"Hardware store" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Well, sir, with all that Rindslosh scenery it was just like a play. And the halberdier sits down at the table at the girl's side, and I served the rest of the supper. And that was about all, except that when they left he shed his hardware store and went with 'em." ...
— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry
... the letter to its envelope, and then let himself out at the alley door. In five minutes he was in the nearest hardware store, bargaining for his shot. ...
— Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XII, Jan. 3, 1891 • Various
... front door, and Mort Fryback hobbled across the street from his hardware store. Lum Gillespie dropped the hose with which he was sousing an automobile in front of his garage ...
— Anderson Crow, Detective • George Barr McCutcheon
... like that. A hardware store is where you'd have to go to. We have some very nice ...
— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 • Various
... All I'd aimed to do was to let some o' them folks know that those people acrost the ocean had thought well of our Nat, an' here they was breakin' their necks to git in on it too!... Goin' down the street they was more of it. Lu Shiffer run right out o' the hardware store an' left the nails he was weighin' to shake hands with me; and Jem Brand came; and Lan'lord Peters come out o' the Valley House an' spoke to me.... I felt awful public. An' Jim Beckonridge come out of the Emporium ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
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