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  • Cicely got up also and went down the long countingroom to where her father sat by the fire.

    The Windy Hill Cornelia Meigs 1928

  • There were shadows already on the shelves of heavy ledgers lining the walls, and on the rows of ship's models all up and down the sides of the big countingroom.

    The Windy Hill Cornelia Meigs 1928

  • Cicely could remember when the big countingroom had been crowded with clerks and had hummed like a beehive with the myriad activities of the Hallowell trade.

    The Windy Hill Cornelia Meigs 1928

  • Cicely could remember when the big countingroom had been crowded with clerks and had hummed like a beehive with the myriad activities of the Hallowell trade.

    The Windy Hill 1922

  • There were shadows already on the shelves of heavy ledgers lining the walls, and on the rows of ship's models all up and down the sides of the big countingroom.

    The Windy Hill 1922

  • Cicely got up also and went down the long countingroom to where her father sat by the fire.

    The Windy Hill 1922

  • In this he suddenly recognized that the street was like the countingroom of the

    Java Head Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • Standing at his high desk in the countingroom of the Mongolian Marine Insurance Company, Taou Yuen's glittering passage through Salem already seemed to him a fable, a dream.

    Java Head Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • In the vast, stirring, busy countingroom, the men had scarcely time to seek him out his packet; his delay was but alluded to in passing.

    Chapter XVII. Book IV 1917

  • He wrote little essays on the backs of envelopes, philosophized over his bills, sneaked out of the countingroom the back way to attend the afternoon lectures by the great

    Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 Elbert Hubbard 1885

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