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(Matteo winced; had he ever made such an unmercantile remark?) "Might your steam pump prove valuable to Venice?"
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The front shop was very small, dingily clean and scornfully unmercantile.
Strong Hearts George Washington Cable 1884
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She did not regard it with so much pride and pleasure as she did the two four - pence, and the four coppers, for there was something unmercantile about the manner in which it had come into her possession.
Poor and proud; or, The fortunes of Katy Redburn, a story for young folks 1859
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She did not regard it with so much pride and pleasure as she did the two four-pence, and the four coppers, for there was something unmercantile about the manner in which it had come into her possession.
Poor and Proud, or the Fortunes of Katy Redburn: a Story for Young Folks Oliver Optic 1859
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The false principles of this unmercantile transaction (to speak of it in the mildest terms) were too gross not to be visible to those who contrived it.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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