As a child she was very fond of ice-cream, and I used often to take her to a confectioner's.
I saw her in Carlton's, that new confectioner's shop on Main Street.
It needed a facade as badly as does a confectioner's plum-cake.
Obediently to her order, we stopped at a confectioner's.
Peterborough Cathedral we also saw the outside of, and I felt like a boy looking in at a confectioner's window with no money to buy anything.
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In the final analysis, only two strong national professional unions existed in 1918: those of the butchers and of the confectioners.
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Confectioners are now getting enough confectionery to give the consumer a reasonable choice between chocolate and boiled sweets.
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I have not come across anyconfectionerwho is upset, looking to the long term, about the decision to zero-rate confectionery.
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Many of us were concerned to know that youngsters could go into a confectioner's shop and buy chocolates containing alcohol.
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The foreign milk imported in this country is mainly used by confectioners, who use it chiefly for the manufacture of milk chocolate.
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My constituent is the manager of a small bakery and confectioner's shop.
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My information suggests that wholesale confectioners are earning much better profits than before the war.
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Children go, with or without their parents, into confectioners' shops and local newsagents' shops.
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The range of private businesses is wide, including general stores, confectioners and newsagents.
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I admit that there are a large number of confectioners who do employ assistants.
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I consulted 43 small traders engaged as grocers, general stores, tobacconists and confectioners, hairdressers, drapers and fancy goods retailers.
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My uncle was a fruiterer and florist; another uncle had a butcher's business; another was aconfectioner; and another was a small builder.
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It refers to bakers and flour confectioners, chemists and druggists, dairymen, fishmongers, greengrocers, fruiterers and florists, grocers and provision dealers, sugar confectioners and tobacconists.
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The opposition three and a half years ago came mainly from three classes—tobacconists, confectioners, and newsagents.
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I have received a large number of representations from local confectioners, tobacconists and newsagents who are worried about the effect on their trade.
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