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  • When Oscar Wilde visited the San Francisco Bohemian Club in 1882, he reportedly observed, "I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life."

    Keeping Reality at Bay 2010

  • Several times, business-looking men, college-marked, astride horses or driving carts, stopped him and conferred with him.

    CHAPTER II 2010

  • Another business-looking man holding a woman around the waist was attempting to get Billy's attention a couple feet down the bar-top.

    Grant Whitney Harvey: Moonshadows: Part 4 2009

  • I was five days away from going into labor and arrived - no, waddled - into the audition in the best business-looking outfit I could find at my local Motherhood Maternity.

    Zorianna Kit: Iron Man Meet Iron Woman 2008

  • At the trial, she insisted on wearing a bright red satin dress even though Gerald and Angel told her to wear something a little more business-looking.

    Forged By Fire Sharon M. Draper 1997

  • At the trial, she insisted on wearing a bright red satin dress even though Gerald and Angel told her to wear something a little more business-looking.

    Forged By Fire Sharon M. Draper 1997

  • This way, gentlemen, 'And he ushered all three before him up a set of stone stairs, down a set of stone stairs, and into a carpeted apartment, where sat a gentleman of military aspect, behind a business-looking table overspread with papers.

    An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) David Christie Murray

  • She walked along every street in Nantes to find him, and was about giving up in despair, when she suddenly encountered at a crossing a brusque, business-looking man, whom she timidly requested to direct her to the residence of M. le Coq.

    Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois Anonymous

  • The foreman, a near-sighted business-looking person, seemed to radiate sympathy through his glasses.

    32 Caliber Donald McGibeny

  • -- A constable, a homely, good-natured, business-looking man, with a warrant against an Irishman's wife for throwing a brickbat at a fellow.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various

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