wine-merchant's

Her father, who had not always been punctual in paying his wine-merchant's bills, would not have touched gin and water, would not have allowed it to contaminate his table.

Ayala's Angel 1993

It was about a week later that he was again near the "Oldfield Arms," when a spruce-looking man -- his wine-merchant's agent -- came out of the inn door, and walked up the street.

Frank Oldfield Lost and Found T.P. Wilson

They were succeeded by a clanking noise, deep down below; as if some person were dragging a heavy chain over the casks in the wine-merchant's cellar.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester

I shall never forget my feelings when one morning in a certain wine-merchant's cellar I saw several eighteen-gallon casks of Bass's

Adventures of a Despatch Rider William Henry Lowe Watson

The patient with the cyst presented himself in the form of a small bearded man with a red face, wearing over his vest the wine-merchant's apron of coarse black cloth.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

Across the road from the wine-merchant's is a delectable tea-shop.

Adventures of a Despatch Rider William Henry Lowe Watson

Every room above, and every cask in the wine-merchant's cellars below, appeared to have a separate peal of echoes of its own.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester

Athena and belonging to the pre-Hellenic period, appears to have been used as a wine-merchant's cellar or as a magazine, for in it there are nine enormous earthen jars of various forms, about five and three-fourths feet high and four and three-fourths feet across, their mouths being from twenty-nine and one-half to thirty-five and one-fourth inches broad.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

I shall look out for something safe and quiet, and end my days as a wine-merchant's tout or an insurance agent. '

The Explorer 1919

I am not certain whether I found out then, or afterwards, that, without being actively concerned in any business, he had some share in, or some annual charge upon the profits of, a wine-merchant's house in London, with which his family had been connected from his great-grandfather's time, and in which his sister had a similar interest; but I may mention it in this place, whether or no.

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917