Creditor

Examples

• I begged a fortnight's grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Down to that moment, I had vainly supposed that my creditor had withdrawn, or suspended proceedings until I should be quite recovered. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The debtor, for fear of a very severe execution, was obliged, without any further gratuity, to vote for the candidate whom the creditor recommended. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Don't let out nothin' about the unnat'ral creditor, Sammy. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Seemed to scent a creditor. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• My worldly affairs began to wear a gloomy appearance, and I was pressed for money by more than one creditor. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The account is now favourably balanced: my creditor has accepted a composition. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But as to one family, there's debtor and creditor, I hope; they're not going to reform that away; else I should vote for things staying as they are. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Down with such dishonesty, says the creditor in triumph, and reviles his sinking enemy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The name of the Creditor is Riah,' said Mr Fledgeby, with a rather uncompromising accent on his noun-substantive. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It was his belief that if he were given time in which to realize them, all would be well and every creditor paid in full. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He vowed with a great oath that there was no woman in Europe who could talk a creditor over as she could. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• There is thus a heavy toll reckoned against the user, and the creditor is relentless in demanding payment. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• For the creditor to whom he owed a hundred and sixty held a firmer security in the shape of a bill signed by Mary's father. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• No definite industrial and political platform, for example, can satisfy rich and poor, black and white, Eastern creditor and Western farmer. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In the mean time Keimer's credit and business declining daily, he was at last forced to sell his printing-house to satisfy his creditors. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It was indeed in appearance only; for their creditors were really defrauded of a part of what was due to them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The only visitors I ever saw, or heard of, were creditors. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Has he many creditors? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• All that it has advanced to the public must be lost before its creditors can sustain any loss. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But as for paying your creditors in full, I might as well hope to pay the National Debt. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The name of Mr Tite Barnacle has been mentioned to me as representing some highly influential interest among his creditors. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He died in debt, and his little property was seized immediately by his creditors. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And you'll probably find that your creditors will impound the banking account of Mr. Cornelius, said Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The matter was so simple, to have or to leave, as she justly observed, that she made the lawyers of the creditors themselves do the business. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Therefore, it is my creditors' money that I should risk. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• So there he was, Miss Clack, with his creditors content to wait, and with the certain prospect before him of marrying an heiress. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• All his creditors would have come rushing on him in a body, had they known that he was united to a woman without fortune. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The owners of bank credits, and the holders of receipts, constitute two different sorts of creditors against the bank. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Cyrus surrendered his farm and what other property he had to his creditors. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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