Usage examples (32)

• So stark and grim was the fortress that it was often mistaken by visitors for either a prison or a countinghouse.
• My father had planted it for my mother, and built her a pretty stillroom that backed on to the wall of the countinghouse.
• It was quite a picture to keep in mind for anyone crossing the river to clerk in a countinghouse or sit the long day at a sewing machine.
• No paunch, no jowl, no ponderous dignity of the countinghouse or of civic office, no hint indeed of pomp or affluence, marked the Lord Mayor of Bellacita.