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Example sentences for "storekeeper"

Lexicographically close words:
storax; store; stored; storehouse; storehouses; storekeepers; storekeeping; storeman; storeroom; storerooms
  1. She could use brown wrapping paper to write upon, if worst came to worst--the storekeeper might even give her a small, fresh piece of the pale yellow sort.

  2. I've taken enough of the money my father left me to buy a white dress and a new hat, and the storekeeper has sent to the City for me for some white shoes and stockings.

  3. He had the very information for which he had been fishing, nor did he believe the storekeeper suspected him of undue curiosity.

  4. And it was just at dark that the storekeeper saw a light here.

  5. The storekeeper made no reply, but turning on his heel, left them.

  6. I guess they'll get a hustle on, though," the storekeeper replied.

  7. It took the storekeeper some time to get Central in the city, and to become connected with the Police Station.

  8. Wait a minute," the storekeeper called out, when he saw that the captain meant business, "maybe we can arrange this affair without going to law.

  9. For an instant the captain looked the storekeeper full in the face.

  10. Sometimes a man will candidly tell the storekeeper that he has contracted disease, and ask him to make up something to cure it.

  11. A respectably-dressed man went into an intelligence office, and represented himself as a storekeeper residing some twenty miles from New York.

  12. This was the price that a well-to-do storekeeper in the neighbouring township had offered them for the little house which had been their home since she was born, and to her it seemed a fortune.

  13. It was well worth the money that the storekeeper had offered for it.

  14. But I shall ask the storekeeper no questions about these people.

  15. The storekeeper smiled at the pensive man, and the pensive man smiled back at the storekeeper.

  16. When she had gone, the storekeeper returned to his seat on the mackerel kit, and was accosted by a pensive neighbor in high boots who sat upon the upturned end of a case of brogans.

  17. There was something about this daughter of the Coniston storekeeper and ward of Jethro Bass that made them pause.

  18. This storekeeper is a middleman, often a sweater.

  19. The storekeeper enters into a contract with the owner of vast lands to cultivate it, either on rent or on shares of the value of the produce.

  20. He was apprenticed to a storekeeper in Salem in 1766.

  21. This practise reduces the cost of operation and allows the storekeeper to reduce his prices.

  22. Now that the principal agent is dead, will it not be better to smother up the affair and sentence the storekeeper in default?

  23. Wisch, formerly an army contractor, was an honest man and highly respected, who could not survive the idea of having been the dupe of Chardin, the storekeeper who has disappeared.

  24. She saw the father of the Oran storekeeper off the premises, and pointed out the drunken old creature to the porter.

  25. Calmly eyeing the braggart and the muttering group behind him, the storekeeper lighted his pipe and repeated his order to quit.

  26. A tradesman or storekeeper is, after all, not of the shipmaster caste.

  27. But when the lanky young storekeeper appeared on this occasion, Cap'n Ira hailed him cheerfully before Joshua could reach the back door.

  28. McCann had talked the storekeeper at Doan's, where we got our last supplies, out of some extras as a pelon.

  29. The storekeeper was a fellow countryman of my father--from the same county in Ireland, in fact--and I was duly elated on getting away from home to the life of the village.

  30. Evidently the storekeeper was absent, perhaps across the way for his dinner.

  31. But at the moment the storekeeper was at home asleep in his noonday nap; the owner of the Big House had problems of his own, and, as it chanced, none of the neighboring planters was at the railroad station.

  32. The storekeeper felt as though the bottom had dropped out of his heart.

  33. The storekeeper heard him out, a sneering smile on his white face.

  34. They immediately changed their attitude, threatened the storekeeper and his friend with arrest, espoused my cause, and even went with me as far as the door of the Hotel Maury to "protect me from molestation" as they called it.

  35. I declined to pay the Lima storekeeper any more money and also declined to give up my purchase.

  36. The boys waited until they were some distance on the road before they spoke about the news the storekeeper had told them.

  37. You see, it was this way," the storekeeper went on.

  38. The storekeeper raised his head sharply, and appeared to be wide awake at these words.

  39. Deck then called for a dollar's worth of crackers, which the storekeeper had to bring from their hiding-place outside the building.

  40. She was the daughter of a storekeeper in the town, which is the county seat of Russell County; and my friend had often traded there in goods he could not find in the towns nearer home.

  41. The storekeeper had procured and cooked two more, which he was glad to sell at the same price, with an abundant supply of crackers.

  42. The storekeeper soon ordered two dozen, a supply unheard of in his previous business career.

  43. A New York dealer in tools came to the village to sell his wares, and bought all the storekeeper had, and left a standing order for all the blacksmith could make.

  44. Stepping to the little window at the rear, Tom peeped out and saw the storekeeper enter the back yard, walk to the spot where the sled had stopped, and stand for a minute examining the marks in the soil.

  45. It all depended upon his being able to prevent Tom from securing the loan he sought, and diligently did the storekeeper canvass one plan after another in his own mind--but still in vain.

  46. Without saying a word more to her, and forgetting my existence, apparently, he marched off down the street with the determination of going into Yetmore's and denouncing the storekeeper before his customers.

  47. Maybe," said the storekeeper presently, "maybe you know something about that leak?

  48. Clay must have died soon after you left the yacht," the storekeeper said.

  49. My two partners, and a storekeeper who financed us, and his wife.

  50. The storekeeper leaned an elbow on the table, his brows knitted as if in thought; and Moran sat still with an expressionless brown face.

  51. The best he could hope for was that by stern self-denial and rough work on the wharves or in the sawmills, he might earn enough to discharge his debt to the storekeeper who had trusted him.

  52. And the storekeeper looks over his glasses just the way they always do in plays.

  53. Then, the storekeeper told me that Lemuel Adams felt spiteful towards the Hunters because they made so much money out of his land.

  54. But the storekeeper over at Four Corners told me about him.

  55. So she merely handed the storekeeper her list, paid her bill, and departed.

  56. She wanted to drive over to Four Corners and ask the storekeeper some questions about Tom Adams.

  57. The storekeeper invited Peter to call round at the house and to stay to dinner and for as long as he liked afterwards.

  58. The storekeeper seemed broken in spirit, but some color came back to his face when he saw Peter lying there in the bed at the farmhouse with as cheerful an air as if he had only strained his ankle.

  59. The storekeeper there was a man named Hammond, who dealt in farm produce on a large scale and who shipped to the cities of the province.

  60. They eyed each other in silence for a little while; both were bitterly embarrassed, and the storekeeper was numbed with shame.

  61. Ho, Gumbega," called out one, hailing the storekeeper by the nearest approach to his name that the native tongue could roll itself round.

  62. The storekeeper fired off a very contemptuous ejaculation, and turned to help Wyndham to unharness the mules.


  63. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "storekeeper" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.