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Bermondsey -- and the proprietor of the cheesemonger's shop, who had emerged from his caves of double Gloucester, was wanting to make a case of his own out of it all, and run the two of us in.
The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various
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He lay on the bed, and watched the lights on the ceiling until the cheesemonger's shop and the tinman's were closed; then he went to sleep, and in a while Dick came and awoke him.
Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray
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He stared at the tinman's shop opposite, and at the cheesemonger's fat widow, and at the window of the Berlin wool shop next door to the cheesemonger's, and when a customer went in he speculated idly on his purchase.
Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray
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I had seen a policeman on the other side of the way, standing under the shop-blind of a cheesemonger's shop, talking to the young man with the apron who was in charge, grinning from ear to ear with him, and grossly neglecting his duty, which was to keep a sharp look out at what was going on up and down the street.
The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various
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This is invented for me, and delivered to me orally by Mr. Murdstone, and begins, 'If I go into a cheesemonger's shop, and buy five thousand double-Gloucester cheeses at fourpence-halfpenny each, present payment' - at which I see Miss Murdstone secretly overjoyed.
David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917
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"It's as hard as the hams at the cheesemonger's," said Hunca Munca.
The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter Beatrix Potter 1904
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"It's as hard as the hams at the cheesemonger's," said Hunca Munca.
The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter Beatrix Potter 1904
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"It's as hard as the hams at the cheesemonger's," said Hunca Munca.
The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter Beatrix Potter 1904
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Thanks to his cold he did not pass the cheesemonger's without entering.
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns Arnold Bennett 1899
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He emerged from the cheesemonger's with a pound of the perfectest Gorgonzola that ever greeted the senses.
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns Arnold Bennett 1899
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