tobacconist
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Historian Kenneth Milano has traced Shiffler’s lineage to a tobacconist father and a mother whose family built ships and wharves, but we know little about his early life.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2021
Max Nesterak, a reporter at the Minnesota Reformer, interviewed a group of armed men outside a tobacconist who said they agree with the protests but not the looting.
From Fox News ● May 28, 2020
I asked Angelo Bello, Pedro Bello’s grandson and fifth-generation tobacconist, how they get around selling Cuban cigars with the embargo.
From Washington Post ● May 21, 2015
Jon Sprik as Dapper, a clerk, is amusing but is in short order upstaged by Jeffrey M. Bender’s droll and clueless Drugger, a tobacconist.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2014
On the sidewalk across the way the tobacconist brought out a chair, set it in front of his door, and straddled it, resting his arms on the back.
From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
Some sectors actually recorded growth, with tobacconists, coffee shops and beauty salons increasing in number.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2017
Claims dating back to the summer piled up from peeved brewers, printers and tobacconists.
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2016
Penguin was to be the peoples' publisher: their books read by those attending the universities of life and Oxbridge; available in bookshops and tobacconists.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2011
But seeing how land prices had fallen to absurdly low levels after World War II, Taikichiro began buying lots in central Tokyo, where the family had been tobacconists and rice merchants for generations.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was the wick of a tinder-lighter, then being sold by thousands by English tobacconists to replace a war-time scarcity of matches, and greatly used by cigarette smokers.
From The Hand in the Dark by Rees, Arthur J. (Arthur John)
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