How to use Shopkeeper in a sentence

The shopkeeper met them at the door with a smile.

The shopkeeper stood astounded, holding the two suits.

His father was a small shopkeeper in that town.

Some manufacturers now go to the shopkeeper, and this has made it difficult for the merchant with a limited capital and therefore a limited assortment to survive.

The shopkeeper and Claudia both looked at him quizzically, wondering how a man, so obviously a clotheshorse, did not know his suit size.

The shopkeeper pulled out a dark blue Jay Kos and a grey Armani.

At length Story settled down as a shopkeeper at Goa, Leedes entered the service of the Great Mogul, Newbery died on his way home overland, and Fitch, after a lengthened peregrination in Bengal, Pegu, Siam and other parts of the East Indies, returned to England.

He typifies not the wisdom of knowledge but that worldly wisdom which results in financial success, and thus he is particularly the god of the Hindu shopkeeper.

Medicine was refused by a shopkeeper even for the sick child of a boycotted person.

No shopkeeper nor farmer had any quarrel with his landlord.

It subjected every farmer, manufacturer, merchant and shopkeeper to the continual visits and examination of the tax-gatherers, whose number was necessarily very great.

Usually the manufacturer sells either directly or through an agent to a merchant who sells again to the shopkeeper, but the last twenty or thirty years have seen a considerable development of more direct dealing.

The old lady kept so still and silent that the shopkeeper 's wife was surprised.

He was one of the most conspicuous of the small revolutionary party, chiefly of the shopkeeper class, who formed a permanent committee in June 1784 to agitate for reform, and called a convention of delegates from all parts of Ireland, which met in October 1784.

All the really useful stuff, " said the shopkeeper.

The Asian shopkeeper whom he abused stated that there was a racist comment made.

The second of these stories concerns a small shopkeeper in Mexico City.

I suspect no shopkeeper would take on the task of selling stuff without the old sucrose or high fructose corn syrup.

He spent 10 years as a village shopkeeper, so he knows the territory.

The tendency to eliminate the middleman has not only brought a good many manufacturers into direct relation with the shopkeeper, but in some exceptional cases the manufacturer, adopting some system of broadcast advertisement and postal delivery, has dealt with the consumer.

For each shop there is a shopkeeper agent who offers for sale the products available in that cell.

He removed a hundred dollar bill from his money clip and waved it in front of the shopkeeper's nose.

But he never left Sparkford, though the contrary has been maintained, until he resigned all his curacies in June 1783, and returned to Wales, marrying (on August loth) Sarah Jones of Bala, the orphan of a flourishing shopkeeper.

The consistent opposition of the retail traders in large urban centres other than the large stores, and of the country shopkeeper generally, has been sufficient to secure the refusal of the postmaster-general to the proposed scheme, but a commencement was made in 1908 for orders not exceeding X20 between the United Kingdom and Egypt, Cyprus and Malta, and certain British post offices in Turkey and Tangier.

In 1799 he married and settled at Llanfechell in Anglesey, giving up his trade as a weaver to become a small shopkeeper.

On hearing the shop doorbell tinkle, the shopkeeper appeared from the backroom.

A brilliant red silk sash was given to me by the shopkeeper as a present.

Thirdly, ask the shopkeeper or ring up the manufacturer.

His father, Georgius Joris de Koman, otherwise Joris van Amersfoordt, probably a native of Bruges, was a shopkeeper and amateur actor at Delft; from the circumstance that he played the part of King David, his son received the name of David, but probably not in baptism.

A shopkeeper with red pimples on his cheeks near the nose, and a calm, persistent, calculating expression on his plump face, hurriedly and ostentatiously approached the officer, swinging his arms.

All the really useful stuff, said the shopkeeper.

If the shopkeeper is reluctant to contact the manufacturer, offer to do so yourself.