provision-dealer

With that intense practicalness which goes with his spiritual exaltation he has appointed a grocer and a provision-dealer to control the food-supplies of the country, has put a ship-owner at the head of the mercantile marine, has given to a man who was a working steel-smelter the unshackled control of labor, has chosen as another Cabinet Minister

Lloyd George The Man and His Story Frank Dilnot

She sold the vegetables and the currants and gooseberries which grew in the little patch of garden, and her friend, Anne Hilton, carried her eggs to the market-town for her every week, where she disposed of them to a provision-dealer of the same denomination.

Women of the Country Gertrude Bone

Peter lunched with the wholesale provision-dealer as planned.

The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him Ford, Paul L 1894

[Page 335] plain, natural person, the wife of a provision-dealer, so not at all likely to have any philosophy, said to me lately, 'I do not expect to have as much pleasure and comfort in my life as I have had.

Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892

No ship-chandler or provision-dealer ever showed her receipted bills, and not a few of them openly averred that certain burglaries of their goods had plausible connection with her presence in port.

"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888

Peter lunched with the wholesale provision-dealer as planned.

The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him Paul Leicester Ford 1883

We found a grocer and a provision-dealer, of whom Tom Rush purchased the supplies we needed.

Breaking Away or The Fortunes of a Student Oliver Optic 1859

"I do; if you need any proof, I will now refer to Mr. Leman, the grocer, and Mr. Irwin, the provision-dealer; and if you belong on this wharf, you must have seen me land from her more than once."

Breaking Away or The Fortunes of a Student Oliver Optic 1859

The provision-dealer harnessed his horse and carted the stores down to the pier; and, grateful for the patronage we had given him, and the cash paid him, he asked no troublesome questions; and we simply told him that the goods were for the school, which was then camping out.

Breaking Away or The Fortunes of a Student Oliver Optic 1859

As winter sets in, almost every provision-dealer, and other traders as well, proffers a compact to the public, which he calls a club, though it is more of the nature of a savings-bank, seeing that, at the expiration of the subscribing period, every member is a creditor of the shop to the amount of his own investments, and nothing more.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 441 Volume 17, New Series, June 12, 1852 Various 1836