| The town's mercantile district featured several boarded up storefronts and a coffee shop hidden behind a dozen muddy pick-up trucks. |
| In the space of a generation we changed from an agrarian to a mercantile culture, from a stay-at-home society to one on the move. |
| The deposition states that this rating had prevailed for a number of years in all mercantile transactions. |
| By mercantile usage, a bank has a lien over commercial paper deposited by the customer in the ordinary course of banking business. |
| As prices fall further, bank loans turn sour, and one or more mercantile houses, banks, discount houses, or brokerages fail. |
| Despite its great girth, Mr. Chernow's opus is less suitable for more advanced students, particularly those of a mercantile or financial bent. |
