Sentences with phrase «mill mercantile»

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For the Skimpoles of this world, the ultimate source of bread is the baker's van, and there is no need to concern oneself with plowing, sowing, weeding, dunging, cutting, threshing, milling, and baking — not to mention the thousands of mercantile transactions, from mortgages to tire rotations — that must be in place, and continually attended to, so that Skimpole might have his honey on toast.