ship-chandlery

Finally he consented to send a message to the king on my promising that not only would I pay him liberally for such ship-chandlery as he might supply us with, but that if all went well I would present him with a ruby of equal value to that which I had shown him before I left the island.

Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century George Forbes

A barometer, a map, two stiffly painted pictures exhibiting as many sailing vessels in full flight, a calendar bearing the advertisement of a ship-chandlery firm -- this was the extent of the wall decoration.

Broken to the Plow Charles Caldwell Dobie 1912

He did, briefly, giving the facts of his disastrous sojourn in ship-chandlery.

Fair Harbor Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

"He has not since emerged," added the Quaymaster Bussa darkly, as doubtful that in the interim Captain Hunken might have suffered forcible conversion into one of the obscurer "lines" of ship-chandlery, wherein so much purports to be what it is not.

Hocken and Hunken Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

A nice, steady young man in the ship-chandlery business, with

A Little Girl in Old Salem Amanda Minnie Douglas 1873

Well, I used to be proud too, before the ship-chandlery business and the Old Colony railroad dismasted me and left me high and dry. "

Fair Harbor Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907