"And since then I've noticed that three little corner
groceries have gone out of business.
She only wanted him to go into town for
groceries and as soon as she had told him what she wanted began to scold.
The delivery boys hung about the kitchen when they brought the
groceries. Young farmers who were in town for Saturday came tramping through the yard to the back door to engage dances, or to invite Tony to parties and picnics.
right size for Dolls--Lucinda and Jane Doll-cook always bought their
groceries at Ginger and Pickles.
He had plenty of time to accomplish this task, for Mombi had gone to a village -- to buy
groceries, she said -- and it was a journey of at least two days.
The pains are clear away down to my ankles now, or I'd 'a' walked in to Starkfield on my own feet, sooner'n put you out, and asked Michael Eady to let me ride over on his wagon to the Flats, when he sends to meet the train that brings his
groceries. I'd 'a' had two hours to wait in the station, but I'd sooner 'a' done it, even with this cold, than to have you say-"
Also, I paid up the bills I owed to the several
groceries that allowed me a small credit.
It was not until we went across the city and down into the working-class quarter south of Market Street that we found small corner
groceries that had not yet sold out.
I ask you what, as a husband and a father, I am to do when gentlemen come to me and say, `Do as you like, Mawmsey; but if you vote against us, I shall get my
groceries elsewhere: when I sugar my liquor I like to feel that I am benefiting the country by maintaining tradesmen of the right color.' Those very words have been spoken to me, sir, in the very chair where you are now sitting.
The Duke's Daughter paid the butcher's bill, A Phantom Hand put down a new carpet, and the Curse of the Coventrys proved the blessing of the Marches in the way of
groceries and gowns.
It would be some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessaries of life and what methods have been taken to obtain them; or even to look over the old day-books of the merchants, to see what it was that men most commonly bought at the stores, what they stored, that is, what are the grossest
groceries. For the improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence; as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.