By late summer a sufficientstore of stone had accumulated, and then the building began[…], under the superintendence of the pigs.
2006, Carolly Erickson,The Last Wife of Henry VIII:
What surprised us all was how Will's lighthearted nature and constantstore of good humor won over one of the great heiresses of King Henry's court, Anne Bourchier.
(mainly North American) A building (or portion thereof) where items may bepurchased.
There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of hisstore, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up[…].”
1948,Carey McWilliams,North from Mexico: The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page75:
In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that therebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in thestores, were being widely used.
She saw that there were cattle grazing on two of the fields between her and the river. Whether they were the fields next to the bank she could not be sure, because she could not see the river itself, but from the distance and the fences she thought they must be. If they were a milking herd, it meant that twice a day someone would have to come from Calton and call them in and count heads and open gates for them, but she could not see from here if they were. At this time of the year the heifers andstores looked grown beasts at this distance. There was no one with them now.
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The half-dozen pieces[…] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently beenstored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.
2024 January 10, Chris Gilson, “RAIL's famous five...”, inRAIL, number1000, page27:
Following allocation to Toton on January 1 1996, it stayed there until transferral to Crewe in November 2000, before beingstored at Eastleigh on December 17 the same year.
