ten-cent store

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“Kings and queens, liars and lovers” — his voice rises to a crescendo now — “all kinds of real human beings” — here it breaks — “feeling all the real human emotions. Yesterday I sold this land. And now they’re gonna build a five- and ten-cent store . . . on this, my lost kingdom!”

From New York Times

He was making rich cocoa to be eaten with whipped cream that Elizabeth was pouring into a glass pitcher; the pitcher came from the ten-cent store if she had only known it.

From Project Gutenberg

Shirley brought home some packages of seeds she got at the ten-cent store, and there was great excitement planting them.

From Project Gutenberg

They wound the goldy-brown mass up on the very top, and completed the effect by hunting out a pair of plain glass eye-glasses, which Tom had brought from the ten-cent store once long ago.

From Project Gutenberg

“We can buy long earrings at the ten-cent store on our way up,” said Louise.

From Project Gutenberg