| 1. | Factories, mercantile life, labor-saving machinery, the Northeast. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | The post-office is properly a mercantile project. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 3. | Her husband was captain of a mercantile boat plying between Dublin and Holland and they had one child. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 4. | Their mercantile projects were not much better conducted. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 5. | They are so far, perhaps, more inconsistent than even the mercantile system. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 6. | Such are the unfortunate effects of all the regulations of the mercantile system. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 7. | In a rude state of society, there are no great mercantile or manufacturing capitals. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 8. | By raising the rate of mercantile profit, the monopoly discourages the improvement of land. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 9. | If the profit is less, mercantile employments will draw capital from the improvement of land. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |