countinghouse

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A director who sees the countinghouse at the center of the play cannot take seriously Portia's enchanted realm of Belmont, with its fairy-tale plot and flowery sentiments.

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Though much of his own attention was concentrated on the countinghouse, Ochs also had a talent for filling his editorial offices with some of the legendary greats of journalism.

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The surprising success of TV Guide has sent shock waves of concern through many a publisher's countinghouse.

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He graduated from Harvard, worked in his uncle's countinghouse, visited England, returned to Boston two years before his uncle's death, and took over the business in a year when trade declined 80%.

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My courage failed me at the sight of a countinghouse or shop crowded with men, bartering and contending loudly with one another.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein