Sentence examples for small storekeeper from inspiring English sources

The son of a small storekeeper in Wisconsin, Selfridge at age 21 joined the wholesale-retail firm of Field, Leiter and Company (later Marshall Field and Company) in Chicago, where he worked for 25 years and became a junior partner.

The journalist Paul Novick wrote to his readers that the family "had exchanged the uncertainty of life as small storekeepers ... for a worry-free existence for themselves and their children".

By J. A. Danysk and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, August 7, 1943 P. 11 A city couple got into an agrement over a purchase of stamps in a small country post office manned by a storekeeper's wife.

The New Yorker, August 7, 1943 P. 11 A city couple got into an agrement over a purchase of stamps in a small country post office manned by a storekeeper's wife.

"He was a storekeeper," Dr. Primack told a small group of graduate students as he gathered them around a table in a special collections room in the Concord library one recent morning.

In the commercial centres of Bangkok and other cities, people of Chinese descent operate both large and small commercial enterprises and work as middlemen and storekeepers.

The storekeeper carefully counts out the tablets from a large container into a small plastic bag, before labeling it, and exchanging it for money.

Went into store and asked for two cents worth of peanut brittle and when storekeeper went to back of store, behind a curtain, to get it, they stole small packaged candies from the counter.

Storekeeper Ministry of Defence.

The storekeeper was whistling his dog back.

A storekeeper sells them two "mule eggs"—watermelons.