What is "shopkeepers"

Usage examples of "shopkeepers".

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 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.

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

People like small manufacturers, farmers and shopkeepers seem to accept their transition from small capitalists to State employees without much protest, provided that their livelihood is safeguarded.

There, all was chaos as frightened shopkeepers, restaurateurs, artisans and customers poured forth in search of quick escape.

He writes about journeys to the moon and to the bottom of the sea, and also he writes about small shopkeepers dodging bankruptcy and fighting to keep their end up in the frightful snobbery of provincial towns.

From the shops, which extended without a break, there came always the sound of loud conversation: shopkeepers, assistants and apprentices joking, chaffing each other, chattering and bursting into laughter.

I saw him ride along Broad Street, and the shopkeepers and cobblers stood up to gape at him.

It rose over Megalokastro where today, the Wednesday after Easter, the shopkeepers would put on their aprons and open their shops.

Quite often, in Germany, shopkeepers who could not furnish me the article I wanted have sent one of their employees with me to show me a place where it could be had.

Some of these had told us that continental shopkeepers always raise their prices on English and Americans.

The shopkeepers of the smaller sort, in Geneva, are as troublesome and persistent as are the salesmen of that monster hive in Paris, the Grands Magasins du Louvre--an establishment where ill-mannered pestering, pursuing, and insistence have been reduced to a science.

And he gave them such a practical account of his daily life that it awakened afresh in the hearts of these shopkeepers who were deprived of the meadows and who longed for country walks, to that foolish love of nature which they all feel so strongly the whole year round behind the counter in their shop.

In a smallish town like this, the shopkeepers probably knew most of their customers.

Nadine, or Peabody, but she did see a trio of what she took to be shopkeepers and a City Maintenance drone having an argument in front of a green recycle bin.