transact

• After which Mr. Pendleton remarked that a court was then sitting in which General Hamilton had much business to transact, and that he had also some private arrangements to make, which would render some delay unavoidable. —  Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 2.
• The business I had to transact, and fitting out the Sparrow-Hawk, so completely occupied me, that it was now three days that I had been at Liverpool without having seen her, and I was much annoyed at it, as I had called every day. —  The Privateersman
• Having some private business to transact, the child was sent to the school-room, and then Mr. Percy entered into a discussion respecting the capabilities of his son, and many other particulars, which, however interesting to himself, would fail of being so to us At length these topics were exhausted, and it seemed nearly decided how much was to be done or discontinued in Master Percy's education. —  Louis' School Days A Story for Boys
• My two companions had business to transact, and curiosity attracted me. —  Visit to Iceland
• There were two things which he thought man could do and would do for the glory of God--transact religious forms, and fight; and upon those two points he was severe; but within the sphere of common practical life, where man's great trial lies, his code exhibits the disdainful laxity of a legislator who accommodates his rule to the recipient, and shows his estimate of the recipient by the accommodation which he adopts. —  Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890

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