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"Mercantile establishment" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The risk did not stop here; for the islands and ports most frequented by American vessels being known to the enemy, he was enabled from his abundance of means to intercept them there also. The coasting trade, that most valuable appendage to an extensive mercantile establishment in the United States, was entirely annihilated. The southern and northern sections of the Union were unable to exchange their commodities, except upon a contracted scale through the medium of land carriage, and then ...
— Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 - Volume 2 • Alfred Thayer Mahan
... When I had fully examined from the outside the scene of my future triumphs—for I had now resolved to settle down and make my fortune in Montevideo— Ibegan seriously to look out for employment. I visited in turn every large mercantile establishment in the place, and, in fact, every house where I thought there might be a chance of lighting on something to do. It was necessary to make a beginning, and I would not have turned up my nose at anything, however small, ...
— The Purple Land • W. H. Hudson |
Words linked to "Mercantile establishment" : trading post, business establishment, center, plaza, shopping mall, shop, ware, wholesale house, strip mall, place of business, merchandise, market place, discount store, discount house, mall, mart, store, department store, country store, shopping centre, marketplace, general store, market, emporium, product, discounter, shopping center |
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