Debtor

Examples

• She is my debtor, and I _will_ be paid. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She absconded a debtor, darted to her father, and took refuge on his knee. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• 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.
• Bah, poor debtor! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The poor side of a debtor's prison is, as its name imports, that in which the most miserable and abject class of debtors are confined. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• And slavery was the fate of the insolvent debtor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Steerforth, Esquire, debtor, to The Willing Mind”; that's not it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• When he was overpowered by these fits, the debtor often turned it for him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The doctor and the debtor ran down-stairs, leaving the turnkey to return to the lock, and made for the debtor's room. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The young are seldom in Elysium, for their desires, outstripping possibility, leave them as poor as a moneyless debtor. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• 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.
• Arthur Clennam dropped into a solitary arm-chair, itself as faded as any debtor in the jail, and yielded himself to his thoughts. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The introduction of money[230] probably increased the facilities of the usurer and the difficulties of the borrowing debtor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the case of a war, the very first act of hostility on the part of the debtor nation might be the forfeiture of the funds of its credit. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Necessarily, he was going out again directly, because the Marshalsea lock never turned upon a debtor who was not. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Never in a debtors' prison? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The poor side of a debtor's prison is, as its name imports, that in which the most miserable and abject class of debtors are confined. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I ordered my carriage to the debtors' door of Newgate. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• They were brought into these foreign towns in the custody of couriers and local followers, just as the debtors had been brought into the prison. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He was drawn to a debtors' prison. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The key was turned after them; and Mr. Pickwick found himself, for the first time in his life, within the walls of a debtors' prison. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• As those notes serve all the purposes of money, his debtors pay him the same interest as if he had lent them so much money. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But such traders and undertakers would surely be most inconvenient debtors to such a bank. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors, was a prayer too poor in spirit for her. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But I suppose you're too busy pocketing the ready money, to think of the debtors, eh? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Manlius spent his fortune in releasing debtors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Itself a close and confined prison for debtors, it contained within it a much closer and more confined jail for smugglers. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He locked himself up as carefully as he locked up the Marshalsea debtors. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

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