store-keeper

"What are you going to do with two tons?" the store-keeper demanded.

Chapter IX 2010

And if a store is really awful, maybe you can work with civic authorities to clean it up, but that is a bit of a crap shoot, because public tends to side with the poor store-keeper who is just trying to make a living.

ProWomanProLife » Good morning, can I go back to bed now? 2010

Why, the store-keeper was charging twice as much as what the pavement vendors would have charged!

Full-Blooded Fantasy Steve Erickson 2005

Why, the store-keeper was charging twice as much as what the pavement vendors would have charged!

Full-Blooded Fantasy Steve Erickson 2005

I sent back early this morning, our native, with the store-keeper, some of the men, and the shepherd, to look for the lost sheep in the reeds, and Yuranigh fortunately found them out, still not very far from the spot where they had been separated from the rest of the flock.

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

A new brick store house, covered with tiles, 100 feet long by twenty-four wide, is nearly completed, and a house for the store-keeper.

The Settlement at Port Jackson 2003

The third member of the staff was the store-keeper, a clever fellow: I fancy a Loango from his clean-cut features and spare make, but his tribe I know not for a surety.

Travels in West Africa 2003

Mr. Drysdale, the store-keeper, had collected an herbarium during the long sojourn of the party at that camp, which included many new plants.

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

"Say --" Dick sniffed, and smiled gratefully at the store-keeper -- "sack me up a bushel of those apples, will you, Mr. Marlow."

The Apples of Hesperides, Kansas 1996

Louisa's tantrums, I reckoned, were based on her belief that life had cheated her, finding her at forty as a sort of store-keeper (efficient, meticulous and helpful) but not a Great Scientist.

Twice shy Francis, Dick, 1920- 1981