1561 examples of customer in sentences

Madame Bourdieu, with the keen scent characteristic of her profession, divined a possible customer in that inquisitive lady who put such strange questions to her.

" He did not seem to be a very terrible customer, but at the sound of his voice she began to tremble, full of childish fear, as if she were threatened with a thrashing.

"Carter was a gruff and disagreeable man, and, although my father had been a good customer, he refused his request and threatened to discharge Nora, which he did.

He first visited the barber, and that deft personage, accustomed, as a result of years of carefully performed duty to the ways and desires of his customer, shaved him with unusual delicacy, keeping cool cloths upon his head during the whole ceremony, and terminating the exercise with a shampoo of the most refreshing character.

Mr. Kerry Mackintosh repeated his question more bruskly; the shadow (obviously not a customer,no one ever sought Mr. Mackintosh's wares!) started; his face showed signs of a vacillating purpose.

"This is positively the last time I shall have to trouble you, dear Miss Milligan," said her customer sweetly.

"I know no more about him than I know of any chance customer," he was saying when Allerdyke was ushered in by Blindway, who immediately closed the door on this informal conclave.

"It was rather for the convenience of a wholesale customer that he was prepared to put them all up together.

The saloon-man naturally resented any discussion of this character, and told his customer to either pay for the liquor or return it right away.

As the old Turk dived into the recesses of his shop to attend to the wants of his fair customer, the latter removed her veil, revealing, as she did so, one of the sweetest and fairest faces it has ever been my good fortune to look upon.

She made him an enormous sandwich and wished that she could hug him, but another customer was waiting.

Here and there, in a badly lit shop with a greenish glass window, an old chemist with the air of a wizard was measuring out for a blue-coated customer an ounce of dried lizard flesh, some powdered shark's eggs, or slivered horns of mountain deer.

"I'm come about some diamonds," panted the customer, casting a wistful glance towards these implements of coercion the while.

But when a customer came in a little later for a quarter of a pound of mustard, and it took half an hour of hard searching to find it, Katherine began to wonder whether after all it would not have been easier to have been left to deal singlehanded with the confusion on the floor, for at least she had known where to find things.

But it is rather dirty work pulling them out and unrolling them, and I have just put on a clean frock," Katherine said, laughing at the idea of putting a possible customer off in such a fashion.

Then as a customer entered the store he went off to talk to 'Duke Radford, who was sitting outside in the sun, and Katherine did not see him again that evening.

In an ordinary way she would have taken them over to Fort Garry to-day, but with the prospect of a customer they could wait for a more convenient time.

But Katherine attended to the red man first, being desirous of getting rid of him, then watched him down the bank and waited until he had embarked in his frail canoe before attending to her other and more important customer.

But he was a hardy customer, for he bounced up like a rubber ball, only to be floored even more viciously before he was well set on his feet.

SEE PHILIPS, JUDSON P. PERELMAN, S. J. The customer is always wrong.

SEE PHILIPS, JUDSON P. PERELMAN, S. J. The customer is always wrong.

Father Flannigan's toughest customer.

The good-humoured uproar is beyond description, and is increased by more farmers forcing their way in from the rear, where are their horses or trapsby farmers eagerly inquiring for dealers or friends, and by messengers from the shops loaded with parcels to place in the customer's vehicle.

The only thing I can figure out is that it was fired from the outside officeperhaps by some customer who had lost money and sought revenge.

As Mr. Innerarity entered, he was saying good-day to a customer in his native tongue, English, and so continued: "Yes, under Spain we had a solid, quiet governmentAh!

1561 examples of  customer  in sentences