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Sentences starting with shops

Shops and offices in the street were shut, but a saloon-door was open, and over the doorway was the legend: Jean Jolicoeur, Licensed to sell Wine, Beer, and other Spirituous and Fermented Liquors. [11]

Sentences ending with shops

The third, I was doing tin roofs; the forth, common signs; the fifth, statuary to stand before cigar shops. [5]
Jack Hancock was waiting for me, and we walked around the city, which even has barber shops. [9]
From the church, too, and from the Bible class and from you, and from the shops. [9]
It seems that things are in a mess at the shops. [9]
The house where they lived was outside Dublin, in a secluded spot, yet not far from stores and shops. [11]
It will reorganize the Pindar Shops. [9]
No, at the shops. [9]
Excuse me, Mr. Pindar, but I'd like to ask you a question--I've heard the men talking about this in the shops. [9]
One of the Pindar Church and the Other of the Pindar Shops. [9]
The windows looked out upon the quiet court-yard, planted with trees, adjoining the chamois-leather work shops. [10]

Short sentences using shops

Left the shops! [9]

Sentences containing shops two or more times

The butchers' shops and milliners' shops on the avenue might as well have been at Tenth as at One Hundredth Street. [8]

More example sentences with the word shops in them

We were passing your shops, and a big crowd of men were there, making a noise, shouting at a speaker. [9]
You've had several years of useful work in the Pindar Shops and the Wire Works, to say nothing of a course in biological chemistry, psychology and sociology under Dr. Jonathan. [9]
But I was working ten hours a day packing tools in your shops, and all you gave me when the whistle blew was--Jesus. [9]
No, I must work up to it by degrees, buying suit after suit of clothes, in shops wide apart, and getting a little finer article with each change, until I should finally reach silk and velvet, and be ready for my project. [5]
From central station, wires to all the livery stables, messenger stands, provision shops, etc., etc. [6]
So the shops will be idle. [9]
Good patriots' shops were closed, their owners parading as on Sunday in their best, pausing in knots at every corner to discuss the affair with which the town simmered. [9]
But wherever it went or wherever it paused, New York gave its peculiar stamp; and the adventurers were amused to find One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street inchoately like Twenty-third Street and Fourteenth Street in its shops and shoppers. [8]
Sometimes the plank walk runs for a mile or two, on its piles, between rows of these shops and booths, and again it drops off down by the waves. [4]
We took a walk down street, a block or two, and a place where four streets met and the principal shops were clustered, found the groups of men in the roadway thicker than ever--for this was the Exchange of Chamonix. [5]
In the shops under the Belfry, the great tower from whence the bell summoned the inhabitants when danger threatened, lay plenty of cloth for new doublets. [10]
It seems there's trouble in the shops,--in our shops, of all places,--it's been going on for some time, grumbling, dissatisfaction, and they're getting higher wages than ever before--ruinous wages. [9]
By an ironic trick of her memory, she recalled that she had told the clerks in the shops where she had made her purchases that she would send them her address later. [9]
It was found, to use the slang of the dry-goods shops, that it would not wash, for there were liable to crowd into it at any moment those who had in fact washed for a living. [4]
Before they came to me this morning I had made a plan to reorganize the shops, to grant many privileges. [9]
The officials seemed to have run a drag-net through factories, workshops, Sunday-schools, and churches, and scooped in the weary workers at homes and in shops unaccustomed to a holiday. [4]
In doing so they do not wrong the man they employ, for they find men who have not of their own land to work upon, or shops to work in, and who are benefited by working for others, hired laborers, receiving their capital for it. [7]
When he saw these things in the shops he had felt that he must have them; that they were necessary to him; and he was partly in debt for them, still without having sent any of his earnings to pay his father. [8]
In one of these shops, where I went to choose a picture post-card, I caught sight of an artistic display of a delicacy I had thought long obsolete--the everlasting gum-drop. [9]
The truth is, these copies were so common, so universal, in the shops and everywhere, that they presently became as intolerable to the wearied eye as the latest popular melody usually becomes to the harassed ear. [5]
Say, what was there in it for me?--packing tools in the Pindar shops, and you the son of my boss? [9]
The assembled crowd then plundered some bakers' and butchers' shops, and was finally dispersed by the military. [10]
We walked about the streets some, afterward, and glanced in at shops and stores; and there was fascination in surreptitiously staring at every creature we took to be a Mormon. [5]
The lights in the streets and shops made them feel yet more desolate, for with their help, night and darkness seemed to come on faster. [12]
Alpatych went to the shops, to government offices, to the post office, and to the Governor's. [2]
He'll close down the shops, and it's hunting a job I'll be, and I here going on thirty years. [9]
It's back to the shops I'm going. [9]
In one of the shops I had the luck to stumble upon a book which has charmed me nearly to death. [5]
In these shops the precious old dears could buy everything they wanted in the most minute quantities. [6]
One beauty of the Old World shops is that if a visitor comes back to the place where he left them fifty years before, he finds them, or has a great chance of finding them, just where they stood at his former visit. [6]
There were many such men both in the shops and houses--but there was no army. [2]
Oh, these insufferable streets, shops, bakers' signboards, street lamps, and sleighs! [2]
Walking down the street of shops, in the fore-noon, I was attracted by a large picture, carved, frame and all, from a single block of chocolate-colored wood. [5]
In a side street near the crossroads where the vehicles had stopped, a house and some shops were on fire. [2]
Foxon Falls is still a small place, in spite of the fact that the shops have grown. [9]
The exotic shops sparkled with cheap specialties; landaus, pony-phaetons, and elaborate buckboards dashed through the streets; aquatic and law-tennis costumes abounded. [4]
The shops were small, open in front, when the shutters were down, much like those in a Cairo bazaar, and all the goods were in sight. [4]
The shops and shows represent the taste of the million, and although there is a similarity in all these popular coast watering-places, each has a characteristic of its own. [4]
There were bazaars, shops, warehouses, market stalls, granaries--for the most part still stocked with goods--and there were factories and workshops, palaces and wealthy houses filled with luxuries, hospitals, prisons, government offices, churches, and cathedrals. [2]
Hylda watched the shops, the houses, the squares, as she passed westward, her mind dwelling almost happily on the new determination to which she had come. [11]
I've left the shops, Mr. Pindar,--I got through last night. [9]
He left the shops when the twelve-hour shifts began--wherever he's at now. [9]
The gates and shops were all closed, only here and there round the taverns solitary shouts or drunken songs could be heard. [2]
They unlocked their shops and locked them up again, and themselves carried goods away with the help of their assistants. [2]
And now she's run away and left me alone entirely, with the shops closed, and no work to do. [9]
On the shallowest pretenses he would inveigle us into shirt stores, boot stores, tailor shops, glove shops--anywhere under the broad sweep of the heavens that there seemed a chance of our buying anything. [5]
One walks from one end to the other of these spacious streets, under shelter all the time, and all his course is lined with the prettiest of shops and the most inviting dining-houses. [5]
The officer pounced on the soldiers who were in the shops, but at that moment fearful screams reached them from the huge crowd on the Moskva bridge and the officer ran out into the square. [2]
There are none of the shops common at watering-places for the sale of fancy articles, and, strange to say, flowers are not systematically cultivated, and very few are ever to be had. [4]
A vast number of the populace ascended the citadel hill early in the morning, to get out of the way of the general destruction, and many of the infatuated closed up their shops and retired from all earthly business. [5]
In the show-windows of the drapers' shops red, blue, and yellow stuffs were exhibited once more, and the courtiers smoothed the wrinkles out of their brows, and practised their smiles again. [10]
There were rows of dwelling houses, once ultra-respectable, now slatternly, and lawns gone grey; some of these houses had been remodelled into third-rate shops, or thrown together to make manufacturing establishments: saloons occupied all the favourable corners. [9]
There is a nest of brown houses, clustered together like bee-hives, into which the few inhabitants creep to hibernate in the long winters, and several shops, grand hotels, and bathing-houses open for the season. [4]
Every base groom must have his pipe; it was sold in all inns and ale-houses, and the shops of apothecaries, grocers, and chandlers were almost never, from morning till night, without company still taking of tobacco. [4]
It has occupied mother a long time, to find at the shops the exact shade for her new bonnet. [5]
It is a most comfortable town on a rainy day; for all the principal streets have their houses built on arcades, and one walks under the low arches, with the shops on one side and the huge stone pillars on the other. [4]
The commerce of Lucerne consists mainly in gimcrackery of the souvenir sort; the shops are packed with Alpine crystals, photographs of scenery, and wooden and ivory carvings. [5]
There was much lounging in apothecaries' shops to smoke tobacco, gossip, and hear the news. [4]
But ere the last torch vanished, its light fell upon one of the brass basins which hung in front of the barbers' shops. [10]
I did not know at the time that the most of the tailor shops had the same sign out, and that whereas it takes nine tailors to make an ordinary man, it takes a hundred and fifty to make a prince. [5]
I was thinking just now, if Mr. George had only been home, in the shops, maybe we wouldn't be having all this complaint and trouble. [9]
Exteriorly the house is a long, low Queen Anne cottage, with brilliant shops on the ground-floor, and above, behind the wooded balconies, is the clubroom. [4]
A conspicuous building is a large market-house shingled all over (as many of the public buildings are), and this and other cheap public edifices stand in the midst of a large square, which is surrounded by shabby shops for the most part. [4]
In Geneva, prices in the smaller shops are very elastic --that is another bad feature. [5]
Your husband is in the shops? [9]
Among the soldiers in the shops and passages some men were to be seen in gray coats, with closely shaven heads. [2]
The fact that in his own home, in the shops which bore his name, no attempt had been made to meet the new issues for which he was going into battle, weighed upon him. [9]
One can lay in ancestors at even cheaper rates than these, in Europe, if he will mouse among old picture shops and look out for chances. [5]
What one experiences in a barber's shop the first time he enters one is what he always experiences in barbers' shops afterward till the end of his days. [5]
What right have I to believe, after what has happened in my shops today, that he'll come back? [9]
One lady, who, I take it, was rich and well brought up, advertised a dwelling or so to rent, with baths and all the modern improvements, and several hundred shops, stipulating that the dwellings should not be put to immoral purposes. [5]
You see, when I ran away from the Pindar Shops and the Pindar Church--I always connect them together--I was stuck on George. [9]
Many people were hurrying through the streets and there were many soldiers, but cabs were still driving about, tradesmen stood at their shops, and service was being held in the churches as usual. [2]
Then come more hotels, a cluster of cheap shops, and a long line of bath-houses facing a lovely curving beach. [4]
Not everybody was hopelessly poor, for here were lawyers' signs and doctors' signs--doctors in whom the inhabitants had confidence because they charged all they could get for their services--and thriving pawnbrokers' shops. [4]
The shops sold goods that only poverty could buy, and sellers and buyers were pinched and griped alike. [12]
The stocks of goods in the shops were not extensive, generally. [5]
Helena has a good cotton trade; handles from forty to sixty thousand bales annually; she has a large lumber and grain commerce; has a foundry, oil mills, machine shops and wagon factories--in brief has $1,000,000 invested in manufacturing industries. [5]
I want to get time to go down to the shops and say goodbye to some of the men. [9]
When the mines gave out the town fell into decay, and in a few years wholly disappeared--streets, dwellings, shops, everything--and left no sign. [5]
As everybody had fled from their own homes and shops to the church, this fire was not noticed until it had made headway. [11]
I remember that first night I ran into you,--I was coming home from your shops, and you made love to me right off the bat! [9]
There were a few country-looking stores and shops, and on the shore three or four rather decayed and shaky wharves ran into the water, and a few schooners lay at anchor near them; and the usual decaying warehouses leaned about the docks. [4]
The closed shops exceed in number those that remain open. [5]
My shops shut down, for the first time in my life, and when the government relies on me! [9]
If they burned down the shops this afternoon, I wouldn't stop them! [9]
If you close down the Pindar Shops, won't it mean that a few more of your friends will lose their lives? [9]
The shops are deserted, now, half of the people have fled, and of the remainder the smitten perish by shoals every day. [5]
The shops were closing fast, and lights began to shine from the upper windows, as the neighbours went to bed. [12]
Mr. Peckham visited certain "stores" or shops, where he made inquiries after various articles in the provision-line, and effected a purchase or two. [6]
In Carriage Row carriages had been left in the shops, and generals flocked there to select caleches and coaches for themselves. [2]
The shops and cafes, which had been thoroughly looted, had their walls blown out, but in many cases the signs of the vanished and homeless proprietors still hung above the doors. [9]
The shops were but sheds, little booths open to the street; and the goods had been removed, and on the counters families were sleeping, usually with an oil lamp present. [5]
But all the buildings are in the Romanesque style,--a repetition of one another to a monotonous degree: only at the lower end are there any shops or shop-windows, and a more dreary promenade need not be imagined. [4]
The world's people brought in the commercial element in the way of fancy shops for the sale of all manner of cheap and bizarre "notions," and introduced the common amusements. [4]
In the Rue Bourbon the little shops were empty, the doorstep where my merry fiddler had played vacant, and the very air seemed to simmer above the honeycombed tiles. [9]
If he was boss of the Pindar Shops there wouldn't be any strike. [9]
It was six blocks long, and in each block two or three brick stores, three stories high, towered above interjected bunches of little frame shops. [5]
Maybe you won't believe me, Mr. Pindar, but it was hard to see the shops closed down--as hard on us as it was on you. [9]
Presently, the lawns began to grow brighter, the houses more cheerful, and the shops were left behind. [9]

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