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arrival of many people or other things
- As the animosity of fate would have it, there was a great influx of custom in the course of the afternoon.Chapter 4 — A Day Behind the Counter (80% in)
- Thus, Hepzibah was well content to acknowledge Phoebe's vastly superior gifts as a shop-keeper'—she listened, with compliant ear, to her suggestion of various methods whereby the influx of trade might be increased, and rendered profitable, without a hazardous outlay of capital.Chapter 5 — May and November (61% in)
There are no more uses of "influx" in The House of the Seven Gables.
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