Bankrupts
[bæŋkrʌpts]
Examples
- O stockbrokers--bankrupts--used to it, you know, Rawdon replied, cutting a fly off the horse's ear. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I shouldn't like to think of poor Regina's spending the rest of her life in some shabby foreign watering-place for bankrupts. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The uncertainty of recovering his money makes the lender exact the same usurious interest which is usually required from bankrupts. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Though all of them may be very likely to become bankrupts, it is a chance if they all become so in so short a time. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Oh, wery well, Sir,' replied Sam, 'we shan't be bankrupts, and we shan't make our fort'ns. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Editor: Manuel