The shop was also patronized by mice--only the mice were rather afraid of Ginger.
(Tabitha Twitchit kept the only other shop in the village.
Original Peter Rabbit Books
Passing through an intervening passage, she opened a door that communicated with the
shop, just now so elaborately described.
House Of Seven Gables
"In my three
shops here I have a hundred thousand rubles' worth of goods.
War and Peace
In the thoroughfares where
shops abound, the sordid struggle with poverty shows itself unreservedly on the filthy pavement; gathers its forces through the week; and, strengthening to a tumult on Saturday night, sees the Sunday morning dawn in murky gaslight.
No Name
I bought the doll's house, and as they knew the lady's address (it was at this
shop that I first learned her name) I instructed them to send it back to her with the following letter, which I wrote in the
shop: "Dear madam, don't be ridiculous.
The Little White Bird
A short time after we had opened our
shops, my eldest brother, one of these two dogs, resolved to travel in foreign countries for the sake of merchandise.
Arabian Nights
He'll never let it go." Then checking himself on the point of betraying too great an intimacy with Jacob's habits, he added "You watch him, while I run for the constable." And he hurried out of the
shop.
Brother Jacob
'Sir, you know in your own conscience that I am not the person you look for, and that I was not in your
shop before, therefore I demand that you detain me here no longer, or tell me the reason of your stopping me.' The fellow grew surlier upon this than before, and said he would do neither till he thought fit.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
She knew to what
shop we had been sent in Paris, and she now determined to purchase one of us, to bestow on the handkerchief selected some of her own beautiful needle work, to trim it with this lace, and, by the sale, to raise a sum sufficient for all her grandmother's earthly wants.
Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief
Sowerberry--the
shop being shut up--were taking their supper in the little back-parlour, when Mr.
Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boys Progress
The lieutenant dismounted before a
shop in the Rue des Lombards, at the sign of the Pilon d'Or.
Ten Years Later
Mr Verloc, going out in the morning, left his
shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law.
The Secret Agent
'The little counter being so short a counter that it leaves the fireplace, which would have been behind it if it had been longer, accessible, Mr Wegg sits down on a box in front of the fire, and inhales a warm and comfortable smell which is not the smell of the
shop. 'For that,' Mr Wegg inwardly decides, as he takes a corrective sniff or two, 'is musty, leathery, feathery, cellary, gluey, gummy, and,' with another sniff, 'as it might be, strong of old pairs of bellows.'
Our Mutual Friend
Thus interrupted, Miss Jellyby became silent and walked moodily on at my side while I admired the long successions and varieties of streets, the quantity of people already going to and fro, the number of vehicles passing and repassing, the busy preparations in the setting forth of
shop windows and the sweeping out of
shops, and the extraordinary creatures in rags secretly groping among the swept-out rubbish for pins and other refuse.
Bleak House