116 Verbs to Use for the Word customers

What is it you want, little fathertea?" He turned into the shop and served his customer, duly inscribing the debt among others in a rough, cheap book.

He can hardly have expected to find a customer in the crowd.

The Tempter there teased him about his folly in losing a customer for his blacking: the boy held in reply that he had done right, and, were the case to occur again, he would do just the same.

Every one wanted so agreeable an amusement, and the Coffee-houses began to be sensible that the Esquire's Lucubrations alone had brought them more customers, than all their other News Papers put together.

How easily they could save their pious customers all qualms of conscience about the weekly shiftings of fashion, by demonstrating that the last importation of Parisian indecency, just now flaunting here on promenade, was the identical style of dress in which the pious Sarah kneaded cakes for the angels, the modest Rebecca drew water for the camels of Abraham's servants.

You've got a tough customer to deal with, and it may be some trouble to git all the property out of his hands.

He explained, did he not, that his company wished to show scenes along the line of their railroad, to attract prospective customers?" "Yes, he told us that," observed Joe.

The host bowed towards Chalier, gave him a high recommendation, and impressed him with the belief that he was telling a polite falsehood in order to secure him other customers.

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.

I think he had never before seen a customer of that breed.

He charges his customer from two to four pice for this delightful mixture which has a flavour of hot-water and iron-rust rather than of tea.

But forewarned by this trifling experience, Mr. O'Brien induced the customer, the next witness, to swear that Crocedoro had not in fact made any move whatever with his razor toward Angelo, who had deliberately raised his pistol and shot him.

He had to start out very early in the morning, in order to supply his customers with milk for breakfast.

Seraphine was an artist in complexions, and it was she who provided her middle-aged and elderly customers with the lilies and roses of youth.

Mark him as he pauses to oblige a customer; mark his oil-stained shirt, and loose turban, once white but now deep-brown from continual contact with the bottom of his tray of oil-fried sweetmeats: watch him as he worships with clasped hands the first coin that has fallen to his share this morning, calling it his "Boni" or lucky handsel and striking it twice or thrice against the edge of his tray to ward off the fiend of "No Custom."

"I've already had one run-in with an I.W.W. I know tough customers when I see them.

I tell you plainly that you will meet your customers one day when there will be no counter between you.

In great variety, | | | | Cut to suit customers.

[Illustration: Grocer-fiend (who has treated three preceding customers to (a) "We ain't got no sugar;" (b) "We have none, Madam;" and (c) "No sugar in the shop"to boy).

" "As I was saying," continued the other, while he furnished his customer, according to his desire, "if a tailor's goose would take the wrinkles out of the ruffled temper of a woman, as it does out of the cloth; and then, if, after it had done this task, a man might eat it, as he would yonder bird hanging behind my barPerhaps you will have occasion to make your dinner with us, too, sir?"

My eye caught the customer who, on the entry of Olinto, had dropped his paper and sat staring at him in wonderment.

The occurrence of "a bad year" compels many a jobber to abandon his store and home for one, two, or three months together, and visit his customers scattered all over the land, to make collections.

The license system had by this time extended, beyond the diggers, to the storekeepers and other tradesmen at the gold-fields, who were making enormous profits out of the diggers, and these, for the most part, unhesitatingly complied with the demands of the agitators, willing rather to pay the fines for breach of the government regulations than to offend their customers.

Almost regretfully Ray gave her customer over to an idle clerk and sought out Miss Jevne.

Glass in hand, never losing a bite, he had already persuaded his customer, by the time the roast arrived, to order not only the new thresher but also a mowing machine.

116 Verbs to Use for the Word  customers