And men, young and old, all went back to their ledgers and counters and manufacturing with a sense of lassitude and dejection.
"The Maid of Maiden Lane"
Amelia E. Barr
Monsieur Batonnin, I will never forgive you those six counters!
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock
He wasn't that, of course, in any intrinsic sense: like most men of his type he had gulped his knowledge standing, as he had snatched his food from lunch-counters; the wonder of it lay in his extraordinary power of assimilation.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton