And what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation.
shopkeeping is here profitable, and mechanics are highly paid.
"And shopkeeping Englishmen," murmured Clyffurde, under his breath.
They indeed were so once, but the shopkeepers have long ceased from their shopkeeping.
Sir Coutts Lindsay is described as an amateur, both in art and shopkeeping, who must take up one business or the other.
Farming, preaching, and shopkeeping are secondary matters, to be regulated according to the needs of the family.
Women lose themselves in it as men lose themselves in shopkeeping, farming, editing.
Shadrach knew nothing of shopkeeping, and Joanna very little, but they hoped to learn.
And on the strength of this he would have nothing more to do with his shopkeeping parents in Naples.
It is better than shopkeeping, because the money comes by itself; and it is infinitely more genteel.