Sentences with phrase «now mercantile»

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To a traveler arriving on the morning train — by now an expert on Pennsylvania coal towns — the hat shop and dry - goods store, the pharmacy and mercantile, seem built to last.

Now, I believe those Chinese are better Christians than our vile mercantile snobs and wish for peace with us and are not thinking of war, and I'll see the merchants and their Yankee and French allies damned before I consent to go to war with China to fill their pockets with money.»