The shroff was a young.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civilization Tales of the Orient] Reference

This table is covered with a fine grass mat and surrounded on three sides with benches for the players, while on the fourth side sit the croupier and the banker or shroff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference

Gandy never had dealings with a shroff in his life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Gadsbys] Reference

England, I don't think I'd deal with a shroff either.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Gadsbys] Reference

Racing leads to the shroff quicker than anything else.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plain Tales from the Hills] Reference

She recognised Withers and the shroff and came forward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civilization Tales of the Orient] Reference

Yes, it blazes up well if lit with a few dry chips and shroff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Late Lyrics and Earlier : with Many Other Verses] Reference

"Clean-sweep!" said the shroff, in his mission-school English.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civilization Tales of the Orient] Reference

'The Arabs care shroff for your Turkish garrison of the city,' said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tancred Or, The New Crusade] Reference

The shroff was very fearful, but as he was to be compradore now, to do the work of a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civilization Tales of the Orient] Reference

I think an enterprising tradesman got some of it, and a shroff gobbled the rest -- or else I spent it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Gadsbys] Reference

But the old man ---- The little shroff, however, who was also filled with terror, did not think they were safe at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civilization Tales of the Orient] Reference

He left his affairs in the hands of the shroff, the Chinese accountant, who could be trusted to manage them for a short time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civilization Tales of the Orient] Reference

The shroff was clicking on his abacus, and left off snicking the beads up and down to remark casually that the compradore had gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civilization Tales of the Orient] Reference

Withers and the shroff caught the first train out for Peking, and arriving in two hours, made hasty preparations for their journey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civilization Tales of the Orient] Reference

So Withers and the shroff continued their desolate journey, day by day, across the plains, over such roads as are not, save in North.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civilization Tales of the Orient] Reference

The exportation of unmanufactured brass, of what is called gun-metal, bell-metal, and shroff-metal, still continues to be prohibited.    From Wordnik.com.  [VIII. Book IV. Conclusion of the Mercantile System] Reference

Still the memory of his performances would wither away in one hot weather, and the shroff would help him to tide over the money troubles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plain Tales from the Hills] Reference

Perhaps Jinendra felt compassionate toward a poor shroff (money-lender) who can not defend his suit successfully without that title-deed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guns of the Gods]

He stood eyeing the young Chinese accountant, and the shroff looked him back fairly in the eye, and the same thought passed through both minds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civilization Tales of the Orient] Reference

A string, and the little square of lead is surrounded with coins, notes and counters arranged by the shroff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference

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They did not ask the shroff, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civilization Tales of the Orient] Reference

The silver experts are called shroff.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

Withers led the way, the shroff following.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civilization Tales of the Orient] Reference

The robber laid his plunder back; the shroff.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Light of Asia] Reference

Withers and the shroff went off by themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civilization Tales of the Orient] Reference

The shroff will come to ask about his title-deed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guns of the Gods]