All 9 Uses of
mercantile
in
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
- I dunno if y'all's little ears should hear this, but it seems he called Mr. Jim Lee Barnett a liar—he's the man who runs the Mercantile down in Strawberry.
p. 75.0mercantile = general store
- 'bout got to shop at that Wallace store or up at the mercantile in Strawberry, which is jus' bout as bad.
p. 99.6
- After several minutes of watching farmers in faded overalls and their women in flour-sack-cut dresses promenading under the verandas, T.J. said, "Why don't we go on down to the mercantile and look around?"
p. 107.7 *
- We go on down to the mercantile now and order up our stuff, we'll save her some time so when she come from seein' that lawyer, we can jus' go on home.
p. 107.8
- The Barnett Mercantile had everything.
p. 108.2
- More than once I stopped and gazed over my shoulder at the mercantile.
p. 113.3
- Including that pearl-handled pistol in Barnett's Mercantile.
p. 240.7
- After he and the Simmses left Great Faith, they went directly into Strawberry to get the pearl-handled pistol, but when they arrived the mercantile was already closed.
p. 245.9
- About T.J.'s breaking into the mercantile with the Simmses, about his coming in the night fleeing the Simmses, about the coming of the men and what they had done to the Averys.
p. 258.8
Definition:
related to economic trade, business, or or profit