Approaching the
shopkeeper, who had been narrowly observing him as he read the placard, he was about to speak, when the
shopkeeper called to a salesman:
I dropped in there while Marco, the son of Marco, was haggling with a
shopkeeper over a quarter of a pound of salt, and asked for change for a twenty-dollar gold piece.
He had sketched this new pose, when all at once he recalled the face of a
shopkeeper of whom he had bought cigars, a vigorous face with a prominent chin, and he sketched this very face, this chin on to the figure of the man.
Truchen was quite dressed: in the costume of the
shopkeeper's wife, rich yet coquettish; German eyes attacking French eyes.
No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer,so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord,the
shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.
It being nearly seven o'clock, he was as eager to hold a morning gossip as a city
shopkeeper to read the morning paper.
She has a soft, pleasant voice, but your voice is rough; you are the wolf!' Then the wolf went away to a
shopkeeper and bought himself a great lump of chalk, ate this and made his voice soft with it.
Some there are, however, of this rank upon whom passion exercises its tyranny, and hurries them far beyond the bounds which decorum prescribes; of these the ladies are as much distinguished by their noble intrepidity, and a certain superior contempt of reputation, from the frail ones of meaner degree, as a virtuous woman of quality is by the elegance and delicacy of her sentiments from the honest wife of a yeoman and
shopkeeper. Lady Bellaston was of this intrepid character; but let not my country readers conclude from her, that this is the general conduct of women of fashion, or that we mean to represent them as such.
"A
shopkeeper in the Rue des Lombards, who has great influence upon the commerce of his quarter."
The complaisant
shopkeeper changed the language to French and recounted rapidly to Elizabeth his hopes of being permitted to return to his own country.
passengers said to a
shopkeeper, in reference to a proposed return
Our principal trade was watching
shopkeepers' counters, and slipping off any kind of goods we could see carelessly laid anywhere, and we made several good bargains, as we called them, at this work.