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Meanings of mercantile career in English

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Usage of mercantile career in English
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And thus amid the frowns of adversity ended the mercantile career of the subject of this memoir.
Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman
2
I think you'll have to begin your mercantile career behind a dry goods counter after all, he snarled.
Dick the Bank Boy; Or, A Missing Fortune
3
My mercantile career had ended, and forthwith I took to the range as a preacher's son takes to vice.
The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days
4
That was John Smith's mercantile career: it won't stand comparison with Mr. Gladstone's, but it's not unlike your own.
Literary Lapses
5
To see, to take part in the regular activity, the high honor of your mercantile career, is salvation to him.
Debit and Credit / Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag
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At this stage of his unpromising mercantile career, the approaching catastrophe was hastened by a very grievous and untoward event.
Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman
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He was from infancy intended for a mercantile career, nor does he seem to have felt any dislike to it.
The Coming of the Friars
8
During the first seven years of his mercantile career, Amos Lawrence did not permit a bill to remain unsettled over Sunday.
Pushing to the Front
9
In the first place, his refusal to qualify himself for a mercantile career had made it necessary to dispose of the business to strangers.
Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time
10
The discipline of your present office will do you no harm, but will help qualify you for usefulness and success in the mercantile career.
The Telegraph Boy
11
He was destined by his parents for a mercantile career, and was articled to a French firm in London to perfect himself in commercial training.
Great Italian and French Composers
12
From the day that Isaac Hakkabut had entered upon his mercantile career, his dealings had all been carried on by a system of false weight.
Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space
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