countinghouse

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Though much of his own attention was concentrated on the countinghouse, Ochs also had a talent for filling his editorial offices with some of the legendary greats of journalism.

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A director who sees the countinghouse at the center of the play cannot take seriously Portia's enchanted realm of Belmont, with its fairy-tale plot and flowery sentiments.

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Lazy, fantastic Clergyman Fortune leaves St. Fabien parish, whither he has come from a London countinghouse, and journeys to Fanua, an island whose Christian population is even smaller than that of his first missionary situation.

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Libya's ancient King Idris emerged from his countinghouse long enough to dispatch soldiers to Egypt.

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My courage failed me at the sight of a countinghouse or shop crowded with men, bartering and contending loudly with one another.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein