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Sentences starting with debts

Debts of honour they paid but tardily, if at all. [9]

Sentences ending with debts

My father failed when he came to Coniston--he was not meant for business, and Uncle Jethro took care of him all his life, and paid his debts. [9]
Dear old darling, we all think the creditors are going to allow us to resume business; and if they do we shall pull through and pay the debts. [5]
His sole property was debts. [10]
His sister Isabella, too, was dear to him, in spite of her husband, the reckless Sir Seitz Siebenburg, in whose hands the gold paid from the coffers of the firm melted away, yet who was burdened with a mountain of debts. [10]
About the same time he received letters from Prince Vasili and other Petersburg acquaintances speaking of his wife's debts. [2]
M. Fille hesitated, then said reflectively: "He has lost his case in the Appeal Court, monsieur; also, his cousin, Auguste Charron, who has been working the Latouche farm, has flitted, leaving--" "Leaving Jean Jacques to pay unexpected debts? [11]
The North got the western boundary of Texas thrown farther back eastward than the South desired; but, in turn, they gave Texas ten millions of dollars with which to pay her old debts. [7]
I strongly advise that every penny that comes in shall be applied to paying off debts. [5]
If you will tell me that Tom has finished paying Randolph's debts. [9]
But he regarded such a refusal as a slur on his father's memory, which he held sacred, and therefore would not hear of refusing and accepted the inheritance together with the obligation to pay the debts. [2]

Short sentences using debts

I pay my debts. [11]

More example sentences with the word debts in them

But dread of your uncle drove me on, and I had debts to frighten me. [9]
Of course you will not have an instant's safety until the bank debts are paid. [5]
The big dinner-parties which are commonly made to pay off social debts are generally of the sort that one would rather contribute to in money than in personal attendance. [4]
Besides, his debts were small in comparison with the vast sums Herr Casper had lavished in maintaining the impoverished estates of the Rotterbach kindred. [10]
Though the position was now altered by his decision to pay his wife's debts and to rebuild his houses, Pierre still maintained that he had become three times as rich as before. [2]
It was all very well for him to say that he would settle his debts him self. [10]
Isabella's hand could undoubtedly free him from the oppressive burden of his debts, and she was certainly a magnificent woman! [10]
Gentlemen, I stand to-day a discredited man because the honest debts I incurred in the service of that government are repudiated, because my friends who helped it, Father Gibault, Vigo, and Gratiot, and others have never been repaid. [9]
A further proof to Pierre of his own more settled outlook on practical matters was furnished by his decision with regard to his wife's debts and to the rebuilding of his houses in and near Moscow. [2]
The debts amounted to double the value of the property. [2]
Nicholas accepted thirty thousand rubles offered him by his brother-in-law Bezukhov to pay off debts he regarded as genuinely due for value received. [2]
He shaved through this financial crisis, in spite of the blow he had received by the loss of his lawsuits, the flitting of his cousin, Auguste Charron, and the farm debts of this same cousin. [11]
By the time they were ready to sail from Vancouver five thousand dollars had been remitted to Mr. Rogers against that day of settlement when the debts of Webster & Co. were to be paid. [5]
They have paid their way and their debts in honour, and it is in the bond with all the Barbilles of the past that I do as they do. [11]
A part of the present national debt was contracted to pay the old debts of Texas. [7]
Not one of the plans Nicholas tried succeeded; the estate was sold by auction for half its value, and half the debts still remained unpaid. [2]
An eighteenth of the Ophir was a fortune to John D. Winters--and the Ophir can't beat the Johnson any..... My debts are greater than I thought for; I bought $25 worth of clothing, and sent $25 to Higbie, in the cement diggings. [5]
It was not the kind of scheming that many men have done under the circumstances; not scheming to avoid payment of debts, but to pay them. [5]
As he set the flask down he made the reflection that if he would drink water instead of Chianti he could send his father three dollars a week, on his back debts, and he resolved to do it. [8]
I expect, from the extravagance of his behaviour, and from mysterious hints he drops (for he never will speak out plainly), that we shall be hearing news of fresh debts contracted by him soon. [14]
The state of the count's affairs became quite obvious a month after his death, surprising everyone by the immense total of small debts the existence of which no one had suspected. [2]
It was merely the arrival of a Sheriff's officer on a visit to B., inviting him either to pay his debts or take a trip to York. [14]
It is said that under a general law, whenever a R. R. Co. gets tired of its debts, it may transfer fraudulently to get rid of them. [7]
Mr. Stith says that it was the testimony of his fellow soldiers and adventurers that "they never knew a soldier, before him, so free from those military vices of wine, tobacco, debts, dice, and oathes. [4]
It produced the sum necessary to pay his gaming debts, and saved him from exposure to his uncle and another smashing of the will. [5]
Again, if one State may secede, so may another; and when all shall have seceded, none is left to pay the debts. [7]
The progress of society now begins to produce cases of the transfer for debts of the entire property of railroad corporations; and to enable transferees to use and enjoy the transferred property, legislation and adjudication begin to be necessary. [7]
The desire to rid himself of troublesome debts had only hastened the Emperor's resolution. [10]
If they have retained it, by their own construction of ours, they show that to be consistent they must secede from one another whenever they shall find it the easiest way of settling their debts, or effecting any other selfish or unjust object. [7]
It was not required of him to pay his debts in full. [5]
But when I realize who I am, I see before me a blind man who is poorer than a beggar, because the scorching flames melted even the gold which was to help him pay his debts. [10]
With his debts paid, Clemens was anxious to be getting home. [5]
Yet I'd rather owe you two debts than most men one. [11]
There's a way out, I sez, and John Alloway pays his debts. [11]
Let us begin on the debts. [5]
If he insisted on debts being paid, he was never exacting or cruel. [11]
Thus far none of the Webster Company debts had been paid--at least, none of importance. [5]
The greater part of the first debts to me is in notes paying 6 percent. [5]
Even the burden of his debts weighed less heavily on his conscience than the irritating words with which he had induced his father-in-law to break off Wolff's betrothal to Els Ortlieb. [10]
Nicholas was allowed no respite and no peace, and those who had seemed to pity the old man--the cause of their losses (if they were losses)--now remorselessly pursued the young heir who had voluntarily undertaken the debts and was obviously not guilty of contracting them. [2]
This, however, was no great fortune, for the large estates of the Schorlin family were burdened by heavy debts. [10]
I made up my mind one night that if I could pay my debts and get out of Charlestown I would go into the back country and study law and sober down. [9]
Night after night Mr. Carvel had lain awake with the agony of those Eastern debts. [9]
Perhaps, however, he might have induced her to go with him had not his father-in-law made his debts a snare, which he drew whenever it was necessary to stifle his wishes, and he, too, wanted to retain his daughter at home. [10]
I've found the method to pay off all my debts, and you'll get your money! [5]
But if your Majesty's divine goodness did not sometimes pay my debts, which are now a part of me as the tail belongs to the comet--" "Oho! [10]
He did not know at all how much he had, what his debts amounted to, or what dowry he could give Vera. [2]
And my grandfather knew this; he warned me, but he paid my debts. [9]
The sale of it was large, not only on account of the value of the book itself, but also because of the sympathy of the American people with Mark Twain's brave struggle to pay his debts. [5]
But Nixon cured it in his diligent three years, and joyously reported the news that he had cleared off all the debts and now had a fat six thousand dollars in the bank. [5]
He lived serene in his lofty world of philosophy, far above the mean interests that absorbed smaller men, and only came down to the ground at intervals to pass the hat for alms to pay his debts with, and insult the man that relieved him. [5]
I, the cheerful idiot that had been squandering money like water, and thought myself beyond the reach of misfortune, had not now as much as fifty dollars when I gathered together my various debts and paid them. [5]
As it is, I expect to pay all the debts. [5]
He had remembered his father's plea; that unnerved him, and he promised himself again to return his father's poor little check and to work on that picture and give it to Fulkerson for the check he had left and for his back debts. [8]
Had not all his debts been paid? [11]
Virginia has given him a sword, eight thousand wild acres to be sure, repudiated the debts of his army, and left him to starve. [9]
He even told her that his Majesty was occupying himself with his last will, the payment of his debts, the arrangement of the succession, and the choice of his burial place. [10]
In this way he pays the debts which his farming has achieved during the agricultural season. [5]
Not only did he not save anything, but to comply with his mother's demands he even incurred some small debts. [2]
Within four years he had paid off all his remaining debts without selling any of his wife's property, and having received a small inheritance on the death of a cousin he paid his debt to Pierre as well. [2]
Now then, will Harper or Appleton, or Putnam give me $200,000 for those debts and my two-thirds interest in the firm? [5]
With a mere handful of dollars, and some debts, he left the world of scholarship and superior pedagogy, and went where the head offices of railways were. [11]
On the one hand, the chief steward put the state of things to him in the very worst light, pointing out the necessity of paying off the debts and undertaking new activities with serf labor, to which Pierre did not agree. [2]
The Seigneur Duvarney had paid all debts he may have owed me, and he now might, because of the injury to his son, leave me to my fate. [11]
When the retail grocer wakens in the morning he feels that his business is not going to come to him spontaneously; he thinks of his rivals, of his perilous stock, of his debts and delinquent customers. [4]
He was a great light in his denomination, but he was an extravagant liver, and, being unable to pay his debts, he was arrested and put into jail, with the liberty of the "limits. [4]
Of course a good deal of this friskiness comes of my being in sight of land--on the Webster & Co. debts, I mean. [5]
Land we are glad to see those debts diminishing. [5]
This greed of gain, which had brought him to Nuremberg to seek a wife, was probably latent in his blood, though his reckless accumulation of debts seemed to contradict it. [10]
We were seized for the debts occasioned by their illness and their funerals, and placed among the attractions of a cheap museum in Berlin to earn the liquidation money. [5]
It cannot compromise for less than one hundred cents on a dollar, and its debts are never outlawed. [5]
How glad she felt to be able to pay her dead father's debts and save the honor of his name! [10]
They saw his faults, which he laid bare before them, but they settled his debts again and again, vast sums which he lost at Newmarket and at Brooks's. [9]
What could be expected when covetous patrons canceled their debts to their servants by bestowing advowsons of benefices upon their bakers, butlers, cooks, grooms, pages, and lackeys--when even in the universities there was cheating at elections for scholarships and fellowships, and gifts were for sale! [4]
The debts interfered every time, and took the spirit out of any work. [5]
After paying father's debts, we've come out here with only a few thousand dollars, and the nine hundred I saved out of this year's Law School allowance. [9]
I paid my debts yesterday, and sous are scarce, but since we are distant cousins I may claim grist at the family mill, eh? [11]
Of course his debts had to be paid. [14]
You've got to conciliate the South, consolidate the two debts, pay 'em off in greenbacks, and go ahead. [5]
It was a civil way of telling him that all summer debts were now paid, and that his relations with the house of Mavick were at an end. [4]
Purchases bought by bulk in partnership had to be equitably divided, outstanding debts canceled, accounts compared, and trunks, boxes and packages labeled. [5]
Palass Poucette left behind him seven sound horses, and cows and sheep, and a threshing- machine and a fanning-mill, and no debts, and two thousand dollars in the bank. [11]
Since we have begun to pay off the debts I have abundant peace of mind again--no sense of burden. [5]
This duty has been, under existing circumstances, satisfactorily performed, in part at least, by authorizing the issue of United States notes, receivable for all government dues except customs, and made a legal tender for all debts, public and private, except interest on public debt. [7]
Could he have been removed from the barrels and the ledgers, and the debts and the cares and the implications, what might we have had from his pen? [9]
This must now be confessed, and also the amount of his own debts. [10]
An oracular scientist at the club the other night put it rather neatly when he said that a society that exists mainly to pay its debts gets stupid. [4]
Another unsuccessful attempt at store-keeping was followed by better luck at surveying, until his horse and instruments were levied upon under execution for the debts of his business adventure. [7]
The Demeter which Archias had ordered had been partially paid for in advance, and he had intended to use the gold--a considerable sum--to pay debts in Alexandria. [10]
They have save and save twenty years to pay their debts and to buy a seigneury, like that baron who live in the time of John the Baptist. [11]
I had debts, and I paid them. [11]
It is like an importunate creditor that reminds us of our forgotten debts, and I love pleasure and hate an importunate reminder. [10]
Which she did, along with its debts. [5]
I see him about once in two months, when he comes here with a bill for his satins and his ruffles, and along face of repentance, and a lot of gaming debts to involve my honour. [9]
We can pay a part of the debts owing to outsiders--none to the Clemenses. [5]
For you are a good man and a wise man; and you know that I shall pay my debts of every kind some sure day. [11]

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