Example Sentences

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With merchant-like exactness, every tittle was reckoned up and shared.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 432 Volume 17, New Series, April 10, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

A wonderful deep man, to my certain knowledge, an’ wears a merchant-like coat an’ shiny hat working days an’ Sabbaths alike.

From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden