Butcher Shop

I have stood outside a butcher-shop and watched a horde of speculative housewives turning over the trimmings and scraps and shreds of beef and mutton -- dog-meat in the States. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Early one evening, while it was yet twilight, I had run across the street and into the butcher-shop to get some chops for Ernest's supper. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Just at the moment I came out of the butcher-shop, a man emerged from the corner grocery that stood alongside. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Covering an entire long-side wall of the room were sheets of brown butcher-shop paper from a big roll that Wayne had personally procured. ❋ DEE JACOB (2010)

I persisted with my duties, determined to abide by the butcher-shop lesson learned from my father: slit the ass open and stick your hand up and grab the viscera and pull them out; nauseating and disgusting, but it had to be done. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The butcher-shop mess in the lab was a combination of ongoing experiments and, no doubt, laziness and contempt. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's a bleak book, even by Roth's standards, and as sharply honed as one of those butcher-shop knives that haunt Marcus's dreams. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Weird butcher-shop type scent coming out of there. ❋ Jonathan Segura (2008)

I figure the killer spread out a sheet of plastic or garbage bags and did his butcher-shop bit. ❋ Max Allan Collins (2003)

But she restrained herself, realising the uselessness of the effort, since, for some time the timid animal-killer had changed his butcher-shop and, whether the owner of ours feared she would lose our custom, or whether it was simply in good faith, she declared to Françoise that she did not know where this boy “who for that matter would never make a good butcher” was employed. ❋ Unknown (2003)

No foul smells, only the butcher-shop scent of blood. ❋ Tess Gerritsen (1997)