He led me through the counting-room, to an apartment up a flight of stairs; before ascending, however, he looked into the book in which the foreign-visaged clerk was writing, and, seemingly not satisfied with the manner in which he was executing his task, he gave him two or three cuffs, telling him at the same time that he deserved crucifixion. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I entered a counting-room, in which a solitary clerk, with a foreign look, was writing. ❋ Unknown (2004)
With a quick step I entered the counting-room, where, notwithstanding the earliness of the hour, I found the clerk, busied as usual at his desk. ❋ Unknown (2004)
It may have been swept out of a bank or caught up by the wind from some counting-room table. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He selected from the counting-room a big, hulking youth by the name of McGlooral, with the acquired prefix of “Smiggy.” ❋ Unknown (2003)
Less swart in aspect, the companions of this figure were of that vivid, tiger-yellow complexion peculiar to some of the aboriginal natives of the Manillas; — a race notorious for a certain diabolism of subtilty, and by some honest white mariners supposed to be the paid spies and secret confidential agents on the water of the devil, their lord, whose counting-room they suppose to be elsewhere. ❋ Unknown (2002)
I did know him _well_, and it was on the evening of the day that notice was written, and just one month after David had followed his only son to the grave, that I, a boy of sixteen, with my hat in my hand, entered the inner office of the old counting-room to which I have already introduced the reader. ❋ Various (N/A)
"Gone across the lake with Nell and Mr. Laudersdale for a letter," replied Master Fred Heath, who had returned that afternoon from the counting-room, with his employer, and now sauntered by. ❋ Various (N/A)
He even went so far as to say he was so well satisfied with my appearance, that if I would accompany him to a counting-room on an adjoining wharf, he would ship me without asking further questions, and advance a month's wages on the spot. ❋ John Sherburne Sleeper (N/A)
He was quick of apprehension, well informed; and his familiarity with the counting-room of Mr. Brindlock had given him a business promptitude that was specially agreeable to the Doctor, whose habits in that regard were of woful slackness. ❋ Various (N/A)
They pine for adventure and must go to Pike's Peak; had rather die by the hatchet of the Pawnee than sit all day and every day at the counting-room desk. ❋ Samuel McChord Crothers (N/A)
In 1836, he came to Cleveland, and after an experience in a counting-room one season, he concluded that he was better adapted for a literary life. ❋ Maurice [Unknown Role] Joblin (N/A)
He knew that there he should find him more at his ease, more off his guard, and in a state of mind better adapted to considering his case socially and in a friendly manner than in the counting-room. ❋ Various (N/A)
Inquiring for him in the counting-room, I was told by his book-keeper to follow the stairs to the top of the store, and I should find him. ❋ Various (N/A)
When giving we're forgetting the counting-room and mart, and all the work-day fretting -- and this improves the heart; forgetting bonds and leases, and every sordid goal -- this sort of thing increases the stature of the soul! ❋ Walt Mason (N/A)
It is also a fact worthy of notice and imitation, that Mr. Lester has always given strict personal attention to all the details of his business knowing them all from the cellar to the counting-room, in the latter of which places he is most thoroughly at home. ❋ Maurice [Unknown Role] Joblin (N/A)
Mr. Townsend has served a full apprenticeship to the business in which he is now engaged, and is familiar with all its details from the cellar to the counting-room. ❋ Maurice [Unknown Role] Joblin (N/A)
He could well understand his (Mr. Ruse's) desire to return to his counting-room and his fireside free of the burdens and anxieties incident to a great trust. ❋ Lemuel Ely Quigg (N/A)
I breakfasted, read my paper, smoked my cigar, and walked leisurely to my counting-room. ❋ Various (N/A)
As she turned to go up the old stairway, her heart again failed her, but summoning all her strength, she at last entered the old counting-room. ❋ Various (N/A)
