Usage examples for mercantile
However ,
with
a
heart
overflowing
with
joy ,
I
entered
upon
my
mercantile
avocations.
– Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Alexander Leighton
My
father
kept
a
country
store ,
and
if
there
is
any
place
under
the
stars
where
a
man
gets
all
sorts
of
experience
in
every
kind
of
mercantile
transactions,
it
is
in
the
country
store .
– Acres of Diamonds by Russell H. Conwell
Not
quite
so
powerful
as
the
Sultan
of
Mvumi,
he
yet
owned
a
fair
share
of
Ugogo
and
about
forty
villages,
and
could ,
if
he
chose ,
have
oppressed
the
mercantile
souls
of
my
Arab
companions,
in
the
same
way
as
he
of
Mvumi.
– How I Found Livingstone by Sir Henry M. Stanley
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nobility
The state of being noble; peerage; aristocracy.
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