bodega

• There were no cars threatening in either direction, the bodega was shuttered, I was alone for a stark moment.
• "Hurry." I did CHAPTER 30 The bodega was deep in the stinking well of Nuevo Rio, a small storefront marked with the universal symbols of Power: signs from the Nine Canons spray-painted on the front step, a display window showing small mummified crocodiles nestled among grisgris bags and bottles of different holy waters, lit novenas crowding on the step, each keyed to a shimmer of Power. —  Lilith Saintcrow - [Dante Valentine 1] - Working for the Devil
• The house is a low stone building well whitewashed, and of great length; one end being fitted up as a summer residence, with saloons, bed-rooms, and a domestic chapel; and the other as a bodega or magazine for the reception of the wine produced on the estate. —  The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Vol. II)
• In a city it would have been called a bodega and in the suburbs it would have been franchised, but in Hope it was still what it had probably always been, a cramped and dusty family-run enterprise selling the things people needed when they needed them Reacher needed water and protein and energy. —  Lee Child - [Reacher 12] - Nothing to Lose
• Now, if you've only had a Jamaican patty from a New York City bodega or pizza joint that came frozen from a box, all cookie-cutter looking and disgustingly dry and crumbly inside, I pity you. —  Not Eating Out in New York

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