"Shop at" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... London, but have worked in a shop at Birmingham (what you would call Manufactories, we call Shops), almost ever since I was out of my time. I served my apprenticeship at Deptford, nigh where I was born, and I am a smith by trade. My name is John. I have been called 'Old John' ever since I was nineteen year of age, on account ...
— Reprinted Pieces • Charles Dickens
... by the arm. "Let's get out and leave things to Bet and Shirley. Four saleswomen in this shop at present are a few too many." The girls slipped into the room in the rear and waited breathlessly to see what ...
— The Merriweather Girls and the Mystery of the Queen's Fan • Lizette M. Edholm
... surprised," he remarked, "if you tried to get thick with our hermit before we shut up shop at ...
— The Outdoor Chums at Cabin Point - or The Golden Cup Mystery • Quincy Allen
... why Father liked Twickenham Town so much was that nobody talked business to him, and if anybody knew he was the head of Bird & Roller, bankers and brokers, they never mentioned it to him or talked shop at all, and for four days he forgot stocks and bonds and the ups and downs of the money-market and let go. And yet I am almost sure Mr. Willie Prince knows all about him—the business part, I mean—and ...
— Kitty Canary • Kate Langley Bosher
... I have narrated, when I had passed a year over my 'prenticeship with Mr Remnant, I took up the corner shop at the Cross, facing the Tolbooth; and having had it adorned in a befitting manner, about a month before the summer fair thereafter, I opened it on that day, with an excellent assortment of goods, the best, both for taste and variety, that had ever been ...
— The Provost • John Galt
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