"Grocery store" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... there from the Co. Cavan, in Ireland. The family moved to Somerset, Perry Co., Ohio, the following year. There Philip began village life. How he gained the beginning of an education; worked in a grocery store; became a bookkeeper; longed for a West Point nomination and got it; how he worked through the Academy in 1853; served as lieutenant on the frontier, in Texas, California, and Oregon, until the outbreak of ...
— The Glories of Ireland • Edited by Joseph Dunn and P.J. Lennox
... diameter. It feels very fine and smooth when rubbed between the fingers, especially when moist. A good illustration of silt is the silicon used for cleaning knives, a small amount of which can be obtained at most any grocery store. By rubbing some of this between the fingers, both dry and wet, one can get a fair idea of how a silty soil should feel. Silt when ...
— The First Book of Farming • Charles L. Goodrich
... "Kindly fill out questions below." One of the questions is: "Can you read? Can you write? Yes or No?" This reminds a Minneapolis man of the day when he was about 15 miles from Minneapolis and read on a guide post: "15 miles to Minneapolis. If you cannot read, ask at the grocery store." ...
— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor
... meandered across the main street and into a grocery store. He plucked a semi-petrified prune from its sticky environment and drew a ...
— A Canadian Bankclerk • J. P. Buschlen
... that night to the next town and took 'em into a grocery store, where there was a lot of Tommies helping themselves to the first meal in days. While we were eating bread and cheese and sardines and also feeding me two prisoners, we talks to them and finds out ...
— "And they thought we wouldn't fight" • Floyd Gibbons
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