In the Old West, the mercantile was where one could buy just about everything needed for survival. From LearnThat.org.
mercantile theories. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The mercantile North was forging ahead. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
This is one of my favorite if that's the word mercantile ghosts. From Wordnik.com. [I Walk Along the Street of Sorrows] Reference
The boys will find their life work on the farm, or in mercantile or manufacturing establishments. From Wordnik.com. [Technical Education] Reference
Now, FHA insured about 30% of home purchases as good as 20% of refinanced mortgages in mercantile 2009. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference
Not many cities, unfortunately, have been means to announce such certain mercantile headlines in the stream business climate. From Wordnik.com. [editorial: chattem commits to city, growth] Reference
In a new country, where there is no great competition in mercantile business, and money is scarce, the power and profits of store-keepers are very great. From Wordnik.com. [Roughing It in the Bush] Reference
It is likely, then, that he had no source of income other than family money, although his adult male relatives were all engaged in mercantile operations, the navy, or the professions. back. From Wordnik.com. [Gutenber-e Help Page] Reference
England never reached the mature form of capitalism, but passed into that early stage known as mercantile capitalism. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Is it not often the case that pictures exhibiting such a want of refinement, at the same time fetch large prices amongst what I may call the mercantile patrons of art?. From Wordnik.com. [On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference
"mercantile" terms in which France advocates the idea. From Wordnik.com. [openDemocracy] Reference
The requirements in respect of the Company's mercantile business were yet greater. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Madras] Reference
Many mercantile houses went to the wall, and thousands more were in great distress. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
The reader will recollect, at school he had devoted himself to mercantile geography. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The mode is much the same as that used by our mercantile marine with their signal flags. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
There are others who were officers and so forth in the mercantile marine in pre-war days. From Wordnik.com. [Some Naval Yarns] Reference
Thus they came to have the monopoly of the mercantile business in the hamlet of New Salem. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
And he was, you know, someone who basically was involved in a mercantile feud over beef contracts. From Wordnik.com. [A Pardon For The Wild West's Most Infamous Outlaw?] Reference
It was in the midst of the mercantile experiences above narrated that the Black Hawk war broke out. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Meiggs invited me to go with him to a rich mercantile house on Clay Street, whose partners belonged in. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
One can buy contracts directly on mercantile exchanges, but the minimum order for, say, nickel is six tons. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Grain Rush] Reference
Hence great debates arose in the assembly about paper-money, between the planting and mercantile interests. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
For some clients, the sun set on one mainstay of Britain's mercantile empire just in time to get their money back. From Wordnik.com. [God Save The Royal Fortune] Reference
Some persons must be losers, and in the fist instance this loss must fall on the mercantile interest, and moneyed men. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
We were visited by a mercantile, bustling, comical Japan, which rushed upon us in full boat-loads, in waves, like a rising sea. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He had been connected with a mercantile house till symptoms of a pulmonary disease drove him from his desk; then, by the kind aid of. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
The revival recalls the pop mercantile system that took the music of Chuck Berry and sold it back to us as the Beatles and Rolling Stones. From Wordnik.com. [Papa's Got A Brand-Old Bag] Reference
If you are not a subscriber to any mercantile agency, you perhaps have a friend who can get a report for you, or your bank may get one for you. From Wordnik.com. [Successful Stock Speculation] Reference
Maybe they should disperse those private sector jobs more, what about Wall Street or the mercantile exchange, maybe they are hogging capital and jobs. From Wordnik.com. [Outlook: Breaking up Washington] Reference
Last week, however, the European Community's top leaders shook off their mercantile preoccupations and took a giant stride toward authentic political unity. From Wordnik.com. [Europe Takes A Giant Stop] Reference
The settlers, moreover, were employees of mercantile companies, working for dividends; and war, with its calamitous expenditure, was not within their design. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Madras] Reference
But while the Bank still advances money on the security of landed property, two-thirds of its resources are now employed in the discount of mercantile bills. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
He is well educated, and has a remarkable capacity for affairs, with sufficient experience in business to qualify him for any mercantile career he chooses to enter on. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
"Sarah Palin was a breath of fresh air," says one-time supporter Iris Gardner, who with her husband operates a mercantile store in Alaska's scenic Seward (population 3,000). From Wordnik.com. [Sarah Palin: The GOP's Poison Pearl] Reference
And as for breaking up other sectors -- most jobs settle in certain places for all sorts of reason, going all the way back to NYC's history as a mercantile center on the Hudson. From Wordnik.com. [Outlook: Breaking up Washington] Reference
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