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"Businesslike" Quotes from Famous Books

... very brisk and businesslike. To their good-mornings she only nodded in a funny, preoccupied ...

— The Magnetic North • Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)

... the British Expeditionary Force. He was glad of the opportunity of obtaining an insight into the methods of supplying the British Army in the field, and was impressed with the thoroughness, efficiency, and businesslike promptitude of the Army Service Corps. He took the earliest chance of quitting this routine work and ...

— War Letters of a Public-School Boy • Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones

... upholstery arrived in Hartford in a sultry state of mind and with a libel suit in his eye, and his name was Eschol Sellers! He had never heard of the other one, and had never been within a thousand miles of him. This damaged aristocrat's programme was quite definite and businesslike: the American Publishing Company must suppress the edition as far as printed, and change the name in the plates, or stand a suit for $10,000. He carried away the Company's promise and many apologies, and we changed the name back to Colonel Mulberry ...

— Chapters from My Autobiography • Mark Twain

... began to grow vastly businesslike. He must have the full names correctly, ages, birthplaces. Gratton answered for himself and for Gloria, who stood now with her hand on the back of a chair just within the living-room door. Across the room was ...

— The Everlasting Whisper • Jackson Gregory

... rare pleasure, I assure you, Miss Corblay, for a man in my line of work to receive such a prompt, courteous and businesslike answer from a woman. You have my word that anything you tell me ...

— The Long Chance • Peter B. Kyne

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