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
By Allah!" replied the eunuch, "it were a fine thing for a Vizier's son to eat in a cookshop!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by Payne, John
Why, there is an excellent cookshop in my street, and I have a running account with him, and so every two days he sends me a very nice supply.
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 5 of 6 by Sue, Eugène
A few minutes later he halted again, this time outside the well-remembered cookshop.
From Soldiers of the Queen by Avery, Harold
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