she could buy the prettiest things to wear, and was directed to the Galerie Charles Trois, which turned out to be that covered gallery with shops and restaurants that she had noticed when driving up the hill.
Hannaford took her by the Port, and past the old town whose heights towered picturesquely up and up, roof after roof, above the queer shops and pink and yellow houses of the sea level.
Mary walked the length of the gallery, so as to see all the shops there were to see, before deciding upon anything.
The shops looked bright and enticing, but Mary did not notice them as she would once have done.
This was another world from the world of the Casino and shops and hotels.
Isn't it a shame that all the nice shops close early on Saturday?
In the less fashionable neighbourhoods the usual Saturday crowd thronged round the shops and booths, making their purchases at an hour when perishable goods could be obtained at bargain prices.
All the world was abroad, men and women and small eager children all bent on the same task, thronging the shops to the doors, waiting in rows for the favour of being served, emerging triumphant with arms laden with spoils.
The paper was secretly bought up by Corentin, and the late opposition sheet became a "canard" sold on Sundays in the wine-shops and concocted in the dens of the police.
What may perhaps have been virtue in its shops is a blunder and a crime higher up.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shops" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
