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"Greengrocer" Quotes from Famous Books

... accident I was determined to be described in the papers as "the body of a well-dressed man." To go down to history as "the body of a shabbily-dressed individual" would be too depressing. Beautifully clothed, I jumped into a taxi and drove to Celia's greengrocer. Celia herself was keeping warm ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 28, 1914 • Various

... twenty shillings, And money has wings; Go first get this note changed, I want other things." Now here comes the mischief— This Dicky would stop At an ill-looking, mean-looking Greengrocer's shop. ...

— Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 • Edward William Cole

... a nature red in tooth and claw rampant in this most sordid of all possible worlds. Now that the Rationalists take up the case against war from another end, they are denounced as squalid souls, with a greengrocer's outlook, morbidly anxious about the price of peas and potatoes, and urged to remember that not by bread alone doth man live. In The Foundations of International Polity (HEINEMANN), a series of lectures developing phases of the argument of the ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 22, 1914 • Various

... greengrocer who, according to the author of "Lalla Rookh," always gave good measure and full count. It was ever a cause of regret to the elder Moore that his son did not show sufficient capacity to be trusted safely with ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 1 of 14 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great • Elbert Hubbard

... on breakfast. That could wait. Meanwhile I fell to work with the materials in the yard. In addition to the hand-cart, there was now a coster's barrow, the property of a greengrocer, to whom also belonged a quantity of lumber, including some bundles of stakes and several hampers filled with straw. With these materials, and those that I had borrowed from Mrs. Kosminsky, I began rapidly to build up a pair of life-sized guys—one male and one female. I put them together ...

— The Uttermost Farthing - A Savant's Vendetta • R. Austin Freeman

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