| 单词 | drygoods |
| 例句 | I was not at all sure Mike's rods would come from Scotland in time, so we hunted a tackle store and finally bought a rod for Bill up-stairs over a drygoods store. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Eventually, he took a job working for a Nashville drygoods wholesaler, hawking samples across southern Kentucky and middle Tennessee. The True Cost of Dollar Stores 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Her father sold drygoods and, Escovedo was told, he was the first Mexican shop owner on the town square. Alejandro Escovedo’s Return to the Border 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z San Francisco had grown largely through the presence of the drygoods Jews whose shadows my grandfather fled. Private Dreams and Public Ideals in San Francisco 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z He found his young pensioner, Teddy, in high feather over success in getting two hours' regular employment a day delivering bundles for a drygoods store. Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z In one report he stated that large quantities of groceries, flour, potatoes, shoes, drygoods, and clothing come from the United States, but Germany and England seem to have the lead in machinery and hardware. Guatemala, the country of the future 2011-12-12T03:00:29.630Z However, if your business specializes in any one class of goods—such as jewelry, furniture, hardware, or drygoods—we shall be glad to supply you with the departmental book you need. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z Also a nice smooth saucepan, some fruit, some rolls, some cookies; besides the white oilcloth, which had proved inexpensive; and some other drygoods. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z My grandfather, Steve, was the first in his family to marry outside the tribe of drygoods Jews. Private Dreams and Public Ideals in San Francisco 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z "Clothing stores, groceries, saloons, small drygoods shops, cigar stands, dance halls and variety shows elbowing one another and wide open for business, gave a shock to my sense of the fitness of things." Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z Yet in the doorway of the drygoods firm of Hobbs & Thompson Miner Hobbs stood wrapped in gloom; the girls had giggled for him and at him vainly. The Loves of Ambrose We also have specialized books for jewelry, furniture, hardware, and drygoods. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z Her only home was a drygoods box on the end of a tumble-down dock. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z The gold rush, plus the economic demands of the Civil War, made it a fine time to be in San Francisco, and the brothers thrived in drygoods before marrying other drygoods Jews. Private Dreams and Public Ideals in San Francisco 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Then he went into Henderson's drygoods store and, using the promises of both Mr. Graham and Mr. Tole, worked Mr. Henderson into what might be called a state of reluctant preparedness. Hempfield A Novel Honestly, if you would be running a drygoods store—and especially a chain of drygoods stores like I got it, understand me—every saleswoman acts like a designer, only worser yet. The Competitive Nephew A few weeks ago I was hostess to fourteen of the girls from a large drygoods store in the city. The American Country Girl Later, before a drygoods superintendent's office, he heard a youth remark, "Look what wants to be a clerk." The "Genius" So when at supper that Friday evening something was said about certain drygoods needed for the little one, Wyn offered at once to spend her Saturday forenoon shopping. Wyn's Camping Days or, The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club "With the spoiled airs of you, and Willard Nash sending to Wells for flowers, when his father clerked in a drygoods store at his age——" "Oh, carnations are cheap—or he wouldn't get them." The Wishing Moon "I got to do some additional spring buying the same like every other drygoods merchant," Eschenbach replied. The Competitive Nephew First—and of prime importance—was his wholesale and retail drygoods business. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times Getting a position as a street-car conductor or a drygoods clerk appealed to him as possibilities. The "Genius" Her very first call was at Mr. Erad’s drygoods and notion store. Wyn's Camping Days or, The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club The right-hand division was a drygoods and millinery department, with such a display of hats and finery as never had been seen before in Jordantown. The Co-Citizens "I knew that drygoods stores like yours, Mr. Eschenbach, they got a lot of enlightened idees, but I never knew nobody which is doing such things in the cloak and suit trade." The Competitive Nephew Marshall Field owns not less than twenty choice sites and buildings in this section; not including those used for his drygoods business. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times How could he, with his appearance, his reputation, his tastes and refinement, hobnob with conductors, drygoods clerks, railroad hands or drivers? The "Genius" Catlin struggled desperately, but the others walked steadily enough to take their places on the drygoods boxes. Gold From the age of 17 on, she worked in a drygoods store and gave satisfaction. Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type Mrs. Miller was a successful merchant and at the time of her election was at the head of a large drygoods establishment. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI Hang it, he wasn't a drygoods clerk offering himself! The Innocent Adventuress After that there was nothing save drygoods stores, street-car registration offices, the employment offices of the great railroads and factories. The "Genius" Large drygoods boxes were placed beneath for the trap. Gold The house stood in a shabby street and on the ground floor Jake's mother and sister sold drygoods and groceries. Partners of the Out-Trail The roads were almost impassable; he left his lumber at Arthurs', but carried with him his window, a few boards for a door, and a little bundle of drygoods. The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West Mrs. Jamison is the widow of the late Robert Jamison, who had been a prominent drygoods merchant in Pittsburg. All About Coffee In two instances that I was told about a drygoods firm had shipments opened and ten thousand dollars worth of silks and velvets taken. Birdseye Views of Far Lands A little later, the agitated town marshal, flanked by the town drunkard and the one-legged Mr. Fryback, viewed with no little dismay a group of women congregated in front of Parr's drygoods store. Anderson Crow, Detective His pulpit was a drygoods box with the lid missing. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin Furthermore, we got our furniture and carpets by Sig Tarnowitz, which he lives a couple of doors down from here—also got relatives in the retail drygoods business by the name Tarnowitz-Wixman Drygoods Company. Elkan Lubliner, American All I had to do was to tend the drygoods, candy, and drug counters, look after the post-office window, keep the books, and manage the telephone exchange. Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe I am a salesman in Marshall Field's drygoods store, and this lady is a notorious shoplifter. Luke Walton Leaving Gertrude at a drygoods store, he went to the hotel, where the commissioned officer of police had a room. Prescott of Saskatchewan At the moment he called out, the progress of the fight had brought the radio boys directly in front of the windows of one of the largest drygoods stores in the town. The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice or, Solving a Wireless Mystery Instead of settling down with his father in the offices of the great drygoods house from which Mr. Cameron’s fortune had come, Tom, abetted by Helen, had become almost a social butterfly in New York. Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands Stover took the only chair; the Tennessee Shad curled up languidly on the bed, after brushing aside the débris; while Macnooder, perched on a drygoods box, poised a pencil over a pad of paper. The Varmint Along the shelf the opium-scented line of drygoods is available, while portraits of the saints and Neustra Señorita del Rosario, whose conical skirt conceals the little children of the Church, hang from the wall. The Great White Tribe in Filipinia The team gave her no trouble, the trail was good, and reaching Sebastian safely, she spent some time in a drygoods store, and afterward went to the hotel, where supper was being served. Prescott of Saskatchewan It made him look so common, so pushing, so like an Ephesus drygoods clerk. Tutors' Lane In France and along the Rhine Totantora, the Osage chief, had become the sworn follower of 89 the drygoods merchant’s son—a situation to cause remark, if not wonder. Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands In another corner a rusty, two-hole oil stove stood on a drygoods box; above it another box with a shelf in it for a cupboard. Land of the Burnt Thigh Nankeens became at once one of the chief articles of sale in drygoods shops. Customs and Fashions in Old New England But you said you wanted to visit the drygoods store, didn’t you?” Prescott of Saskatchewan Starr had quit the drygoods trade and gone to teaching school on less salary, so as to get more leisure for study. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators That is to say, David Peabody was a drygoods merchant. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen "Just luck there hasn't been much wind or this drygoods box would have been turned end over end," Huey said. Land of the Burnt Thigh "Bet you find drygoods in the transmission case if dare look." The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters The Lost Treasure of Buffalo Hollow There are those still living who remember the Indians who came in to town to trade,—presumably at those seventeen drygoods stores. The University of Michigan One will be devoted to drygoods, another to groceries, another to carpenter shops, another to iron and silver smiths, etc. Modern Persia Very naturally, Stewart got acquainted with this man, and told him of his investment in drygoods. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen Instead, they were startled by a sudden rattling of hoofs in a big drygoods box that stood inside the poultry pen. The Corner House Girls at School Inside of a year I was actin' postmistress, had full charge of the drygoods side, did all the grocery buyin', and was agent for a horse rake and mower concern. Shorty McCabe on the Job Why, first off I has him billed for a Percy boy that had strayed into the general office from the drygoods district. Torchy First of all they noticed that there was what appeared to be a drygoods box exactly under the tree. Afloat or, Adventures on Watery Trails Riggs had carried a pack among the Virginia plantations, but now he had established a wholesale drygoods house in Georgetown, and sold only to storekeepers. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen Mr. Phillips, on her first visit to the drygoods store, described her as dazzling and imperious. David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story They are drygoods box affairs, two stories high, with peaked roofs, paper walls and narrow piazzas. Boy Scouts in the Philippines Or, The Key to the Treaty Box "If they hadn't broken the glass I might not have heard them calling," said the drygoods merchant. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove It had a running noose at the end, which the bound boy was now adjusting on the top of the drygoods box. Afloat or, Adventures on Watery Trails At Amsterdam they were to buy drygoods and sail for Calcutta. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen The drygoods importer looked startled, and Judge Nelson banged with his gavel. Lone Star Planet "God love you, Ellen, little fellow. . . . you could make a home out of a drygoods box." Where the Sun Swings North "Oh, now I see you!" said the drygoods store man, glancing toward Bunny, who could be seen through the window. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove Into a vacant lot behind a store Steve swerved, finding shelter among some empty drygoods boxes. Steve Yeager And so saying, Aunt Faith turned precipitately into a drygoods store, where she bought a large plaid woolen shawl, and twelve yards of dark calico. Faith Gartney's Girlhood Former times that was all cattle country around there, and now it's all truck farms and cotton, and what sort of business could a drygoods merchant do with cotton hands? Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter But father did not hear, and so behold Suzanna and her mother the next day at four o'clock in the afternoon in Bryson's drygoods store deciding upon a pink lawn and a soft valenciennes lace. Suzanna Stirs the Fire As Sue had said, the drygoods merchant was just then passing. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove There used to be a big drygoods store on the east side of the Square, with large plate-glass windows, and underneath the windows, big brass signs. From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine I brought it here, mended it, and fastened on it this drygoods box. Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue Giving a Show At the north end a crowd had gathered and from a drygoods box a speaker was haranguing them. Destiny Very few vegetables are grown for the table and there is little milk, butter or eggs for home use or exchange for groceries or drygoods at the store. The First Book of Farming It should be made of a sizeable drygoods box, with shelves, and the top padded and covered to match the drapery. The Complete Home As Hiram differed totally from Mr. Tenant, so did the drygoods jobbing merchant from the Doctor. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy There was a time once in the old simple individual days when drygoods stores could be human. Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy "No fun in giving a girl a lot of drygoods—make it ice-cream." Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays Long since the drygoods box had disappeared which had served as the only depository of mail. Children of the Market Place One was simply an enlarged drygoods box with a few windows and doors broken into its sides—altogether a hideous disfigurement to the charming spot on which it was erected. The Complete Home I nailed my few books up in a drygoods box and left them in care of Professor Langworth's housekeeper, the former having gone away to Colorado for the summer. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative When machinery was invented and when organization was invented—machines of people—drygoods stores became vast selling machines. Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy Across the way was a large drygoods store, in one of the windows of which were many hats and other things for girls and ladies to wear. The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City They are to be found in every city, large and small, engaged in mercantile pursuits, especially in the drygoods and the clothing business. Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making They also had another guest in the big automobile who took up a deal of the attention of the drygoods merchant and Mrs. Murchiston. Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund A stout drygoods box, which can be bought for a trifle, answers well for this purpose, after a little "tinkering" to form a trap door. Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 We then faced the problem of making a drygoods store with twenty-five hundred clerks in it as human as a drygoods store with fifteen. Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy The physicians find time to go to Milwaukee on excursions, serve as jurors in justice courts, sit around on drygoods boxes, and beg tobacco, chew gum, and swap lies. Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891 I saw a huge drygoods box filled to the top with the flat skins of slaughtered innocents, 260 in number, that a rascal had collected and was offering at fifty cents each. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation One of them rolled a drygoods box from the store. An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) Chairs, drygoods boxes, rough shelves of his own making, and a few baskets sufficed him. A Spinner in the Sun "Uncle Mose," said a drummer, addressing an old colored man seated on a drygoods box in front of the village store, "they tell me that you remember seeing George Washington—am I mistaken?" Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations Law, drygoods, liquor, blacksmithing, carpentry, education, painting and glazing, medicine, dentistry, tinware, and other comforts of civilization, were all to be had on reasonable terms. Round the Block The new store when thrown open would mark an epoch in the retail drygoods business of the city, the order began. Cheerful—By Request Mrs. Cody and the baby were sitting on a drygoods box when I rode up to the store. An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) Paid cheques for household expenses I and drygoods bills were all recorded and deducted. Her Father's Daughter He had by this time climbed up from his bottle-washing to be a clerk in a drygoods store in Washington; but he was still poor and as unpractical as most inventors. The History of the Telephone The man who got shot ran into a hardware store, ran through the store and out into the alley, up the alley a few doors, then ran back into a drygoods store. The Life of Me; an autobiography She had neglected to congratulate Charley upon having been promoted from the grocery department of Commings's store to the drygoods department. The Song of the Lark Suddenly, however, he discovered her feet on the drygoods box, about on a level with his head. The Story of a Pioneer I have started with the four—drygoods, groceries, shoes, and stationery. Dear Enemy They went to a drygoods store and when a clerk asked what they wanted to see neither of them knew, so they stepped aside and held a whispered consultation. A Girl of the Limberlost He went as far as Stamford and worked there for years in a drygoods store. The Life of Me; an autobiography At dinner time they had the drygoods buyer in to sign as witness. Windy McPherson's Son This was the best store we had come across yet; it had everything in it, in small quantities, from anvils and drygoods all the way down to fish and pinchbeck jewelry. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 6. There was empty drygoods boxes under the awnings, and loafers roosting on them all day long, whittling them with their Barlow knives; and chawing tobacco, and gaping and yawning and stretching—a mighty ornery lot. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 21 to 25 Josiah brought in the large drygoods box, which he opened, and together Jaffray and Renestine took out the books, dusted them and placed them on the shelves built in one side of the wall. The Little Immigrant A little note here, Joel was working in Stamford in a drygoods store in those days. The Life of Me; an autobiography The drygoods merchant scurried about the country, going to Washington and to the capitals of the individual states, pulling wires, appealing to patriotism and state pride, taking big orders at fat prices. Windy McPherson's Son Once a young drygoods clerk who lived there induced her to sit with him on the steps before the house. Triumph of the Egg, and Other Stories Where in the world did you come from—hiding in that drygoods box, eh? The Outdoor Chums The First Tour of the Rod, Gun and Camera Club Then I knocked open a box and showed him assorted drygoods, and says, 'What do you say?' The Belted Seas The hotel is much like the houses, and appears to have been made of dirt, and a few drygoods boxes. Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 But these things did not necessarily mean that he was to be a great artist—thousands of drygoods-clerks have sketched and been drygoods- clerks to the end of their days. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists The drygoods clerk was alarmed and ran upstairs to his own room. Triumph of the Egg, and Other Stories Yes, you're right," chimed in the drygoods man, "but even then, try as hard as he will, the merchant can't get justice, sometimes. Tales of the Road There was Mr. Sam Gordon, who kept the grocery, Jacob Reinberg, who sold drygoods and notions, and little Mrs. Redden, who kept a candy and toy store. Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue The big stores sometimes do not advertise at all; because people look with the same suspicion on advertising drygoods and clothing merchants as we in America look upon advertising lawyers and doctors. The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me Not long after he had returned from the European trip he stopped one afternoon in the one exclusive drygoods store in State Street to purchase a tie. The Titan Someone, perhaps the drygoods clerk, had talked to the landlady and she acted at once. Triumph of the Egg, and Other Stories The next time I saw the drygoods man I asked him how he came out on that bet. Tales of the Road I started a drygoods store on Market Square, and I prospered well. The Valley of Fear Yes, a shop you call it here; say a drygoods—" "Drygoods? Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail In the following year two expeditions set forth, carrying out cottons and other drygoods to exchange for horses, mules, furs, and silver. The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway Then suddenly an ex-keeper of a drygoods store in Maine crossed his path. The Age of Big Business; a chronicle of the captains of industry The worst feature of turning down an order," said the drygoods man, "is that when you have an order turned down you also have a customer turned away. Tales of the Road It is the fifth boot and shoe market in the United States, the largest candy and cracker manufacturing city in the South, and does an enormous wholesale drygoods, grocery, and drug business. Strictly business: more stories of the four million It was the proud possessor of a drygoods house in 1783. The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway |
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