Serjeant Buzfuz prayed a TALES; the gentleman in black then proceeded to press into the special jury, two of the common jurymen; and a
greengrocer and a chemist were caught directly.
Two of the abominable wretches watched all last week at the
greengrocer's opposite, and we could not get away until Sunday.
There was Miss Belvawney--who seldom aspired to speaking parts, and usually went on as a page in white silk hose, to stand with one leg bent, and contemplate the audience, or to go in and out after Mr Crummles in stately tragedy--twisting up the ringlets of the beautiful Miss Bravassa, who had once had her likeness taken 'in character' by an engraver's apprentice, whereof impressions were hung up for sale in the pastry-cook's window, and the
greengrocer's, and at the circulating library, and the box-office, whenever the announce bills came out for her annual night.
An unusual air of gallantry and dissipation is abroad; evinced in an immense bunch of mistletoe hanging in the
greengrocer's shop doorway, and a poor little Twelfth Cake, culminating in the figure of a Harlequin--such a very poor little Twelfth Cake, that one would rather called it a Twenty- fourth Cake or a Forty-eighth Cake--to be raffled for at the pastrycook's, terms one shilling per member.
The shop was a popular
greengrocer and fruiterer's, an array of goods set out in the open air and plainly ticketed with their names and prices.
Biggs is our
greengrocer, and his chief talent lies in securing the services of the most abandoned and unprincipled errand-boys that civilisation has as yet produced.
The Portuguese grocer refused him further credit, while the
greengrocer, who was an American and proud of it, had called him a traitor to his country and refused further dealings with him - carrying his patriotism to such a degree that he cancelled Martin's account and forbade him ever to attempt to pay it.
Her one asset, the fact that her mother was what the Epsom
greengrocer called a carriage lady had no exchange value, apparently.
His wife -- a fat woman -- and two grown-up daughters kept a
greengrocer's shop in the East-end of London.
Do you talk about your sister to the butcher and the
greengrocer, too?
'Niece, nevy, cousin, serwant, young 'ooman,
greengrocer.--Dash it!
There was a man with his wife and two boys and some articles of furniture in a cart such as
greengrocers use.