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Sands his sugar and brown-papers his teas philanthropically, for the good of the public, and denounces men who put in Old Squareface and whisky-pegs, as he fuddles himself with his loquat brandy after shop-hours in the sitting-room back of the store.
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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These two loud, contending voices, which filled the house before and after shop-hours -- for Eva worked in the shop with her brother-in-law -- with a duet of discords instead of harmonies, meant no more to Ellen than the wrangle of the robins in the cherry-trees.
The Portion of Labor Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891
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