grocer

• The flippancy of the grocer was additional evidence that her husband was considered a light-weight, even in Prouty. —  The Fighting Shepherdess
• Lady Eynesford considered him remarkably like a grocer, and the very quintessence of nonconformity; but he at least was indisputably respectable, a devoted husband, and the father of a large family, behind whose ranks he was in the habit of walking to chapel twice every Sunday. —  Half a Hero A Novel
• An American minister without resources to pay his butcher and his grocer, his servant and his tailor, presented a spectacle which moved Franklin to great efforts! —  Benjamin Franklin
• Here's ten cents Sam took the money, as much surprised as pleased, for the grocer was considered, and justly, a very mean man Thank you, Mr. Jones," he said You are sure that Bert Barton didn't give you the letter Yes, sir. —  Five Hundred Dollars or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret
• I need not tell you how she had succeeded in tracing me through the green-grocer, who had seen me picked up in the yard, for that you know already. —  The Kitchen Cat and Other Stories

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