shopkeeperess

Example Sentences

• "Mr. Gilman of South Carolina (Charleston) formerly of Salem—(son to the shopkeeperess) wrote the masterly analysis of Brown’s philosophy."
• "No commonplace, rosy, close-shaved bourgeois are there; no tight, trim, pale, eager shopkeeperesses, such as lately sold you bad gloves in the Rue d’Antin, or gave you short change for a guinea in the Marais."
• "While the latter was being sung, we were told how our neighbor had a falling out with her mother just before her husband died, and how the mother aforesaid would not attend the said husband’s funeral; but, subsequently, the mother met this afflicted daughter somewhere on the highway, and seeing her child dressed in deep mourning, the unnatural parent called at a milliner’s store, where both parties traded, and remarked to the shop-keeperess that she had just seen her daughter, and that she looked sad."
• "The shop-keeperesses of England have made the discovery that the proper length of a gentleman’s sock is the same as the measure of his clenched fist, round the knuckles."
• "The shopkeeperess was polite, but dignified."
• "Mr. Wiseman entered a shop to boy, among other articles, a new umbrella. The shopkeeperess showed him the newly-patented Self-opener, and praised its working.[…]The following day he called on the shopkeeperess, whose eloquence had induced him to obtain the new umbrella, and said:[…]"