You cannot quarrel with a shopman.

Mrs. Barbauld's stuff has banished all the old classics of the nursery; and the shopman at Newberry's hardly deigned to reach them off an old exploded corner of a shelf, when Mary asked for them.

E., whom nothing misbecameto auspicate, I suppose, the filial concern, and set it a going with a lustrewas serving in person two damsels fair, who had come into the shop ostensibly to inquire for some new publication, but in reality to have a sight of the illustrious shopman, hoping some conference.

So have I seen a gentleman in comedy acting the shopman.

He was his father's only surviving son by his second marriage, and being only fifteen at his father's death, was too young to enter upon the business of the firm, which was carried on by Samuel Highleythe "faithful shopman" mentioned in the elder Murray's willfor the benefit of his widow and family.

Half an hour later we came out of the shop, the shopman more obsequious than ever, not only wearing topis, but laden with boxes of Turkish Delight, ostrich-feather fans, tinsel scarves, and a string of pink beads which he swore were coral, but I greatly doubt it.

Silks, muslins, chicon-work, silver ornaments, and jewellery keep us breathless, while the pleasant shopman in a frock-coat and turban offers them at what he calls "killin'" prices.

The shopman pulled the trigger of the gun he held.

The shopman stated that three boys came into the shop for half-an-ounce of candied horehound, and that while he was getting down the glass which contained it, one of them contrived to purloin the weight in question.

The boy who stole it, slipped the weight into the hand of one of the others; but the shopman, having observed this manoeuvre, followed the boy who had the weight, who, being the youngest of the three, could not run very fast; he, finding himself closely pursued, threw the weight into the road, and when he was taken, declared that it was not he who took it.

A shopman in the service of Mr. Wells, stated that in August last the witness owed his master a sum of money; he knew the prisoner; he did not bring money to their shop, either on or since the 28th of August.

When I look for a present nowadays I never say to the shopman: 'I want this or that'I simply say: 'Give me something that costs so much.'

" "That shirt of yours," said the shopman, pointing to the ribbon binding of a fine silk shirt, which had slipped below brother's beautiful linen wristband, "would be terribly uncomfortable when it was wringing wet, and soon spoiled by sailor's washing.

I was interested in myself, in my own soul, and I did not want to accept something that was outside of myself, such as the life of a shopman behind a counter, or that of a clerk of the petty sessions, or the habit of a policeman.

It was not likely that the shopman in Tinnick would remember, after three months, that he had sold two suits to the priest; but should he remember this, the explanation would be that he had bought them for Pat Kearney.

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Garth, generous as his Muse, prescribes and gives; The shopman sells; and by destruction lives: Ungrateful tribe!

well they gave me, at the outset, the lowest price they could take, while it never happened with a Christian shopman in Crete that I was treated with frankness or moderation.

I can never get accustomed to his calling me Ambrosineit always jars, as if one suddenly heard a shopman taking this liberty.

The shopman came forward with an air which said quite plainly, "You are a second lieutenant.

"This way, Sir," said the shopman.

"This," said the shopman, handing me something very like a slice of plum-pudding"this is the cross-section of a piece of the cloth out of which our 'Stopablitey' trench-coat is manufactured.

Nor did they awaken the weary four who made up the sentry groupEdward Jones, educationist; Henry Grigg, barber; Walter Smith, shopman; Reginald Ladon Gurr, Head of a Departmentand whose right it was to sleep so long as two of the six watched.

and "Don't you get very tired standing up all day?" It was Bee, as usual, who gave me my first lesson in the insolent bearing which alone obtains the best results from the average British shopman.

He obtained a situation as shopman in one of the large grocer establishments of the metropolis; and twenty-three years afterwards, the attorney's letter, informing him that he had succeeded to all his deceased uncle's property, found him in the same place, and in the same capacity.