counting-rooms

Here these bold speculators cast off the burden of their counting-rooms and the atmosphere of their city houses, which are built closely together without open spaces, often without court-yards, — a vice of construction with the increasing population of Havre, the inflexible line of the fortifications, and the enlargement of the docks has forced upon them.

Modeste Mignon 2007

Go where you would in the city, — in the hotels, stores, counting-rooms, in the streets, in the cars, in the country as well as the city, — the all-absorbing topic was the "arrival of Dickens!"

The Public and Private Worlds of Charles Dickens 2002

Go where you would in the city, — in the hotels, stores, counting-rooms, in the streets, in the cars, in the country as well as the city, — the all-absorbing topic was the "arrival of Dickens!"

The Public and Private Worlds of Charles Dickens 2002

Bank, nor in the counting-rooms of the “City”; no ships ever came into London docks of which he was the owner; he had no public employment; he had never been entered at any of the Inns of

Around the World in 80 Days 2003

The elder children were older than Catherine, and the boys were sent to college or placed in counting-rooms.

Washington Square 2003

Look into the counting-rooms, the offices, the libraries -- aye, even the brilliantly-illuminated parlors -- and you will in each find your answer.

Marguerite Verne Rebecca Agatha Armour

So long as you are satisfied with it as it is, sustain it as it is, take it into your families and into your counting-rooms as it is, and encourage it as it is, it will remain what it is.

Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Various

The firm was considered highly respectable now, and had counting-rooms in Pearl street, near Wall, second floor, furnished in a style of elegance it would be difficult to surpass, even at this day.

The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family A. R. [Illustrator] Waud

After that, some dozen or more of the large wholesale houses engaged him to furnish their counting-rooms with lunch, and he began with brilliant prospects.

Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 Various

Standing here, facing the interval between the Main Building and Machinery Hall, our eyes and steps are conducted from great to greater by a group of buildings which must bear their true name of offices, belittling as a title suggestive of clerks and counting-rooms is to dimensions and capacity exceeding those of most churches.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various