The discussions in Committee are often admirably businesslike, except when there is obstruction, as there frequently is.

The stranger was at businesshis businessnow, and his voice became correspondingly businesslike.

These gloves seem to have a peculiarly businesslike meaning for the others, and now they watched, fascinated, while the sheriff tugged his fingers deeper into the gloves, as if he were getting ready for action.

Nothing simpler than to arrange the details of such a plan, which, of course, must be 'strictly businesslike,' though carried out in a spirit of mutual goodwill.

The coach was too stubbornly businesslike; regarded her, she detected, merely as someone who had a lot to learn about the game.

But I confess to having laboured under an increasing depression, because the whole thing was conducted by rule and line, and in a terribly businesslike way; we knew beforehand exactly what we were to look out for.

He was tremendously businesslike, and Muskwa, tagging bravely along behind, wondered if he were never going to stop; if there could be anything in the whole wide world finer for a big grizzly and a little tan-faced cub than these wonderful sunlit slopes which Thor seemed in such great haste to leave.

Many of them appeared to be unusually businesslike.

The "judge" began to grow vastly businesslike.