261 examples of grocery in sentences

He keeps a grocery or some kind of small hotel.

Said I, standin' ontop a sugar hogshead, at a primary meetin, which was bein held in SIMMINSES grocery store: Feller sitizens of the Whig party, Refoose to renominate good men for offisses, and you can pack your duds and git your carpet bags checkt for the next steamer goin up Salt River.

The grocery men there say that their customers taste so much before they can make up their minds to buy anything, that what with gratuitous slices of cheese and specimen mouthfuls of sugar and sample spoonfuls of molasses, the shop-keeper's profits are most dolefully diminished.

Down upon his grocery came the enraged Greeleyites, and to prevent their own stomachs from being burned, they burned the building.

In a store-room were enough provisions to stock a grocery-store and Patsy noted with amazement that there was ice in the refrigerator, with cream and milk and butter cooling beside it.

At the corner of Court and Schuyler Streets in Utica stands a grocery store which is different from an ordinary store.

The bakery is to be found behind the grocery.

There are fourteen employees in the grocery and bakery.

These virtues have enabled the Finnish group in Brooklyn to build cooperatively a three-story modern business block, to run therein a wholesale bakery, a retail bakery, a meat shop and grocery store, a cooperative restaurant and a cooperative pool room, to build adjacent to this two modern cooperative apartment houses and to lay the foundations for a third now under construction.

Last year the bakery did business to the extent of $135,000, the meat market and grocery $58,000, and the pool room $12,000.

But it is significant that most of the recent cooperative failures have been among grocery stores.

A recent survey of all the private grocery stores in one city showed that the average annual profit was only $400 per grocer.

To this extent the failure of cooperative grocery stores has had a beneficial effect since it has forced groups to undertake different kinds of cooperative business.

He wrapped the box with paper cut from two grocery bags and addressed it to: Francesca Malloy, Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

Francesca's husband worked for Hannaford Brothers, who owned the grocery chain.

The drug store, the jewellery store (for there was a jewellery store, and a prosperous one), the grocery storecombining a large trade in candythe post office, and the dry-goods storewhere two extremes were made to meet with a display of hats and shoes in the same windowwere every one open and crowded.

There were boats going back and forth all the time, carrying crowds of curious people, and taking the flood sufferers to the corner grocery, where they were lowering groceries in a basket on a rope from an upper window.

Gentlemen who were not engaged in combat, but who attended to the grocery business during the Norman period, wore a short velvet cloak trimmed with fur over a doublet and hose.

It was a little more than twenty-four hours later, just after dark on Saturday evening, that she came in, unheralded, more incredibly like a vision than ever, upon Anthony March in his secret lair above the grocery.

It was nothing but a slice of Swiss cheese, a fresh carton of biscuits and a flagon of so-called Chianti illicitly procured from the Italian grocery downstairs.

"I was hoping to live with him in his secret lair over the Italian grocery.

A group of men stood on the step, the faint light of the room picking out face after face that she recognizedSheriff Munn; Jim Barker, who kept the grocery in the village; Cottrell Hampstead, who lived in the next house below them; young Dick Roamer, Munn's deputy; and several strangers.

Our wardrobe was stowed in these and secured by padlocks, and the cooking gear, together with a certain amount of stores in the shape of grocery, bread, and a couple of bottles of whisky were safely housed in a pair of large covered creels or "kiltas.

The south side was a gradation of buildings, from the two-story brick grocery on the west corner to the grandest of the stone mansions on the east.

But, before goin', it 'curred to me to call on a Mr. Lambkin, who was raised in Tioga, and keeps a grocery store in the lower part of Washington street.

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