countingroom

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