cookshop
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cookshop
Example Sentences
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When a hungry man sees food, or when, let us say, a hungry boy looks into a cookshop, he becomes aware of a watering of the mouth and a gnawing sensation at the stomach.
From Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use by Alpheus, A.
The little cookshop, with its feet, as it were, in the water, made a small hut nestling down beneath the shadow of the great house.
From The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court by Ford, Ford Madox
At about the seventh week, M. d'Asterac gave me leave to go and see my parents at their cookshop.
From The Queen Pedauque by Stritzko, Jos. A. V.
There, over against the house of the Sieur Chapuys, who was the Emperor's ambassador to this Christian nation—over against that house there was a cookshop to which resorted the servants of the ambassador.
From The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court by Ford, Ford Madox
"Sir," he said after a while, "did you not speak at yonder cookshop of an elixir which dispenses with all kinds of food?"
From The Queen Pedauque by Stritzko, Jos. A. V.
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