One gets lazy about shopping.

The first years we lived in the country we used to go ourselves to the big shops and bazaars in Paris for our Christmas shopping, but the heat and the crowd and the waiting were so tiring that we finally made arrangements with the woman who sold toys in the little town, La Ferte-Milon.

We were quite willing to pay the few extra francs to be saved the fatigue of the long day's shopping in Paris.

There was a great sale on at the biggest shopping place in Watauga, and the ready-made summer wear was to be had at bargain rates.

Olinto returned in a few moments, saying that his wife had evidently gone to do some shopping in the Lower-Marsh, for it is the habit of the denizens of that locality to go "marketing" in the evening among the costermongers' stalls that line so many of the thoroughfares.

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During our stay at Manila, our time was occupied in seeing sights, shopping, riding, and amusing ourselves with gazing on the throng incessantly passing through the Escolta of the Binondo suburb, or more properly, the commercial town of Manila.

After this experience of the "surprises" of which Gran'ma was capable when she had a chance to take Paul shopping Ralph did not again venture to leave his son, and their subsequent Saturdays were passed together in the sultry gloom of the Malibran.

"I want to go out shopping.

Then, one afternoon, Eva, in town on shopping bent, entered a small, exclusive, and expensive shop on Michigan Avenue.

Myrtle reached out a weary, graceful arm and touched one of the lacy piles adorned with cunning bows of pink and blue to catch the shopping eye.

And Mrs. Gregg and his wife are going on a shopping spree.

Shopping in, 68. Streets 61, 71.

One morning each week was devoted to her Bible-reading; the others, when pleasant, were generally spent in going down town with M. in quest of painting materials, shopping, making calls, etc., etc.

Citizens' wives were shopping and gossiping; groups of men, in high steeple hats and dark cloak, were moving along the streets.

Along in the last week of May, Nyoda, on a shopping tour downtown, dropped into a restaurant for a bit of lunch.

He attributes it to their neglect of all mental culture, their lives having settled down to a monotonous routine of house-keeping, visiting, gossip, and shopping.

"Men seem to think that shopping is a mere feminine diversion.

"A good deal of the shopping I've seen at my father's store seems to me to come under the head of vice.

It is exactly as if Herr Parish argued: Mrs. B. spends hours in shopping.

The few ladies out shopping bowed graciously, for both his manners and person were pleasing, and his professional attentions were unexceptionable.

So the milliners now I pass by; Though dearly they pleased me of yore; If a girl musn't gush, squirm, and sigh, Even shopping becomes quite a bore.

Go shopping with me, Ownest ownand we'll gush as we go!