baker

• He lies buried near the south gate of the churchyard under a large slate recording his name He was followed in his office by Mr. William Stainer, who had hitherto been known as a baker, living in the house which is now Mr. James Godwin's. —  Old Times at Otterbourne
• And I knew a good deal of what was going on in his studio at the time, for J. spent many busy hours with him there, while I, left to my own devices, stared industriously from the windows of the Casa Kirsch_, making believe I was gathering material, or strolled along the Riva pretending it was to market for my midday meal, though the baker was almost next door, and the man from whom I bought the little dried figs that nowhere are so dried and shrivelled up as in Venice, was seldom more than a minute away. —  Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties
• The school had been open two or three months when one day, while the class was spelling the word baker, an abrupt knock on the door interrupted the class and then a man entered without waiting to be admitted. —  The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920
• The old man shifted the position of the baker, and out came such a good odor of cookies that all the children sniffed with delight. —  Little Busybodies The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies
• However, after walking a verst or so I began to meet men and women taking baskets to market or going with empty barrels to fetch the day's water supply; until at length, at the cross streets near the Arbat Gate, where a pieman had set up his stall and a baker was just opening his shop, I espied an old cabman shaking himself after indulging in a nap on the box of his be-scratched old blue-painted, hobble-de-hoy wreck of a drozhki. —  Youth

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