How To Use countinghouse In A Sentence
- Quartered at the southern end of the Philadelphia waterfront, Willing operated a countinghouse, warehouse, a retail store, and below those, a wharf, berth to his several square-rigged frigates. Robert Morris
- But Morris and Greene were separated by circumstance and experience, one entrenched in his Philadelphia countinghouse, the other camped under the southern stars. Robert Morris
- Then go to the countinghouse and put everyone there under guard. RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE: BOOK TWO OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
- The unwitting instigator was John Brown, a former clerk in the Willing & Morris countinghouse, who was sent by Thomas Willing to deliver a secret message that originated with the British high command. Robert Morris
- We gathered our raw levies from the factory and the field and the countinghouse and the farm. The Tie That Binds
- Quartered at the southern end of the Philadelphia waterfront, Willing operated a countinghouse, warehouse, a retail store, and below those, a wharf, berth to his several square-rigged frigates. Robert Morris
- Morris stayed busy enough in the daytime, shuttling between committee offices, the countinghouse, and the waterfront, where he harangued teams of seamen and stevedores—“I have scolded the officers like a gutter-whore,” he said of one laggard crew. Robert Morris
- Morris perused the documents in the chilly gloom of the countinghouse: among them was a printed copy of the Prohibitory Act, a new law passed by Parliament just before Christmas in retaliation for the warlike posture of the colonies. Robert Morris
- Before long he was brought into the countinghouse as a clerk, churning out the voluminous, painstaking correspondence that was the lifeblood of the shipping trade. Robert Morris
- Affairs at the countinghouse wound down to the point that Morris sent his half-brother, Thomas, now a partner in the firm, back to Europe. Robert Morris
