grocering

For you cannot lay down the tailoring, or the shoemaking, or the brokering, or the green-grocering, or the pictorial - periodicalling, or the second-hand wardrobe, or the small fancy businesses, — you cannot lay down those lines of life at your will and pleasure by the half-day or evening, and take up Waitering.

Somebody's Luggage 2007

Anyway, the house is clean, the grocering is done, I have a glass of wine, I have thou, I have lots of new stuff.

embarrassment of riches Gwenda 2004

For you cannot lay down the tailoring, or the shoemaking, or the brokering, or the green-grocering, or the pictorial-periodicalling, or the second-hand wardrobe, or the small fancy businesses, -- you cannot lay down those lines of life at your will and pleasure by the half-day or evening, and take up Waitering.

Somebody's Luggage Charles Dickens 1841