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1642 Life & Death Collonell Harwood in E. Harwood Advice sig. B^v His closset thoughts were open to my Noble friend, from whom that Noble Prince got no smale advantage in his military way.

1679 L. Addison Life & Death Mahumed iii. 16 In this way of business he continued till he was 25 years of age; at which time his Master dyed.

1690 J. Norris Christian Blessedness 81 If God would not accept an House of Prayer from a Man of a Military Way and Character, much less will he accept Prayers which proceed from a Soul disturb'd with Anger.

1721 London Gaz. No. 6020/4 Diapers, Damasks, Huckabacks, and all sorts of..Linnens in a Linnen-Draper's Way.

1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera i. ix. 13 The Lawyers are bitter Enemies to those in our Way.

1752 London Evening Post 28 May 4/1 We hear that there hath been lately an Order made in some of the Royal Hospitals, that no Governor should serve them in his Way of Business.

1787 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 90 The best workmen in this way, acknowledge that his is like a new art.

1791 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse §293 This day the plumber completed every thing in his way about the balcony.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iv. x. 372 Karl Philip, Cadet of the Pfalz, came to Berlin—a rather idle young man, once in the clerical way, now gone into the military.

1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iv. xii. 265 I am in another way of business. And I am rather better off.

1914 Origin Aberdeen-Angus 32 The old Buchan Polls were famous in the dairy way—equal in the opinion of many who compared them to the Ayrshire breed.

1920 Act 10 & 11 George V c. 13 §2 (3) In the case of a seller who was in the same way of business before the war.

1995 Rep. Patent, Design & Trade Mark Cases 1994 379 Another party in the same way of business had already put forward a claim to be the proprietor of the identical trade.