Word: grocer
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Dates: during 1881-1881
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...Well, I should say he ought n't! Eliza Hannam's child out in this storm!" He rose hastily to his feet, stumbling over two or three boxes in his excitement. "Here, grocer, just send up to her place the biggest box of Christmas goods you can find. Oh! I'll pay you straight enough. Here's a ten-dollar bill for security! Hurry 'em along and I'll pay you double!" And, creating quite a little whirlwind among the open-mouthed veterans, he blustered forth after the child...
...calc'late ye kin beat 'bout everything 'round here, don't ye?" spoke up the grocer's man in a congratulatory tone of voice, which instantly decided me to purchase, from that time on, all the necessaries of life from his assortment...
...called up before the President and Faculty, and charged with being immoral and having broken one of the College ordinances of the College. The facts are simply these: Last night F. had a convivial party in his room, and wishing to entertain them, he despatched me to a grocer on Brattle Street for a jug of ale. I was just mounting the steps of Holworthy with the beverage, when J., a monitor, espied me. Coming up, he asked me whom it was for. I would not tell him, whereupon he poured the ale out on the ground and broke...