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  • People were initially amused by the mercantile's humorously bland name and by the incongruity of its desolate location and up-to-the-minute stock, but they bought in droves.

    The Store Little, Bentley 1998

  • With no clear thought as to why he was doing it, Roland went softly up the steps to the mercantile's porch.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

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