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  • He made a supreme effort to learn the mundane simplicity of mercantile prose, imitating models from notarial files with the same diligence he had once used for popular poets.†  (source)
  • I see also the Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles — the CHOAM Company.†  (source)
  • ' The phrase is not altogether unjust, for all its mercantile ring.†  (source)
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  • The man whom he had first seen sitting gravely on the steps of the mercantile store made a sudden and amazing load in his pants.†  (source)
  • CHOAM: acronym for Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles — the universal development corporation controlled by the Emperor and Great Houses with the Guild and Bene Gesserit as silent partners.†  (source)
  • He also established New York's first mercantile agency and presided over it until just before his death at the age of eighty-five in 1873.†  (source)
  • The store was on its feet within one year, expanding in two, opening branches in three, and its descendants, a great mercantile system, now dominate a large part of the area.†  (source)
  • Hieratic or mercantile absorption lessens a people's power of radiance, lowers its horizon by lowering its level, and deprives it of that intelligence, at once both human and divine of the universal goal, which makes missionaries of nations.†  (source)
  • Once, out of curiosity, Van Riper and Klein and a group of about a dozen Marine Corps generals flew to the Mercantile Exchange in New York to visit the trading floor.†  (source)
  • Although Chicago was rapidly achieving recognition as an industrial and mercantile dynamo, its leading men felt keenly the slander from New York that their city had few cultural assets.†  (source)
  • And in 1907, there was the entry: Mortgage, Montague Irwin to Mortonville Mercantile Bank, $42,000, due January 1, 1910.†  (source)
  • The mercantile life isn't inspiring like medicine.†  (source)
  • 'Our illustrious host and friend,' said Bar; 'our shining mercantile star;—going into politics?'†  (source)
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