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And I know all my neighbours by name and the butcher knows me and the station master will chat with me and the bus driver lets me off next to my house and the fruit-shop guy and I swap recipies.
The Plusses and Minuses of living in the Mountains. reynardo 2001
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They came back at two o'clock lugging a large fruit-shop carrier with a bottle of scotch and a pineapple sticking out of the top.
In The Frame Francis, Dick 1976
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Very soon he would not leave them at all, and he hired a place near the fruit-shop, and worked in it on his own account.
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For the nearly twenty years that I have lived in this quarter, I have dealt in her little fruit-shop.
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But now here were toys and things which Whiting, in a climax of generosity, had culled from bake-shop and grocer, from flower-shop, fruit-shop, and confectioner.
The Gay Cockade Temple Bailey
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I had noticed her empty fruit-shop, which nobody came into, and, being attracted by its forsaken appearance, I made my little purchases in it.
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They stand, unsmiling, but not serious, in the broad sunlight opposite the fruit-shop; the pink spider of a hand beats the guitar, the little squat hand, with a brass-and-turquoise ring, forces the reluctant flute, and the fiddler's arm tries to saw the fiddle in two.
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He would get her to come to tea with him, usually in a pleasant tea-room over a fruit-shop in Tottenham Court Road, and he would discuss his own point of view and hint at a thousand devotions were she but to command him.
Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story Herbert George 1909
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He would get her to come to tea with him, usually in a pleasant tea-room over a fruit-shop in Tottenham Court Road, and he would discuss his own point of view and hint at a thousand devotions were she but to command him.
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They had never been in a garden before -- in this new land ... the melons and berries and plums and peaches and pears that came crated into the little fruit-shop had grown in unknown fields -- but here they stretched in the sun; and the two Greeks moved toward them with laughing, gentle words and quick gestures that flitted and stopped, and went on, and gathered in the day.
Mr. Achilles Jennette Barbour Perry Lee 1905
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