There is also the full range of greengrocery items. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
Backdrops like scene changes in a theatre of greengrocery. From Wordnik.com. [Market Forces] Reference
There was a van came on Tuesdays selling fish and greengrocery. From Wordnik.com. [A Place of Execution]
The first thing that struck my eye on approaching was the unusual appearance of the Wattles's greengrocery shop. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference
He devoured books, and the printed leaves became as necessary to his existence as the cabbage-leaves to the caterpillars which at times made their not welcome appearance in the abjured greengrocery. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
But when its owners sued All American Cash Register and TEC America Corp. last July over the glitch, the greengrocery fired the first shot in what some are predicting will be a protracted -- and costly -- legal war over the so-called Year 2000 Bug. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond The Year 2000 Bug: A New Wave Of Lawsuits] Reference
As I went homeward through the maze of dirty streets towards where my garret was situated, I had to pass through one where the outside pavement stalls were always heaped up upon either side of the way with every imaginable thing from greengrocery and scrap-iron to old prints and china-ware. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Lal A Fantasy] Reference
Nevertheless, it is still a significant fact that while many of the butchers 'establishments possess quite an attractive and inviting appearance, on the contrary those devoted to the sale of greengrocery are represented by dingy-looking places, and by a collection of faded vegetables which seem always to be apologising for being on view at all. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
Then he departed to see about Heather's greengrocery cart. From Wordnik.com. [England, My England] Reference
It is the same with the other shops -- greengrocery, fish, and fruit. From Wordnik.com. [Nights in London] Reference
JAL's new CEO says bankrupt airline's executives can't 'run a greengrocery'. From Wordnik.com. [ATW Daily News] Reference
His foregrounds had always a succulent cluster or two of greengrocery at the corners. From Wordnik.com. [Selections From the Works of John Ruskin] Reference
He said he has told them, "You guys wouldn't be able to run a greengrocery with your ideas.". From Wordnik.com. [ATW Daily News] Reference
All that we amphibian is substitute for dawn, hexad, greengrocery, or inanimate outlaw salamandra. From Wordnik.com. [POWET.TV] Reference
At length, one day, the broker sent his men into the shop, who threw all the greengrocery about like peelings of onions. From Wordnik.com. [Rattlin the Reefer] Reference
They picked their way to the back door through a miscellaneous collection of kitchen refuse, dirty delivery trays and fresh supplies of greengrocery. From Wordnik.com. [Traitor's Purse]
What seemed like a fabulous idea has become, in reality, a crash-course in greengrocery, DIY, hairdressing and pretty much every other specialist retail trade. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Stokes, a family-owned U.K. greengrocery company, went into administration yesterday after attempts at reorganization failed to halt a decline in cash flow, the Financial Times reported. From Wordnik.com. [A-Tec, TCB, Japan Airlines, Takefuji, Karstadt: Bankruptcy - Bloomberg] Reference
When the Co-op opened on February 17 it was revealed that the society had a "monopoly agreement" giving it sole rights to sell greengrocery, as well as newspapers, cigarettes and alcohol. From Wordnik.com. [icCoventry] Reference
All the same, it was not a greengrocery business that she carried on, but, on the contrary, a little coal business: she sold coals clandestinely and in small portions to poor folk like herself. From Wordnik.com. [Norse Tales and Sketches] Reference
When the Heart of England Co-op opened its new store just yards from the greengrocery, it was revealed that it had a "monopoly agreement" giving it sole rights to sell greengrocery in the revamped shopping centre. From Wordnik.com. [icCoventry] Reference
A Board School was as high as ever his parents could afford to send him: and then he went into the greengrocery, and at one time was said to be going to fail for over three hundred, when this place was found for him. From Wordnik.com. [Nicky-Nan, Reservist] Reference
Meat, greengrocery, Brummagem jewellery for the rich beauty of Rhoda, shell-fish, confectionery, old magazines, pirated music, haberdashery, "throw-out" (or Sudden Death) cigars -- all these glories are waiting to seize your pennies. From Wordnik.com. [Nights in London] Reference
Now locavores -- or anyone who cares about good food -- can enjoy multi-course splendors in the serene dining room, refuel in the comfy and casual lounge, celebrate in several private-event rooms, and shop and snack in the butcher shop/bakery/greengrocery. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
So with smaller matters; so with a good business in the greengrocery line; so with a well-paying milk-walk; so with a clerk's situation of eighty pounds a year; so with an errand boy's place at three shillings a week, which thirty candidates want, and only one can get. From Wordnik.com. [The Recreations of a Country Parson] Reference
The woman who keeps it has a greengrocery business and a registry office for servants, and as such people go is respectable; but I recommend the book to my countrymen who go to Berlin as officials or journalists for ten days, are taken over various highly polished public institutions, and come back to tell us that the. From Wordnik.com. [Home Life in Germany] Reference
One day when the Doc was sitting there, in that corner by the door, and I was complaining to the greengrocery woman, I felt he was looking at me in an odd sort of way … A little later he said to me in the same tone of voice as though he’d been ordering a glass of wine. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Bum]
Nevertheless, it is still a significant fact that while many of the butchers’ establishments possess quite an attractive and inviting appearance, on the contrary those devoted to the sale of greengrocery are represented by dingy-looking places, and by a collection of faded vegetables which seem always to be apologising for being on view at all. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia] Reference
Mr Towlinson replies to Cook, far be it from him to stand in the way of that good feeling which he could wish to see; and adjourning in quest of the housemaid, and presently returning with that young lady on his arm, informs the kitchen that foreigners is only his fun, and that him and Anne have now resolved to take one another for better for worse, and to settle in Oxford Market in the general greengrocery and herb and leech line, where your kind favours is particular requested. From Wordnik.com. [Dombey and Son] Reference
To the row of houses indicated to him by Mr Charles Cheeryble, Nicholas directed his steps, without much troubling his head with such matters as these; and at this row of houses — after traversing a very dirty and dusty suburb, of which minor theatricals, shell – fish, ginger – beer, spring vans, greengrocery, and brokers’ shops, appeared to compose the main and most prominent features — he at length arrived with a palpitating heart. From Wordnik.com. [Nicholas Nickleby] Reference
French methods of making a salad — Detailed instructions for the preparation of a French salad — Importance of a roomy and properly shaped salad bowl — Poor display of greengrocery in Australia as compared with the show of meat — Salad plants in great request elsewhere which might readily be cultivated in Australia — Salad herbs indispensable to a proper salad, but entirely unknown in Australia — A complete recipe for the famous Mayonnaise sauce — An excellent recipe for a herring salad. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia] Reference
Salads plainly intended for Australian use -- Many people miss the present in looking for the future -- Cookery of the highest excellence amongst all classes in France -- A contrast between the English and the French methods of making a salad -- Detailed instructions for the preparation of a French salad -- Importance of a roomy and properly shaped salad bowl -- Poor display of greengrocery in Australia as compared with the show of meat -- Salad plants in great request elsewhere which might readily be cultivated in Australia -- Salad herbs indispensable to a proper salad, but entirely unknown in Australia -- A complete recipe for the famous Mayonnaise sauce -- An excellent recipe for a herring salad. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
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