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(I'm going to teach these people how to cook mercan food if they show up at my classes.)
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By the time old Demon Moon began to fatten, a line of rattlers would hang from the hitching posts of both the Travellers 'Rest and the mercan-tile across the street.
Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997
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The founders of both — Valdes ca. 1176 at Lyons, Saint Francis in 1206 at Assisi — renounced the wealth and the conventions of a mercan - tile life for one of wandering poverty and preaching, because they had received a vision of their true voca - tion.
HERESY IN THE MIDDLE AGES GORDON LEFF 1968
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Bossuet, Fénelon espoused the rights of the feudal aristocracy, denounced royal centralization, mercan - tilism, and constant resort to war.
DESPOTISM MELVIN RICHTER 1968
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Bossuet, Fénelon espoused the rights of the feudal aristocracy, denounced royal centralization, mercan - tilism, and constant resort to war.
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The law of merchants pervading the whole commer - cial M'orld, is the standard of decision, upon questions of navigation, trade, insurance, and other innumerable grounds of litigation, produced by the spirit of mercan - tile enterprize.
Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate 1791
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Hoftilities with America dis - approved of by the mercan - tile part of Great Britain,
History of the war with America, France, Spain, and Holland : commencing in 1775 and ending in 1783 1785
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Chap. 96 An Act relative to providing seats for women and minors in manufacturing, mechanical and mercan - tile establishments.
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No female per - Employment son shall knowingly be employed in laboring in a mercan - ghoTtTy before tile, manufacturing or mechanical establishment within four and after weeks before or four weeks after childbirth.
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a little further down the street you will find a wonderful turkish bakery & snack shop - mercan pastanesi at rozengracht 148. they make this wicked turkish pizza - i cant walk past without ordering one.
FOOD TRAVELS AMSTERDAM myriam 2007
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