Sentence examples for old proprietor from inspiring English sources

The scene in which he bullies and threatens the gentle old proprietor of a local gas station is scalp-pricklingly disturbing.

At this point in his anecdote, the old proprietor's eyes became glazed with sentimental pleasure.

Although Purple Sage is a mere decade old, proprietor Travis Axtell is a Park City native and a second-generation restaurateur, embodying the heritage of this special place.

Old proprietors liked the prestige and the power.

After the unification of the Northern and Southern courts, armed uprisings broke out among the farming villages, the peasants demanding reductions in yearly taxes from the old proprietors and a moratorium on debts owed to the moneylenders.

"My uncle worked 45 years for Calumet & Hecla," said Tony Bausano, the shop's 52-year-old proprietor.

Ms. Wood, the 32-year-old proprietor of the Mission District shop Her Majesty's Secret Beekeeper, cares for 15 hives in "borrowed spaces" around San Francisco.

Standing on the sidewalk, Paul J. Q . Lee the stocky 53-year-old proprietor of the shuttered business, peers inside through a tiny slit and shakes his head.

"I'm probably going to do Bradley or McCain," said Patrick K. Hanigan, a 34-year-old proprietor of a local grocery store.

"The world is obsessed with Bushwick," said Henry Glucroft, the twenty-nine-year-old proprietor of a new bar in the neighborhood's boonies (the boonies of the boonies being hipper than hip).

For shopping there's a hardware store, the Clyde Bargain Center and Messinger's Variety Store, an old-fashioned five-and-dime that sells housedresses and hairnets when its 91-year-old proprietor can make it to the cash register.