Lexicographical Neighbors of Grosers
Literary usage of Grosers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Extracts from the Presbytery Book of Strathbogie by John Stuart (1843)
"He confessed also that he went with his children, after noone, into his yard and
gathered grosers, but not in great for sale. Mr. Henry Rosse took him to ..."
2. Publications by Spalding Club, Aberdeen (1843)
"He confessed also that he went with his children, after noone, into his yard and
gathered grosers, but not in great for sale. Mr. Henry Rosse took him to ..."
3. Original Letters, Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal by Henry Ellis (1824)
"RIGHT HONORABLE SITHENS your Lo. last being here in London there have ben twoo
great Feasts, the one at the grosers-hall, the other at the Haberdashers-hall ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"E. and Se., in pi. grosers, Se. also grazer, ... by gathering grosers in tyme of
sermon, . . . appealed to the ..."
5. Publications by Scottish History Society (1894)
"00 12 0 for dressing my hat and a pock to it . , 00 8 0 22 for peggie to buy
grosers . . . 00 1 6 26 to L. rait his stewart held out the candle w' me to ye ..."
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