How To Use Countinghouse In A Sentence
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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
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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
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Then go to the countinghouse and put everyone there under guard.
RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE: BOOK TWO OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
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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
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We gathered our raw levies from the factory and the field and the countinghouse and the farm.
The Tie That Binds
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Then go to the countinghouse and put everyone there under guard.
RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE: BOOK TWO OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
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Morris learned of this bit of slander one morning when “four or five poor women with Sacks under their arms” came knocking at the door of his countinghouse.
Robert Morris
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Had the conflict with England receded, Morris would likely have maintained that course, attending to the affairs of the countinghouse while his partner navigated the byways of Philadelphia politics.
Robert Morris
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His day entailed drudgery at his writing desk in the countinghouse, attending arrivals and supervising the lading of outgoing vessels, and meeting with vendors and other merchants at the City Tavern, at the India Queen, or at any of a dozen other dens where merchants did their business.
Robert Morris
