greengrocer
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Seagoing Greengrocer Alec Rose, 59, declared: "This bug gets into one's blood."
From Time Magazine Archive
Among the leading spirits were our old friends Karlkammer the red-haired zealot, Sugarman the Shadchan, and Guedalyah the Greengrocer, together with Gradkoski the scholar, fancy-goods merchant, and man of the world.
From The Grandchildren of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel
Some day, perhaps, when I have made my pile, And can from ostentatious show refrain, Without the Greengrocer to purchase "style," I possibly once more may entertain!
From Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891 by Various
We gave a little dinner; and I own, Led by a wish with style to stamp the f�te, Palmed off, as though a butler of our own, A skilled Greengrocer we had in "to wait."
From Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891 by Various
"In the Midst of Life——" "Good Greengrocer and Mixed Business, sure living; death cause of leaving."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 7, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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