What is "shopkeeper"

Usage examples of "shopkeeper".

Within the space of minutes, she glimpsed beggars, peasant labourers, tradesmen and shopkeepers, market women and grisettes, students, liveried servants and footmen, assorted soberly clad bourgeois, sailors, uniformed gendarmes, Royal Guardsmen and shabbily bedizened females who could only have been prostitutes, mingling freely in the streets.

The shopkeeper drops a shoulder toward Brede, who stands before a barrel from which he is extracting small pouches of something.

Dorrin goes back to the other counter, avoiding Brede and the shopkeeper.

She had been an untamed mestiza of the so-called shopkeeper aristocracy: seductive, rapacious, brazen, with a hunger in her womb that could have satisfied an entire barracks.

America, but the Parlementaire orator was able to represent it as an imposition that would strike the great and humble alike, festooning tradesmen, booksellers, shopkeepers and guildsmen in reams of paper, and which would furnish yet another pretext for the heavy hand of government to press on the shoulder of defenseless citizens.

The little shops, the wine shops with their bay windows of small leaded glass, and the crusty opulence of the bottles of old port and sherry and the burgundies, the mellow homely warmth and quietness of the interior, the tailor shops, the tobacco shops with their selected grades of fine tobacco stored in ancient crocks, the little bell that tinkled thinly as you went in from the street, the decorous, courteous, yet suavely good-natured proprietor behind the counter, who had the ruddy cheeks, the flowing brown moustache and the wing-collar of the shopkeeper of solid substance, and who would hold the crock below your nose to let you smell the moist fragrance of a rare tobacco before you bought, and would offer you one of his best cigarettes before you left--all of this gave somehow to the simplest acts of life and business a ritualistic warmth and sanctity, and made you feel wealthy and secure.

New Rubles that few of the Azerbaijani shopkeepers would accept, buying new clothes was out of the question.

The suffocating stupidity of left-wing propaganda had frightened away whole classes of necessary people, factory managers, airmen, naval officers, farmers, white-collar workers, shopkeepers, policemen.

So those ranchers, miners, town tradesmen and shopkeepers of Cruces, with their families about them, talked high or low, and paid no heed to Silvertip as he went by.

The press of the agricultural workers, of the industrial workers, of the students, of the scientific investigators, of the intellectuals and artists, of the small shopkeepers, of the newspapermen themselves, of each and every one of the active components of Czech society.

Forty-eight hours had passed by, forty-eight hours in which Lucas had knocked on doors and attempted to interview SLEEP OF THE INNOCENT 65 the residents of the Karlsbad Hotel, the shopkeepers on both sides of the street, the owners of the town houses behind the hotel.

Suddenly the sleepy town of metalsmiths and shopkeepers had become tactically significant.

She could go back to Rehoboth Beach and try a door-to-door canvass of the neighbors, people Steve and Beth might have socialized with, nearby shopkeepers they patronized.

I do, these manufacturers send their travelers around the most godforsaken little villages, they go crawling to the seediest of little shopkeepers, and do you think they offer them prices different from those they offer us big businessmen?

Henri Deauville, shopkeeper, convicted of shortchanging Jules Beringer, executed 7 December, 1792 .