The question whether male or female clerks in stores are preferred by shopping ladies, has lately been agitated.
The report goeth that this ship brought great stores of treasure, for that there came in her the Prince of Ascoli, and many other noblemen.
At the scene of the wreck were found the sloop of war Algerine, a schooner as tender, and a complement from the Warspite, which were engaged in saving such stores and spars as had drifted ashore.
But when you learn, as I learned later, that some of the proprietors of these second hand stores and fly-blown butcher shops have sons in Harvard and daughters in Wellesley, it makes you think.
The street was lined with second hand stores with coats and trousers swinging over the sidewalk, and the windows were filled with odd lots of shoes.
They all had clothes enough and appeared well fed and if some of them looked pasty, the sweet stuff in the stores was enough to account for that.
She'd spend an hour here and then if she needed anything more she'd go down town to the big stores and wander around here for another hour.
Sweeney owned about half their stores and had taken this method to bring Dan back to the fold, once he found he couldn't check his progress.
I've been watching them at the little stores in the square.
And sometimes they would face the still more formidable task of dragging a whole steamboat up the rapids, with troops aboard and stores to last for weeks.
It is a joke in the neighborhood that the professor plants his balloon crop in the spring, gathers it in the fall, and stores it away through the winter.
East of them were the Menominees (Wild-Rice Eaters), a comparatively gentle folk, who gathered great stores of grain from the broad fields of wild rice which flourishes in the bayous and marshy river bottoms of northeast Wisconsin.
This trade poured ducats into his coffers like the flow of a river, and when he died he left vast stores of gold to his sons Cosmo and Lorenzo.
In the many changes consequent upon this, many stores of good porcelain gathered in Holland have gradually come to be sold to persons who wanted them more than the Dutch did.
Not only has this people conquered and subdued the land--it has also conquered and subdued the sea, and has drawn stores of wealth from both.
As they were in a hurry to reach their destination, Lady Eranklin Bay, little time was spent here and no stores were landed.
Colwell, with the help of both parties, succeeded in landing a lot of provisions and stores at Cape Sabine, and here he cached five hundred rations.
A great lot of provisions and stores had been thrown overboard on to the ice, much being lost in so doing.
It was his benevolent thoughtfulness which had supplied drinking troughs for the flocks of pigeons that continually plundered the stores of the other grain merchants.
The French were taken into the Indian lodges and shown the storesof food laid up against the coming winter.
He landed storesand munitions and erected houses, apparently on a scale of some magnitude, with towers and fortifications and with great kitchens, halls, and living rooms.
The ships lay off the shore of the island all night and replenished the stores of wood and water.
Anyone who has had to write or to read official letters about stocks of stores and provisions will find something especially modern in Howard's representations.
It is universally admitted that a secondary base at which stocks of stores are kept should be properly defended.
Nearly every article of naval stores of all classes has to be brought to our bases by sea, just as much as if it were brought direct to our ships.
You may have noticed that I have been dealing with the question as though stores and coal were to be transported direct to the men-of-war wherever they might be and put straight on board them from the carrying-vessels.
Speaking generally, each of our naval stations has a principal base at which considerable or even extensive repairs of the ships can be effected and at which stores are accumulated.
She tied the ships to harbour by supplying the stores in driblets.
Expenditure of coal and of some important articles of engineers' stores depends on the relation between the time that she is stationary and the time she is under way.
Augustus Jessopp asserts that the Queen's ships 'were notoriously and scandalously ill-furnished with stores and provisions for the sailors, and it is impossible to lay the blame on anyone but the Queen.
Alongside the reciprocating engine room were the engineers' stores and workshop.
Business then began, and the transfer of provisions and stores of almost every kind was made from one ship to the other.
He said he wanted to buy provisions and stores of any kind, sailors' clothing, boots, or anything we could sell, which our captain laughingly agreed to do.
On being questioned, he said that the French claimed the stores as their own, because they had captured the vessel from which they were taken, and that they were very angry at the idea of the English appropriating them.
With the experience they had already attained, they soon carried their plan into execution, and in a short time conveyed a considerable quantity of the stores on shore.
Some of the party thought they took a great deal of trouble for little purpose, and that it would be more easy to get the stores on shore as they were required.
In a short time it returned, and a message was delivered from the captain, that he thought it would be wiser to build another raft, in order more rapidly to get the stores on shore.
The unexpected revolt of his personal serfs at Kamba was a veritable disaster, for they had charge of his largest canoe, the sails and stores of his gunboat, and his principal magazine.
Pandora was called) Captain Edwards victualled and manned the mutineer's schooner as his tender, but he parted company with her in a storm off Samoa an hour before a fresh supply of stores and water was to be put on board of her.
On Main street are to be seen several fine buildings, fine stores and fine residences, while Pacific and Belliveau hotels are quite imposing.
As for the odds and ends that he stores up under the threshold, they are of more value than the treasures that the priggish Understanding displays in his show windows upstairs.
Quite a busy boardwalk diverged from the main boardwalk thoroughfare, and some minor stores and restaurants of the cheaper class occupied the first block.
Here and there among the stores lanterns were in use, even candles, and where they had gas it was in full play.
They posted them in nearly all thestores along the boardwalk.
At a yet later stage, when the surface of the country had worn down many thousands of feet below the original level, the mineral stores of the caverns may be brought near the surface of the earth.
The result is that before it begins to ascend in the tropical updraught, being much moisture-laden, the atmosphere stores a good deal of heat.
In the department stores they do not use string on small packages, and on large packages they tie the string only one way around.
Each week the stores have numbers hanging up in their windows telling what can be bought that week, like "Rice on Number 13" or a "Pudding on Number 6.
Most stores will sell only one spool of embroidery floss to one person at a time.
Vacant stores were rented for storing this collection and the people had to bring the things there.
None of the department stores will deliver anything that costs less than five marks, and notices are posted everywhere asking people to carry their purchases home with them.
Leipzigerstrasse is all big stores, and these stores do a rushing business.
In Germany I sometimes had to go to three or four different storesbefore I could get a spool of silk thread.
The advertisements were for the different shops and stores in Ruhleben.
Until after Christmas there were no other cards, but along in December the butter began to be scarce, and the stores would sell only a half pound to each person, and the people had to stand in line to get that half pound.
But in addition to this, several bakers' shops and other provision stores had been emptied without a great deal of disturbance.
A muddy little country town, with one or two tolerably decent streets, wherein a few handsome stores are mixed up with old shanties, is not much to see in any part of the civilized world.
In the stores the cash boy has disappeared, the cash carrier takes the money to a girl who sits, a machine makes the change, another machine does her mathematics.
As I travel both in this country and abroad I drop in book stores and meet the friends who sell my books and from them I hear some mighty pleasant and enthusiastic expressions of approval.
Moreover I will expend in his aid all my subtleties, my transformations, the stores of my wisdom.
