store-bought

The people you work with, or see at your grocery store, or your church?

Now and then the boy who had bought Squinty, and who was taking him home, would look around at his pet in the slatted box.

This gives to the second volume something of the smell of an apple store-room.

Bob, the boy who had bought Squinty, the comical pig, laughed and clapped his hands.

So after some weeks of speculation, he bought himself a tablet, some pencils and took up the art of writing.

In this traffic he made money so fast that he opened an office, and subsequently a store of his own, in the Escolta.