tobacco-shop

I went into a tobacco-shop, tendered a pound note and asked for a packet of cigarettes and a box of matches.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 29, 1919 Various

Boss Murphy, was the real enemy of the people -- "the man who caused the lock-out in the days of Jim Larkin"; but the looters, having tasted the blood of theft, were far too avaricious by this time to think of politics in their orgy, and instead began to make a raid on a tobacco-shop, and next a small jeweller's.

Six days of the Irish Republic A Narrative and Critical Account of the Latest Phase of Irish Politics

He went to the grocer, to the tobacco-shop, to the fuel-dealer, and was received tolerably well; he was especially successful with the grocer's daughter when he appeared in your likeness.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Various

For this reason they were held, though only dukes of Tuscany, to be entitled to the style and title "imperial and royal," according to the custom of the House of Austria; and thus every grimy little tobacco-shop and lottery-office in Tuscany, in the days when I first knew it, in 1841, styled itself "imperial and royal."

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various

Dutoitspan Road in front of a tobacco-shop, but thanks to the picturesque array of pipes and pouches in the window the missile, as if it had an eye for art, refrained from bursting; instead it made a little grave to the depth of several feet and buried itself with honour.

The Siege of Kimberley T. Phelan

After studying the effect of this in his mirror, he strolled down the main street of Pedro, and, selecting a little tobacco-shop, went in.

King Coal : a Novel Upton Sinclair 1923

Next to the door of the tobacco-shop, there was the open entrance to a stairway, and, above this rather bleak and dark aperture, a sign-board displayed in begrimed gilt letters the information that Frincke's Business College occupied the upper floors of the building.

Alice Adams 1921

` ` How charming! '' she cried, giving him a little flourish of the shapely hands; and then, because she wondered if he had seen her coming out of the tobacco-shop, she laughed and added, ` ` I've just been on the most ridiculous errand! ''

Alice Adams 1921

He dropped his wheel-barrow, strode from between the shafts and went and looked into the great window of the tobacco-shop.

The Path of Life Stijn [pseud.] Streuvels 1920

Straight opposite the tobacco-shop, the boy gave a sidelong glance at the great window, with all those rich things displayed behind it, and he whistled a little tune.

The Path of Life Stijn [pseud.] Streuvels 1920