Wealthy corporations were made to pay heavily for "peace"; timid storekeepers were blackmailed.
The king has at all these places storekeepers nominated by the intendant, to whom they report direct.
The officers, the government storekeepers and clerks, .
The fact is that San Francisco's Bohemian restaurants would be far less interesting were it not for the fact that they can secure the delicacies imported by these foreign storekeepers to supply the wants of their people.
And when this happened, when really, for the first time, Bunny Brown and his sister Sue were truly storekeepers you can hardly imagine how pleased they were.
The storekeepers often do this, and put it down on the loss side of their books.
We saw one of the storekeepers give a dead-beat swagman five shillings' worth of rations to take him on into Queensland.
It's just this way, Tom: the planters in Samoa say they cannot carry on unless they have coloured labour from the other islands, and the storekeepers say the same, and the two together work dead against the missionaries.
The education given is so very superior, and habits of order and propriety are so admirably inculcated, that it is not uncommon to see the children of wealthy storekeepers side by side with those of working mechanics.
Some of the storekeepers have been putting the screw on him.
Your partner has some talents and seems to have made Norton and my storekeepershis friends.
You know the stuff the storekeepers supply their debtors.
The storekeepers would not look at it, or give either money or goods for such a damaged article.
If a strange family arrived without a penny, someone had to fix 'em up, and the storekeepers helped them till the man got work.
The local storekeepers and one or two firms in Sydney, who had large accounts against the Imperial Hotel (and had trusted it, mainly because it was patronized by Capitalism and Fat), were never paid.
So thestorekeepers assumed a large portion of the Too Sure Man's burden.
When he begins to totter he tries to pass some of the load over to others, and it is usually the storekeepers who are willing to assist him to the limit if his assets are in good retrospect.
There is not such a thing as an overcoat in the place--the storekeepers do not sell them--and the natives never heard of stoves.
They visit with their friends and gossip over the wire, order their meats and groceries from the market, and direct the storekeepers to send up samples of the goods they want to buy.
Arnold's expensive habits of living soon brought him deeply in debt, and when the storekeepers urged payment of their bills, he contrived dishonest methods of obtaining money belonging to the government.
He frequently came to Perth for the sake of a little chat with the storekeepers and the gentry, and as he was sure to blarney some one into giving him a dinner, he always returned home light of heart and unimpaired in pocket.
The boatmen made fortunes, whilst the farmers were nearly ruined by their charges, and those of the storekeepers in the towns.
The storekeepers were always ready to stop and sell their goods to any one who wished them.
In many places the families of the storekeepers lived in the one room that was both store and dwelling, but they did not seem to be troubled when they noticed Chin's black eyes following them.
The storekeepers won't credit him, and he has become desperate.
As a rule, the unfortunate farmer soon became indebted to local storekeepers as well as to the man from whom he had bought his holding.
The storekeepers and implement dealers in the small settlements had many bad debts, and their charges were proportionately high, but Harding did not see why he and his friends should pay for the defaulters.
At that date, and indeed for many long years, most of the storekeepers on St. Paul Street lived over their places of business.
A few days after, he told me he had taken a contract from one of the storekeepers in town to cut hay.
There was neither doctor nor chemist in the place, but one of the storekeepers came and looked at me, and sold me some medicine which in a short time drove the fearful "shakings" I had away.
Whether or not the governor was a party to the fraud I cannot say, but this morning he had all the storekeepers who were arrested shot, and Colonel Mendez, who was present at the investigation, was murdered during the night.
It is infinitely worse than I thought," the colonel said, "and I fear that the storekeepers are not the only people concerned in these frauds.
Only two or three of the storekeepers had been arrested.
It had originally been built by the town; but the various storekeepers were most benefited by the wharf, for their freight came by water for more than half of the year.
Janice urged the young people's society of the church into the work of getting the storekeepers to promise to clean up back rooms, cellars, sheds, and the awful yards behind their ancient shops.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "storekeepers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
