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When Oscar Wilde visited the San Francisco Bohemian Club in 1882, he reportedly observed, "I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life."
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Several times, business-looking men, college-marked, astride horses or driving carts, stopped him and conferred with him.
CHAPTER II 2010
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Another business-looking man holding a woman around the waist was attempting to get Billy's attention a couple feet down the bar-top.
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I was five days away from going into labor and arrived - no, waddled - into the audition in the best business-looking outfit I could find at my local Motherhood Maternity.
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At the trial, she insisted on wearing a bright red satin dress even though Gerald and Angel told her to wear something a little more business-looking.
Forged By Fire Sharon M. Draper 1997
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At the trial, she insisted on wearing a bright red satin dress even though Gerald and Angel told her to wear something a little more business-looking.
Forged By Fire Sharon M. Draper 1997
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This way, gentlemen, 'And he ushered all three before him up a set of stone stairs, down a set of stone stairs, and into a carpeted apartment, where sat a gentleman of military aspect, behind a business-looking table overspread with papers.
An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) David Christie Murray
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She walked along every street in Nantes to find him, and was about giving up in despair, when she suddenly encountered at a crossing a brusque, business-looking man, whom she timidly requested to direct her to the residence of M. le Coq.
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The foreman, a near-sighted business-looking person, seemed to radiate sympathy through his glasses.
32 Caliber Donald McGibeny
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-- A constable, a homely, good-natured, business-looking man, with a warrant against an Irishman's wife for throwing a brickbat at a fellow.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various
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