countinghouse
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But many a Yankee countinghouse was foreclosed, many a proud harpooner sent back to the plow.
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Even Jack Kemp got left in the countinghouse to pine for evanescing gold.
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The Javits plan would rely on the commercial companies to undertake most of the coverage, despite their traditionally unimaginative countinghouse mentality.
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He graduated from Harvard, worked in his uncle's countinghouse, visited England, returned to Boston two years before his uncle's death, and took over the business in a year when trade declined 80%.
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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
