nut-shop

Updated: May 14, 2025

Just as speculation was at its greatest height on this head, the monkey of a Savoyard escaped from its string, and concealed himself in a nut-shop, a few doors distant from the banking-house of the firm, where a crowd of Jew boys collected to witness its antics.

James Fenimore Cooper - The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas