Jessup's began to drop in to look at the dry-goods.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862] Reference

He found no pleasure in seeing packages of dry-goods walk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

After leaving school he entered a dry-goods store in the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1884] Reference

But the girl was engaged to a dry-goods merchant, named McNeil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference

Personally, the dry-goods merchant did not much care for such an outing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference

He informed me that he did a 'right smart' business; bought dry-goods in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Fellow-passenger, a Boston dry-goods dealer, travelling to collect bills.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference

I paced Fifth Avenue; I went to the dry-goods stores; I attended the theatres.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference

"We're going to wait and see," says Ian Jape, who has a small dry-goods store.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peace Unrequited] Reference

Now, they are peddled out at half price in exchange for dry-goods and groceries.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

He entered a dry-goods store, where he saw a fly on the hand of the shop-keeper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference

In 1841, Williams came to London, and entered the dry-goods house of Hitchcock and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1884] Reference

Get the local dry-goods or department store to lend different kinds of dress forms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles and Clothing] Reference

Here he opened a dry-goods business which grew to mammoth proportions for those days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

Over in an unused corner, for the garret was very large, stood a big dry-goods box that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Girls A Home Story] Reference

At lunch-time I stopped in at a large dry-goods store to attend to my wife's commission.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature] Reference

He clambered back into the dry-goods box and renewed his guileless operations on the baby.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference

It is not to be a dry-goods 'store in the first place, and above all things let us be original.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story] Reference

And certainly, Theodosia Baxter, you were never made to live next to that little dry-goods box.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings] Reference

The one place in the world where a man has no business to be is the inside of a dry-goods shop.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference

The child, in a fever of suspense, had watched the transaction from behind a pile of dry-goods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir] Reference

Last spring she was employed in a dry-goods store in Detroit, where she became acquainted with a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference

Ruth merely nodded; but Fred Hatfield scowled at the dry-goods merchant and turned away his head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference

He passed his time running about to jewellers and dry-goods dealers, inventing gifts and surprises.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The little dry-goods box full of children was a small, vague blur, a little darker than the darkness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings] Reference

Their incomes, in fact, are usually such as a well-paid bank-clerk or dry-goods salesman would despise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference

In the business world of New York there was known at that time a pair of brothers; they were in dry-goods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stage Confidences] Reference

He was salesman in a dry-goods store, and was required by his employer to do things which he felt not to be right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amos Huntingdon] Reference

There was one dry-goods store still kept open in Newnan, but few ladies had the inclination or the means to go shopping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War] Reference

There was a decent procedure; and it was felt that Bofield -- he was dry-goods, too -- in putting in an elevator was just.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Imperialist] Reference

Sometimes they looked like small dry-goods boxes in the distance, sometimes they seemed to have moved up to the very door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference

The fronts of the houses are festooned with raiment of all kinds, until they look like tents made of variegated dry-goods.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference

A few remnants of domestic prints and muslins, together with stray fragments of broadcloth, constituted his stock of dry-goods.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1] Reference

The retail business was entirely abandoned, and Claflin at once sprung to the front as the leading wholesale dry-goods merchant of America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

A headless Spaniard guarded it with great vigilance, but would, it appeared, be driven away if Smith should shake millinery and dry-goods bills at him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference

Dying children and weeping mothers were found in some house of every street, and whenever you entered a dry-goods store, you were sure to find people buying mourning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms] Reference