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Examples
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"How much would you expect?" the captain was asking, -- a most unsealike captain, in Daughtry's opinion; rather, a spick-and - span, brisk little business-man or floor-walker just out of a bandbox.
CHAPTER IX 2010
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The first hand up in the classroom, the hyper business-man or woman who can't sit still, much less listen -- these are icons of success in American society.
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He invited us to stay at an ocean-side camp-site that he took care of for a business-man.
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He invited us to stay at an ocean-side camp-site that he took care of for a business-man.
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He faced a statewide officeholder, a Chigago machine endorsed pro, and a multi-millionaire business-man.
Quote Of The Day 2009
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He was a middle-class business-man whose success as a printer and a journalist allowed him to retire at 42 -- and in notably un-Babbitt-like fashion, he devoted the rest of his life to his city and his country.
This Is Mr. America 2007
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‘Shadrach, the truth is, you are not a business-man,’ his wife sadly murmured.
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This perverted child-man was now a real business-man; when it was a question of affairs, he was an absolute he-man, sharp as a needle, and impervious as a bit of steel.
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It was despite his being normal; it was despite his being cheerful; it was despite his being a leading Woollett business-man; and the determination of his fate left him thus perfectly usual — as everything else about it was clearly, to his sense, not less so.
The Ambassadors 2003
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Woollett business-man could hope to achieve socially, and for that matter industrially, was a certain freedom to play into this general glamour.
The Ambassadors 2003
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