Debtors

Examples

• 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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