24 Verbs to Use for the Word groceries

He keeps a grocery or some kind of small hotel.

We buy all our groceries, where we live.

The steamer which brought groceries and dry goods for the store was to take away sealskins, walrus-skins, narwhal ivory, whalebone, and blubber of various sorts, which had been accumulating in the fish shed since the fishing began.

Juliana and Henrietta McNally sold groceries at one counter, and Matilda and Maria sold calico and flannel and boots at another.

"You mean to tell me that that creature has been coming here to see you, and I not know it?" I told her thenagain quietly and with dignity, and without temper (showing)that he had been coming, not to see me, but in the natural pursuance of his profession of delivering groceries.

And he was so pleasant, hearty, and sincere in his friendliness toward both Peter and old Aunt Becky that Peter, even amid the complete side- tracking and derailing of his mission, decided that it ever he did have occasion to purchase any groceries, he would do his trading at this market ruled by an absolute honesty with, and a complete distrust in, his race.

He opened a grocery in Ann Street, near what was then called the Tin Pot, a place full of abandoned women and dissolute fellows.

But she wouldn't let me go to the picnic; and not only that, but I think she changed grocers, for Mr. Livingstone hasn't been here for a long time, and when I asked Susie where he was she looked funny, and said we weren't getting our groceries where Mr. Livingstone worked any longer.

These stores handled groceries, dry goods and whisky.

That idea had never dawned upon us, and we set to thinking where we could securely hide our groceries in three different places.

We hunted all the groceries and couldn't find turnips enough to make a first payment, but we found a place where they grate horseradish and bottle it for the market, and I ordered two washtubs full of horseradish grated nicely, and sent to the tent, but I made the man bill it as ground turnips.

He had carried some groceries to a remote part of the town, and collected two bills on the way.

" 4 Willow lifted groceries from the bicycle basket, took them inside, and set them on the counter with a satisfying thump.

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.

'His mother used to obtain her groceries from your uncle.

" VOICE A lanky country youth entered the crossroads general store to order some groceries.

When the writer purchased a third cow, it was in anticipation of sending any surplus butter to "shop," and receiving groceries in exchange, nor has she been disappointed.

Run, Buddy, run!" cried Billie, and my, how Buddy Pigg did run; and he got safely away from that bad boy, and was soon at home, where his mother forgave him for throwing away the groceries when she heard the story.

I noticed that Abel, whenever we had occasion to visit a grocery, would go sniffing around, alternately attracted or repelled by the various articles: now turning away with a shudder from a ham,now inhaling, with a fearful delight and uncertainty, the odor of smoked herrings.

At the other end were piles of new-looking boxes, containing groceries of various kinds, rolls of cotton cloth and other dry goods, and, what attracted his attention more than anything else, a vast number of bright tin cans, bearing on their sides brilliant pictures of tomatoes, peaches, green corn, and other preservable eatables.

"Let us know if you want any more groceries, and we'll send them to you.

And so the years went by, and John Appleman, dealing out groceries in Guaymas for such brief hours of the day as people bought things, his partner relieving him half the time, hungered more with each passing year to see southeastern Michigan, and with each passing year became more alarmed over the prospect of facing the partner of his joys and sorrows there.

"There must be some mistake," she said to herself, "we simply can't have eaten all those groceries.

Felicia exclaimed, "with all our shopping, I forgot the groceries!

24 Verbs to Use for the Word  groceries