green-grocer

This disguised green-grocer is a very well-known character in the neighborhood of Pocklington Square.

Mrs. Perkins's Ball 2006

Mr. Tom Smallways was a green-grocer by trade and a gardener by disposition; his little wife Jessica saw to the shop, and Heaven had planned him for a peaceful world.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

We have not yet said anything of the money we saved by our kitchen-garden, but we must add to the profits of our six months 'farming the average amount we should have paid to a green-grocer for fruit and vegetables.

Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it Miss Coulton

This aristocratic lady was known in the house as Madame la Princesse, and was the daughter of our ancient _paysanne_ and green-grocer, whom a Slav noble had taken from a _café chantant_ in

Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

O'Iwa, daughter of Kanémon, the younger brother of this Cho [u] bei and green-grocer of Abegawacho [u] of Asakusa.

The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)

You are a prudent man; of course you immediately demanded your money when you saw that the green-grocer was about to fail.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig Various

From an itinerant green-grocer, who passes with his panniered donkey, suddenly bursts forth, "_Cimaroli, cimaroli_!"

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various

"Why," says he, "you confounded long-shore picked-up son of a green-grocer, what _are_ you after?" an 'he takes the article a slap with his larboard-flipper, as sent it flying to leeward like a puff of smoke.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. Various

Pinky did not have a high opinion of the lady, for he observed that she quarreled with the green-grocer about the price of vegetables.

Adventure of the Purloined Periapt Derleth, August 1945

_Cabbage: _ -- Cabbage is one of the few vegetables which may be had in almost as good quality from the green-grocer as it can be grown at home, and as it takes up considerable space, it may often be advisable to omit the late sorts from the home garden if space is very limited.

Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use 1930