sweet-shop

Was your mother working at that time other than managing or operating this little notions and sweet shop?

More useful, and the fruit of an even grander tree, are those ‘Brazil nuts’ which are sold in every sweet-shop at home.

She was to feel henceforth as if she were flattening her nose upon the hard window-pane of the sweet-shop of knowledge.

At tea-time we go to "François's" or to some other little sweet-shop, in order to get warm.

The proprietor of the sweet-shop, however, was not sensitive.