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I invited the Mayor to Hackton, and Mrs. Mayoress (a very buxom pretty groceress she was, by the way) I made sit by my wife, and drove them both out to the races in my curricle.
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‘I can recollect Mrs. Winter very well, if nobody else can,’ said the aged groceress.
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The groceress sighed as she conjured up a vision of days long past.
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‘I can recollect Mrs. Winter very well, if nobody else can,’ said the aged groceress.
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The groceress sighed as she conjured up a vision of days long past.
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At the three-quarters, two other women arrive, in whom the first recognizes the postmistress of Upper Longpuddle and the registrar's wife, they recognizing her as the aged groceress of the same village.
Life's Little Ironies Thomas Hardy 1884
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'Why, to be sure,' said the aged groceress in the background, 'it isn't
Life's Little Ironies Thomas Hardy 1884
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The groceress sighed as she conjured up a vision of days long past.
Life's Little Ironies Thomas Hardy 1884
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'I can recollect Mrs. Winter very well, if nobody else can,' said the aged groceress.
Life's Little Ironies Thomas Hardy 1884
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Then there is the grocer, who is a groceress, and the groceress's husband.
Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches Kenneth [Illustrator] Frazier 1875
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