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  • There are no meat-markets, no grocery-stores, no dairies; everything we eat and drink is prepared by the government laboratories and sold in drug stores.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Johnny Pez 2010

  • There are no meat-markets, no grocery-stores, no dairies; everything we eat and drink is prepared by the government laboratories and sold in drug stores.

    "The Moon Woman" by Minna Irving, part 3 Johnny Pez 2010

  • If Mac and Woody could have told you why they hunted, near a village with three cheap grocery-stores, they might have said Oh to pass a little time and not hurt anything anybody cares about more than a fox.

    CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988

  • If Mac and Woody could have told you why they hunted, near a village with three cheap grocery-stores, they might have said Oh to pass a little time and not hurt anything anybody cares about more than a fox.

    CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988

  • The healing-properties of some of our most valuable herbs were first discovered by the Indians, and, as they never had any grocery-stores, the presence of trees that would supply them with sugar was a blessing not likely to be neglected.

    Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church

  • The Chinese grocery-stores are museums to the American.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

  • Political strife might rage in the grocery-stores, religious differences flame high in the vestibule of the church, and social distinctions embitter the Ladies 'Club, but the library was a neutral ground where all parties met, united by a common and disinterested effort.

    Hillsboro People Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

  • The firewood was contributed, a load apiece, by the farmers of the country about, and the oil for the lamps was the common gift of the three grocery-stores.

    Hillsboro People Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

  • "We haven't any children to bother about any more," she said, laughing, "so we take it out in putting knockers on the doors instead of bells and in keeping the grocery-stores out of sight so that the looks of the village green shan't be spoiled."

    Hillsboro People Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

  • She knew just where the succotash, the cake-boxes, the clothes-lines, were kept in each of the grocery-stores, and on market Saturdays she could wait on herself.

    The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918

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