So stark and grim was the fortress that it was often mistaken by visitors for either a prison or a countinghouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragons of a Fallen Sun]

My father had planted it for my mother, and built her a pretty stillroom that backed on to the wall of the countinghouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: I, Coriander by Sally Gardner] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Bridge] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Stories]

His satellites — the senior clerk, a countinghouse clerk, a scullery maid, a cook, two old women, a little pageboy, the coachman, and various domestic serfs — were seeing him off.    From Wordnik.com.  [War and Peace] Reference

Axe — which is not a very lively spot — with a sobbing gaslight in the countinghouse window, and a burglarious stream of fog creeping in to strangle it through the keyhole of the main door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Mutual Friend] Reference

Earlier in the eighteenth century the street became famous as the site of John Law's countinghouse, and intimations of financial speculation and potential ruin continued through the century, via the goldsmiths 'shops and gambling houses located there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference

And not only came into the countinghouse, but, finding himself alone there with Bella and her father, rushed at Bella and caught her in his arms, with the rapturous words ‘My dear, dear girl; my gallant, generous, disinterested, courageous, noble girl!’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Mutual Friend] Reference

His satellites -- the senior clerk, a countinghouse clerk, a scullery maid.    From Wordnik.com.  [War and Peace] Reference

"Do you know your little Vanya's with me, a clerk in the countinghouse at Pokrovskoe.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna Karenina] Reference

Coupons and drawn bonds are payable in sterling at the countinghouse of the issuing firm.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Finance] Reference

We gathered our raw levies from the factory and the field and the countinghouse and the farm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tie That Binds] Reference

Things would be much better if he were only content to let William manage at the countinghouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Java Head] Reference

In the midst of this a message came from the countinghouse of Ammidon, Ammidon and Saltonstone that the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Java Head] Reference

"I suppose I've been a damned nuisance about the countinghouse for a long time," he pronounced, turning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Java Head] Reference

Art drooping under thy load, bemoiled with butcher's bills at home and ingots (not thine!) in the countinghouse?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

Or they can reinvent themselves as a combination of Ebenezer Scrooge and George McGovern, withdrawing from the world to a countinghouse America.    From Wordnik.com.  [washingtonpost.com -] Reference

His family were always providing against his fatigue or excitement; at the countinghouse the gravest problems, he was certain, were withheld from him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Java Head] Reference

That their enterprise might succeed, they must show a balance on the right side of the countinghouse ledger, as well as in their private accounts with their own souls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among My Books First Series] Reference

What an inexplicable accident or crime, he thought, hurriedly approaching the countinghouse of Ammidon, Ammidon and Saltonstone, the first and nearest of the places to which he must go.    From Wordnik.com.  [Java Head] Reference

Well, when Barnaby True was between sixteen and seventeen years old he was taken into employment in the countinghouse of Mr. Roger Hartright, the well-known West India merchant, and Barnaby's own stepfather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates] Reference

Mr. Micawber himself came down to the countinghouse, in the afternoon, to tell Mr. Quinion that he must relinquish me on the day of his departure, and to give me a high character, which I am sure I deserved.    From Wordnik.com.  [XII. Liking Life on My Own Account No Better, I Form a Great Resolution] Reference

He ate without attention whatever was before him, and extravagantly pleasant, related how he had conversed with Mrs. Gerrit Ammidon in the family carriage in front of the countinghouse of Ammidon, Ammidon and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Java Head] Reference

But no, she must stay in the big gloomy countinghouse, to finish the letters that she had promised to copy for her father, while Alan had flung off, saying over his shoulder, as he departed to take his ride alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Windy Hill] Reference

Saltonstone and William in the countinghouse and he could tell from his brother's ill-restrained impatience that the other considered him hardly more than a clumsy-witted, stubborn fool before the mast of the facts of actual life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Java Head] Reference

For since capital is essential to industry, all those who want to earn a living in the workshops or in the countinghouse, or in the manager's office, will most of all, if they are well advised, want to see as much capital saved as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Finance] Reference

"Captain Ammidon, you -- you must come down to the countinghouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Java Head] Reference

“Do you know your little Vanya’s with me, a clerk in the countinghouse at Pokrovskoe.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna Karenina] Reference

Art drooping under thy load, bemoiled with butcher’s bills at home and ingots (not thine!) in the countinghouse?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

I'll be glad to go into all this in detail at the countinghouse, where we have the statistics and specifications. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Java Head] Reference

Not the difficulties of the schools and theology, but those of the parlour and countinghouse; ay, difficulties most difficult, those with persons nearest to you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Revolution in Tanner's Lane] Reference

The king was in his countinghouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference