Lexicographical Neighbors of Compting
Literary usage of Compting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Early Schools and School-books of New England by George Emery Littlefield, Club of Odd Volumes (1904)
"A much more pretentious manual is The compting House Assistant ; or Book-keeping
made easy : being a complete Treatise on Merchants accompts, By John Cooke, ..."
2. The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth: Among which are by John Nichols (1823)
"... of Honor The compting-house The Yeoman of the Guard Summa, ... li 11* 10 7 o*
Chamber - 18 4 8£ 10 2 ££21639 3 5i 6022 13 3* The compting-house 16 Mrs. ..."
3. Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by George Henry Borrow (1900)
"CHAPTER LXXXI The Mining compting Room—Native of Aberystwyth—Story of a Bloodhound—The
Young ... The room seemed half compting-room, half apartment. ..."
4. The Trial and Acquittal of Ezra Haskell for the Charge of Forgery by Thomas Towndrow, Ezra Haskell (1833)
"Do you know whether the connexion between the store and the compting room had
... I helped to move a large desk out of the compting room in October 18l.il. ..."
5. The Progresses, Processions, and Magnificent Festivities, of King James the by John Nichols (1828)
"The Master of the Household, in the absence of the great officers, shalbe daily
in the compting-house, and sitt there at the Green-cloth betwixt the houres ..."
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