He was a retired tradesman-one who had made his modest fortune in a charcuterie and had invested it in house property.
"Blind Love"
Wilkie Collins
Bidoux, who, during Fleurette's illness, had allowed her green grocery business to be personally conducted to the deuce by a youth of sixteen very much in love with the lady who sold sausages and other charcuterie next door, had spread out the fortune-telling cards on the bed and was prophesying mendaciously.
"The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol"
William J. Locke
There was no time to deal with this question either; no time, in short, to do anything but rush forward on a great gale of plans and preparations, in the course of which she whirled Nick forth to buy some charcuterie for luncheon, and telephone to Fontainebleau.
"The Glimpses of the Moon"
Edith Wharton