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  • "We didn't realize it would take so long," said Loretta Harrison, 54, a candy-shop owner who frets that in her neighborhood of New Orleans East, the hospital that closed after being ravaged by the storm hasn't been rebuilt.

    On One Block, Resilience and Despair 2010

  • Instead, she led him to a tea-room behind a candy-shop on Tottenham Court Road, a low room with white wicker chairs, colored tiles set in the wall, and green

    Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

  • Instead of that little candy-shop, there stands on the same spot an enormous refinery, whose operations employ hundreds of hands, and whose purchases are by cargoes.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • And usually, just as you reached the door on your hurried way to the nearest candy-shop, she would scare you almost stiff by calling you back, and say:

    The Long Ago

  • The village school-house was situated on a pretty green, and surrounded by old elm-trees, and at a short distance and in full sight was a candy-shop, kept by an old woman, whom the children called Mother

    Self-Denial or, Alice Wood, and Her Missionary Society American Sunday-School Union

  • She works in a candy-shop now and seems well and strong.

    Food and Health Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company

  • And now, instead of making faces Wango chattered at the candy-shop lady.

    Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue Laura Lee Hope

  • To work all the year in that wonderful garden, and see those wonderful things growing! and without doubt any body who worked there could have all the toys he wanted, just as a boy who works in a candy-shop always has all the candy he wants!

    Our Boys Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors Various

  • "He must have come in the store by the back way, when I was out hanging up the clothes," said the candy-shop lady.

    Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue Laura Lee Hope

  • Delicatessen and candy-shop doors stood wide open.

    Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst 1928

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