"Drygoods" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... unknown, you can hang out the waste paper sign and send me to the scows. Look at the mess I makes of this here Mallory business! Why, first off I has him billed for a Percy boy that had strayed into the general office from the drygoods district. He had a filin' job in the bond room, and when he drew his envelope on Saturdays it must have set the Corrugated Trust back for as much as ...
— Torchy • Sewell Ford
... very well, Mr Bullfrog,' said my wife, slily; 'but in that case where would have been the five thousand dollars which are to stock your drygoods' store?' ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. • Various
... rows was his merchandise. Tom Barnaby never bothered with fixtures and showcases. Chairs, drygoods boxes, rough shelves of his own making, and ...
— A Spinner in the Sun • Myrtle Reed
... spirit, doing his utmost to drive Hepzibah mad, unrolled before her imagination a kind of panorama, representing the great thoroughfare of a city all astir with customers. So many and so magnificent shops as there were! Groceries, toy-shops, drygoods stores, with their immense panes of plate-glass, their gorgeous fixtures, their vast and complete assortments of merchandise, in which fortunes had been invested; and those noble mirrors at the farther end of each establishment, doubling all this wealth by a brightly burnished ...
— The House of the Seven Gables • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... barking and snarling and yelping at my witness. The drygoods importer looked startled, and Judge Nelson ...
— Lone Star Planet • Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire
... occasionally visited Pecos were not well received. They were not abused; they were simply ignored. When not otherwise occupied, the average Pecosite had too much whittling on hand to find time to "'tend meetin'"; of this every pine drygoods box in the town bore mute evidence, its fair sides covered with innumerable rude ...
— The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier • Edgar Beecher Bronson |
