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  • The merchant was the proprietor of a dry goods shop, and he always demanded that the sheep be sheared in his presence, so that he would not be cheated.†   (source)
  • In the dunes, close to where Turner and the corporals stood, men had already dug themselves holes from which they peeped out, proprietorial and smug.†   (source)
  • His father had been assured by the proprietors that his new settlement would be safe.†   (source)
  • The proprietor of the house led the soldiers to a second-story bedroom.†   (source)
  • Longtime customers also liked the new proprietor, although they missed the comforting presence of Mrs. Holton.†   (source)
  • During the twenty years he's been away, the American Revolution has happened, the picture of British King George has been transformed by the proprietors into that of our George (Washington), although with the same face.†   (source)
  • Da5id Meier, supreme hacker overlord, founding father of the Metaverse protocol, creator and proprietor of the world-famous Black Sun, has just suffered a system crash.†   (source)
  • Everyone referred to the baby by name, almost in a tone of proud proprietorship, but no one knew who Chun belonged to or where he or she had come from.†   (source)
  • Thinking that it was a mistake, I went out the next day, hauled a few dozen boxes, and chatted with another twenty proprietors while I collected cans and jars.†   (source)
  • The nickname came from the tram proprietors Kon and Heller, two Jewish magnates who were in the service of the Gestapo and did a flourishing trade through it.†   (source)
  • The proprietors had kindly offered them a complimentary room and as he moved a few of his things into it his exhaustion began to get the better of him.†   (source)
  • They owned billboards all around the city, rented others, and struck deals for further space with the likes of bus lines, sports stadiums, and proprietors of tall buildings.†   (source)
  • Later Mameha told me I'd gone to the proprietor to ask for a quiet place to rest; he'd recognized that I wasn't feeling well, and had gone to find Mameha soon afterward.†   (source)
  • I tried the number again while the obliging proprietor dug up his two coldest ones from the bottom of the deep freeze.†   (source)
  • The brightly painted wooden booths selling lottery tickets, the proprietors' hopes preying on hope—"Bank Lotto, New York."†   (source)
  • Henry Kelly, proprietor of a tobacco shop and soda fountain called the Kelly Fruit until Prom Night leveled it, has no plans to rebuild.†   (source)
  • Nye had called on all the reported victims-salesmen of cameras and of radio and television equipment, the proprietor of a jewelry shop, a clerk in a clothing store-and when in each instance the witness was shown photographs of Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, he had identified the former as the author of the spurious checks, the latter as his "silent" accomplice.†   (source)
  • Mr Tetley, the proprietor, peered over the Indian's shoulder.†   (source)
  • The proprietor came over to take their order.†   (source)
  • On a long table, also heaped with old books and papers, the proprietor was writing tireless prose in purple letters, somewhat outlandish, and on the loose pages of a school notebook.†   (source)
  • He was deposited on a thick pile of faded carpets next to Ali, the proprietor, whose spotless lavender shalwar seemed a miracle amidst the dust and clamor of his business.†   (source)
  • In Phoenix, he found, he would not get kicked out of the skid-row bars around Third and Jefferson; the proprietors were proud to have this particular Indian on the premises.†   (source)
  • The food was elegant and expensive, and the aisles were overflowing with great streams of flushed and merry proprietors, all stout and balding.†   (source)
  • The proprietor brought out a live chicken and held it up.†   (source)
  • He has ventured a few times before to this part of Providence, just beyond Helaine's office and the Georgian brick homes of professors: fifteen or so square blocks of turn-of-the-century row houses and squat apartments, broken by clusters of sole proprietorships, jewelers, drugstores, and barbers, in buildings charging modest rent.†   (source)
  • Man is master and proprietor, says Descartes, whereas the beast is merely an automaton, an animated machine, amachinaanimata .†   (source)
  • "Betty recommends the fried chicken," said a pink-aproned waitress, referring to Betty Little and her husband, Benny, the proprietors.†   (source)
  • The proprietor swore, and turned to flee.†   (source)
  • "a fashionable morning lounge," and its large, genial proprietor became one of the best-known young men in town.†   (source)
  • The proprietor of a port side roach coach dived for cover, along with several of his customers.†   (source)
  • The owner, an expansive, florid fat man, proclaimed the cuisine to be extraordinary, but since no one could summon hunger, Bourne paid for four entrées just to keep the proprietor happy.†   (source)
  • Lourdes ordered custom-made signs for her bakeries in red, white, and blue with her name printed at the bottom right-hand corner: LOURDES PUENTE, PROPRIETOR.†   (source)
  • Joe turned and saw the Korean proprietor.†   (source)
  • The proprietor stood behind a plank that had been placed across two barrels.†   (source)
  • In spite of Petra's continued propensity to slip at any moment into what, in terms of sound, would be a deafening bellow, we all felt a proprietorial pride in her progress.†   (source)
  • Everybody, Dessie, Tar Baby, Patsy, Mr. Buckland Reed, Teapot's Mamma, Valentine, the deweys, Mrs. Jackson, Irene, the proprietor of the Palace of Cosmetology, Reba, the Herrod brothers and flocks of teen-agers got into the mood and, laughing, dancing, calling to one another, formed a pied piper's band behind Shadrack.†   (source)
  • Handing Kettlemouth to Cynthia, Lucia promptly knifed through the crowd to beg a word with the busy proprietor.†   (source)
  • He held her, pressing the length of his body against hers with a tense, purposeful insistence, his hand moving over her breasts as if he were learning a proprietor's intimacy with her body, a shocking intimacy that needed no consent from her, no permission.†   (source)
  • As they prospered, the proprietors of these plantations gave the "r"-less speech a prestige and social cachet, often reinforced by the sons they sent to schools in England.†   (source)
  • In fancy red letters outlined in gold it said: GENERAL MERCHANDISE Mr. E. Rucker Blakeslee, Proprietor Besides keeping the store's ledgers, my daddy took a lot of the buying trips to Atlanta and Baltimore and New York City.†   (source)
  • The proprietor of our company.†   (source)
  • The Willow House is a fine inn, and Mr. Barsted, its proprietor, sets out an excellent meal for his guests.†   (source)
  • She paused after fifteen paces; they would stop here for ten seconds, in front of a Turk-owned deli, enough time for Kwang to make a comment about ethnic fellowship and shake the proprietor's hand.†   (source)
  • "No, not yet," the proprietor answered, leaning over the copper bar to glance at the wires, for he could read their vibrations as if they were a schedule.†   (source)
  • Herold was glib, boasting to the Confederate proprietor that they'd killed the president.†   (source)
  • He and his peers did not know they were making decisions that would leave them, leave Alan, as he now was — virtually broke, nearly unemployed, the proprietor of a one-man consulting firm run out of his home office.†   (source)
  • A faded blue and white sign gave the rates and the proprietor's name.†   (source)
  • Some proprietors, realizing that these items were vanishing, instituted their own rationing systems.†   (source)
  • The cafe proprietor introduced me to the Reverend A. L. Davis and one of his colleagues, Mr. Gayle, a civic leader and bookstore-owner, and a number of others.†   (source)
  • What I am proposing is that you come down to the farm and live on it, acting as the proprietor in my absence.†   (source)
  • The burly proprietor's face was red as a ripe raspberry when I went into the lunch counter.†   (source)
  • If an M. I. walks into a shop there, the proprietor calls him "Sir," and really seems to mean it, even while he's trying to sell something worthless at too high a price.†   (source)
  • For old time's sake the proprietor promised to put them up in the linen room.†   (source)
  • The proprietor welcomed them because he knew her well; she was in his establishment at least once a week and frequently more often.†   (source)
  • PROPRIETOR: [to the WAITRESS from his window] You're seeing things.†   (source)
  • I asked the hotel proprietor to recommend the best— EDMUND Yes!†   (source)
  • Mr. Gene, the proprietor, a white-haired man with little dark freckles all over his face and hands, looked up and shoved out his arm at the same time.†   (source)
  • The proprietor leaned forward in his chair, the better to see the ragged dirty man.   (source)
    proprietor = owner of a business
  • The proprietor of the shop, Mr. Borgin, an oily-haired, stooping man, stood facing Malfoy.†   (source)
  • The proprietor called her over to join us.†   (source)
  • "It don't matter," the proprietor said as he put his hand on Jenny's back.†   (source)
  • Thirteen miles southeast of Washington, John Lloyd, the proprietor of Surratt's tavern, went to bed.†   (source)
  • They greeted the proprietor warmly, giving him half-arm abrazos over the counter.†   (source)
  • The proprietor's plump face creased into a good-natured smile.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, Ralph, the proprietor, was willing to try the road to Cange.†   (source)
  • He was now a husband, father, silversmith, and business proprietor—more than he'd ever dreamed.†   (source)
  • The proprietor had had too much to drink when he told me this.†   (source)
  • They were worrying about something, the proprietor said, he didn't know what.†   (source)
  • And that raised another question: How would the new proprietors treat a Jewish landlord?†   (source)
  • The proprietors weren't willing to pay the hefty fee for nude class.†   (source)
  • On the right, he assumed he'd find the proprietor, and he went that way.†   (source)
  • The gray-haired proprietor wore dingy coveralls and a Dale Earnhardt cap.†   (source)
  • Davos called to the proprietor for another cup.†   (source)
  • "They killed Ser Wendel," said the proprietor.†   (source)
  • "Headin' to a burial, ain't ya?" the proprietor asked.†   (source)
  • "Someday we'll talk," the proprietor said, "but…"†   (source)
  • The shop's proprietor watched us from the corner of her vision, not wanting to seem to watch us.†   (source)
  • There's a man likes eggs with his pepper, said the proprietor.†   (source)
  • "Everything all right?" the proprietor asked the woman.†   (source)
  • Do you want a drink of any kind? the proprietor asked/ 0.†   (source)
  • Each store would bear her name, her legacy: LOURDES PUENTE, PROPRIETOR.†   (source)
  • I will do good to you, Jed, Mr. Dark, Mr. Proprietor, boy, until you tell what's wrong with Jim.†   (source)
  • The proprietor took a rag from his pocket and began to wipe the grease from his hands.†   (source)
  • "Let me offer you something," said the proprietor, "compliments of the house."†   (source)
  • 'What'll it be?' asked the cafe proprietor.†   (source)
  • The proprietor squinted, uncomprehending, so he repeated the question in High Valyrian.†   (source)
  • Of the proprietor, so concerned that she might lose her valuable flier.†   (source)
  • They ordered and the proprietor brought their coffee and went back to the counter.†   (source)
  • Then, as his customer was eating, the proprietor edged closer and spoke in a camouflaged voice.†   (source)
  • "Fat or thin's got naught to do with it," said the Eel's proprietor.†   (source)
  • "Don't you have any common sense?" called the proprietor, when they were fifteen meters away.†   (source)
  • The proprietor came over with another cup of coffee.†   (source)
  • The proprietor held up his right hand as if to stop traffic.†   (source)
  • "I never saw Joffrey's corpse, nor Robert's," growled the Eel's proprietor.†   (source)
  • The proprietor brought the boy's dinner and the pie.†   (source)
  • Davos blew the candle out as soon as the proprietor moved off, and sat back in the shadows.†   (source)
  • The proprietor shook his head back and forth.†   (source)
  • The proprietor brought the coffeepot and filled their cups and went away.†   (source)
  • As the proprietor's hand grasped the bottle, he asked, "Anything to eat?†   (source)
  • The proprietor looked toward the counter.†   (source)
  • Alessandro swallowed, and looked the proprietor in the eye.†   (source)
  • He offered to pay in advance but the proprietor dismissed him with a small wave of the hand.†   (source)
  • It hasn't arrived yet, has it?" he asked the proprietor of the cafe.†   (source)
  • The proprietor let his laugh out like a flood.†   (source)
  • Finally Father Peregrine pulled some money from his pocket and handed it to the proprietor.†   (source)
  • He went to the chemist that they dealt with, whose proprietor he knew, and who knew him.†   (source)
  • OLD GENTLEMAN: [to the PROPRIETOR] That's true!†   (source)
  • "Dyin" of old age, that's what he's doin'!" blurted the proprietor as if in anger.†   (source)
  • PROPRIETOR: [to the HOUSEWIFE] You have to accept these things!†   (source)
  • "Well," said the proprietor, "I'd better get my luggage dusted off.†   (source)
  • At three in the chilly morning the luggage-store proprietor glanced up.†   (source)
  • He took the bunch of keys which the proprietor was handing him.†   (source)
  • PROPRIETOR: [to JEAN and BERENGER] NOW, gentlemen!†   (source)
  • PROPRIETOR: [to the WAITRESS] Don't hang about!†   (source)
  • The proprietor was talking in short breaths.†   (source)
  • I don't believe it," said the proprietor.†   (source)
  • Samuel Teece, the hardware proprietor, laughed uneasily.†   (source)
  • ] WAITRESS: [to the PROPRIETOR] A rhinoceros!†   (source)
  • WAITRESS: [to the PROPRIETOR] A rhinoceros!†   (source)
  • ] BERENGER: [timidly] There's no point in leaving it for the proprietor.†   (source)
  • PROPRIETOR: I think it was the same one.†   (source)
  • [The PROPRIETOR comes out carrying a large glass of brandy.†   (source)
  • PROPRIETOR: [to the WAITRESS] Go and get a little coffin for the poor thing ….†   (source)
  • PROPRIETOR: It's no reason to break the glasses.†   (source)
  • PROPRIETOR: [to the WAITRESS whose apron is full of broken glass] Throw that in the dustbin!†   (source)
  • PROPRIETOR: [to the WAITRESS] Nobody's asking for your opinion!†   (source)
  • ] CAFE PROPRIETOR: [sticking his head out of the first-floor window] What's going on?†   (source)
  • PROPRIETOR: [pointing, for the WAITRESS'S benefit, to the debris] Over there, over there!†   (source)
  • PROPRIETOR: [to the WAITRESS] You'll be charged up for those!†   (source)
  • PROPRIETOR: [shrugging his shoulders, at window] You don't often see that!†   (source)
  • PROPRIETOR: Would you mind telling us then, sir, if the African rhinoceros is single-homed .†   (source)
  • PROPRIETOR: [to the HOUSEWIFE] Just have a taste, it's good.†   (source)
  • JEAN: [to the PROPRIETOR and the WAITRESS] What did you think of that?†   (source)
  • PROPRIETOR: [to the OLD GENTLEMAN] I'm very sorry, I'm sure.†   (source)
  • PROPRIETOR: [to JEAN and BERENGER] We don't want any scenes here!†   (source)
  • ] PROPRIETOR: Really, these days, you never know ….†   (source)
  • OLD GENTLEMAN: [to the PROPRIETOR] You're mistaken, my friend.†   (source)
  • PROPRIETOR: [doing the same] Bearing a single horn .†   (source)
  • ] PROPRIETOR: [coming out of the café] What's going on?†   (source)
  • PROPRIETOR: [to the HOUSEWIFE] Now wasn't that good?†   (source)
  • PROPRIETOR: [to JEAN] Went past like a comet!†   (source)
  • PROPRIETOR: [to the GROCER'S WIFE] If the one has two horns, then the other must have one.†   (source)
  • PROPRIETOR: Well, let's say there were two.†   (source)
  • His proprietors liked those kinds of words in the small print on packages because they sounded scientific and had a convincing effect.†   (source)
  • Up front, behind a long, grooved wooden counter, sat Ida Paine, the hawknosed, farsighted proprietor of the store.†   (source)
  • In a small town like this, it was impossible to simply run inside and grab the can without chatting with the proprietor or saying hello to someone else you might recognize.†   (source)
  • Geyer showed his photographs to the hotel's proprietor, a Mrs. Rodius, who recognized Holmes and Yoke but not the children.†   (source)
  • The greatest prize among these was Maurycy Kohn, a railway proprietor and Gestapo agent, a man with the attractive and sensitive face of an actor.†   (source)
  • The Lincolns had given the Fords enough advance notice for the proprietors to decorate and join together the two theater boxes — seven and eight — that, by removal of a partition, formed the president's box at the theater.†   (source)
  • She and Gar located a watch shop in Ashland whose proprietor rummaged around in back and produced an old pocket watch that a boy might use (and almost certainly break).†   (source)
  • The proprietor was a Mr. Brown.†   (source)
  • If for some reason officials of the furnace company felt moved to verify that Warner Glass existed, all they had to do was check the 1890 Englewood directory to find the company's listing, with Holmes named as proprietor.†   (source)
  • Pack us up a dozen of those pork fries over there—in fact, hand us a couple to eat right now" The proprietor talked with the men as he filled their order.†   (source)
  • He screamed, overturning the cart, and was now met with shrieks from the proprietor, obviously demanding payment as he and others surrounded the marine, forcing him back into the kerb.†   (source)
  • John Sparhawk, proprietor of the London Bookstore on Second Street, in addition to volumes on medicine and law, sold scientific instruments, swords, spurs, and backgammon tables.†   (source)
  • The proprietor of the booth, an elderly woman who sat in a chair beneath a large umbrella, raised her eyebrows, clearly enjoying the little scene.†   (source)
  • It was a social custom, strangely enough, that she'd picked up from watching me years before, the polite duty of a host or proprietor in bidding a respectful goodbye.†   (source)
  • The proprietor was also Hispanic, though Cesar thought him likely to be from South America, perhaps Peru or Ecuador.†   (source)
  • I see them one next to the other: both stepping down from the road along which mankind, the master and proprietor of nature, marches onward.†   (source)
  • You can put 'Clem Crummy, Proprietor' on yore sign if you got a mind to, but what it's go'n be called is the Rucker Blakeslee Ho-tel.†   (source)
  • There they shall be taken care of and restored entire to the true proprietor as soon as due and sufficient proof shall be made concerning the property thereof.†   (source)
  • Rearden noted that if he had resented as impertinence Francisco's manner of proprietorship in his office, he himself was now guilty of the same attitude-because he offered no explanation for his visit, but crossed the room and sat down in an armchair, casually, as if he were at home.†   (source)
  • The next morning she found the Stinking Goose again, woke its slatternly proprietor, and paid her for some greasy sausages, fried bread, half a cup of wine, a flagon of boiled water, and two clean cups.†   (source)
  • "Around here," according to the proprietor of one Garden City hardware store, "locks and bolts are the fastest-going item.†   (source)
  • The proprietor of the bodega laid out an assortment of peppers on the counter for Cesar to make his selection.†   (source)
  • As people in Connecticut knew all too well, Prudence Crandall was the proprietor and sole teacher at a small private academy for girls in Canterbury, a close-knit village near the border with Rhode Island.†   (source)
  • "Sorry" was all Cesar could say to the slightly annoyed proprietor as he picked up his change, put the bottle back on its shelf and walked out.†   (source)
  • The thought hit them all in the same quiet moment…… finally you wind up owner of the carousel, keeper of the freaks …. proprietor for some small part of eternity of the traveling dark carnival shows…… Maybe, said their eyes, they're already here.†   (source)
  • Jeremy asked for directions to the cemetery, but instead of answering, the proprietor looked Jeremy over carefully.†   (source)
  • The proprietor looked at him curiously.†   (source)
  • The proprietor wouldn't want to lose the flier, just strand me alone in the middle of this plain of moss-streaked snow.†   (source)
  • Then the proprietor demanded extra because I couldn't display a local pilot certification— something I knew wasn't required.†   (source)
  • The rental had several other vehicles, the proprietor would likely not be inconvenienced if she waited even several weeks to retrieve her flier.†   (source)
  • "What did any Bolton ever know o' honor?" said the Eel's proprietor as he filled their cups with more brown wine.†   (source)
  • But before I could speak up to say so, the proprietor brought out bolts of brocade, sateen, and velvet in a dozen colors.†   (source)
  • "Daenela," the proprietor said loudly.†   (source)
  • The proprietor showed him great courtesy and brought him fresh tortillas hot from the comal and told him that there was to be a wedding and that it would be a pity if it rained.†   (source)
  • The proprietor had vanished.†   (source)
  • There was a flier rental at the edge of town, and predictably the proprietor wouldn't rent to me unless I put down twice the advertised deposit.†   (source)
  • "Yes," said the proprietor, "but once, a lifetime ago, we were, and sometimes it all comes back, and moves my heart."†   (source)
  • And that course would be futile if the proprietor decided not to wait, but to retrieve her flier more or less immediately.†   (source)
  • He turned to the proprietor.†   (source)
  • The proprietor did not seem to speak any tongue but that of Volantis, but he understood the clank of silver well enough and led Tyrion through an archway into a long room that smelled of incense, where four bored slave girls were lounging about in various states of undress.†   (source)
  • The proprietor looked puzzled.†   (source)
  • And even if help came, and came before the proprietor who clearly meant me no good, I wouldn't get where I was going, a matter of great importance to me.†   (source)
  • I turned to the proprietor, a Nilter, short and pale and fat, in shirtsleeves though the temperature here was a constant four C and Seivarden and I both still wore our inner coats.†   (source)
  • The proprietor didn't answer.†   (source)
  • The proprietor of the shop Inspector Supervisor Skaaiat had recommended was on the verge of throwing me out when my bank balance flashed onto her console, unbidden I suspected, Station sparing her embarrassment—and simultaneously telling me how closely it was watching me.†   (source)
  • The proprietor shuffled back and forth between the cases and counters, and as the wires began to sing and the people outside touched their luggage to make sure that it hadn't walked away on its own or been taken by short or invisible thieves, Alessandro Giuliani was presented with half a dozen neat packages, which he slipped into his small leather briefcase.†   (source)
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