stall-keeper

The successful women, bumped and jostled by the rest, were trying to make off with their saucepans while dozens of others clamoured round the stall, accusing the stall-keeper of favouritism and of having more saucepans somewhere in reserve.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

The successful women, bumped and jostled by the rest, were trying to make off with their saucepans while dozens of others clamoured round the stall, accusing the stall-keeper of favouritism and of having more saucepans somewhere in reserve.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

The stall-keeper was just extinguishing his lights; the frosty sky showed a pale gleam of sunrise.

New Grub Street 2003

She had done some ‘work’ for our stall-keeper in the Champs-Elysées, and went out in the snow to give it to her with her own hands, so as not to lose a day.

Within a Budding Grove 2003

At length he cried, “I have it!” and went with him to a spring, dipped himself in it, and came out as a stall-keeper in the market, and dealer in animals.

Household Tales 2003

The first woman had been actively hostile, and only the woman with the sausages seemed at all friendly-and that was simply because of the quarrel she had with the first stall-keeper.

The Robin And The Kestrel Lackey, Mercedes 1993

One day I asked another woman stall-keeper who was a friend of mine if the owners ever sold the books.

A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

One day I asked another woman stall-keeper who was a friend of mine if the owners ever sold the books.

A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

One day I asked another woman stall-keeper who was a friend of mine if the owners ever sold the books.

A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

One day I asked another woman stall-keeper who was a friend of mine if the owners ever sold the books.

A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992