She came close up to me and greeted me with her sweet voice and pleasant speech and presently said, "Fetch me the Shroff and weigh thy money.
Thou shouldest do as the merchants do and sell thy merchandise at credit for a fixed period, on a contract drawn up by a notary and duly witnessed; and employ a Shroff to take thy dues every Monday and Thursday.
She saluted me and said, "O my master, we have been long in bringing thee the price of the stuffs; but now fetch the Shroff and take thy monies.
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Go to the Shroff and fetch me from him the like of yesterday's food.
But the mafu and the coolies were too frightened to continue the journey, so they were left behind, and Withers and the shroff went off by themselves.
So Withers and the shroff continued their desolate journey, day by day, across the plains, over such roads as are not, save in North China.
The shroff was a young Chinese who spoke excellent, mission-school English, and wore good European clothes, and he shared Withers' astonishment that such a thing had happened.
Withers and the shroff caught the first train out for Peking, and arriving in two hours, made hasty preparations for their journey.
She recognised Withers and theshroff and came forward.
He stood eyeing the young Chinese accountant, and the shroff looked him back fairly in the eye, and the same thought passed through both minds.
The shroff was clicking on his abacus, and left off snicking the beads up and down to remark casually that the compradore had gone.
The shroff should learn things from the beginning, and taking charge of the bales and boxes in the warehouses, counting them, distributing their contents, was part of the business.
The shroff was very fearful, but as he was to be compradore now, to do the work of a European, he could not show fear.
Their coolies shared the k'ang within, with the camel drivers and other travellers, but Withers and the shroff preferred the cart, for there were worse if smaller animals than camels to be found in native hostelries.
He paid the Shroff one-tenth of a dollar per one thousand for examining it, while the fixed charge by the Compradore was one-fifth.
If any money stamped by a Shroff on examination proved bad, it was exchanged by him, but such cases were extremely rare.
Gandy never had dealings with a shroff in his life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shroff" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
