"Shop" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at the chaise-vamper's house, both the house and the shop were shut up; it was the eighth of September, the nativity of the blessed ...
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman • Laurence Sterne
... support. Louis soon procured work on a newspaper; but Charles, whose ambition from his earliest years was to become a painter, spent his days in the Louvre, or wandering about Paris looking in the old-print-shop windows, and he thus learned much that he afterwards developed in his works. As his brother's position improved, he was enabled to study drawing with Delaroche and engraving with Calamatta. His masters gave him but little encouragement, however, ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 5 • Various
... this world 'all the complaints which were made were unjust[1].' Though I was now familiar with many of the great writers, yet Boswell I had scarcely opened since my boyhood. A happy day came just eighteen years ago when in an old book-shop, almost under the shadow of a great cathedral, I bought a second-hand copy of a somewhat early edition of the Life in five well-bound volumes. Of all my books none I cherish more than these. In looking at them I have known what it is to feel Bishop Percy's 'uneasiness at the thoughts of leaving ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... said one of the men. 'There was a man a while since went into Tralee to buy a fiddle; and when he went into the shop an old fiddler followed him into it, thinking maybe he'd get the price of a pint. Well, the man was within choicing the fiddles, maybe forty of them, and the old fiddler whispered to him to take them out into the air, "for there's many a fiddle would sound ...
— In Wicklow and West Kerry • John M. Synge
... me still more your debtor. By the Holy Evangels! if I were assured the Abbot Aldam of Kirkstall had aught to do with that attack upon me, I would harry his worthless old mummery shop so clean a mouse ...
— Beatrix of Clare • John Reed Scott
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