The proprietor, a jolly nice man named Arthur Watson, wandered among the tables and even called on me.

Three weeks later, the proprietor called back to say, oops, he had made a horrible miscalculation - the price would be $92,000, more than double his original bid.

The proprietor called a servant; a table was laid in a corner of the main room.

It is a vibrant block of Harlem that is rejuvenating and enjoying what one proprietor called "another quote-unquote Renaissance."

A visitor must navigate two flights of narrow wooden stairs to find what the proprietor calls his treasure.

The proprietor called his employees together and, reaching into his pocket, distributed among them a sheaf of currency.

The same is true at www.audiobooksforfree.com, which, in addition to requiring a piecemeal download, offers what the site's proprietors call "bearable" quality audio.

The proprietors of a hundred stalls call to potential customers, young and old: "Hey, kid, what are you looking for?"

The proprietors of this game, what's it called, Kilogram, called too.

But the proprietor, with whom I had unhappily quarrelled, seized the occasion to be disagreeable, and called upon me to remove my property.