The butcher will not trust us any more, the other creditors press us, and at the end of the month we shall have just ten drachmae left us.
The steward's creditors divided his little possessions; nothing but the chest of papyri followed the girl to her new home.
It was immediately after this that application was made to the creditors on behalf of Mr. Brown.
Robinson did not take the trouble to explain to him that had he kept his four thousand pounds out of the way, the creditors would not now have any lost money to lament.
As to Mr. Brown, the creditorswith much generosity agreed that an annuity of 20s.
There arecreditors who are pressing us; and now that they have been frightened about Mr. Brown, we shall be sold up.
It was on this occasion, when the charitable intention of the creditors was communicated to Mr. Brown by Robinson, that that conversation took place to which allusion has been made in the opening chapter of these memoirs.
That is a matter for the lawyers, Mr. Hartington, but I imagine you would not have to go back on the creditors to the bank.
If my father was not a shareholder in the bank its creditors had, of course, no claim whatever on his property, but as the property has in fact been sold and the proceeds divided long ago who should I have to go against?
The creditors of the bank have been the sufferers if there was any irregularity in it.
At any rate it would not be enough to make any material difference to the creditors of the bank.
Adolphe had designated the sixth of January as the day fixed for a meeting at which the creditors in Chaumontel's affair were to receive the sums due them.
To pay these creditors the railroad had to borrow more; but when the credit of the railroad was assailed, it found that its sources of borrowing were suddenly shut off.
Most of these creditorswere capitalist land speculators.
As the railroad had borrowed immense sums of money both to finance its coal combination and to build extensive terminals and other equipment, large payments to creditors were due from time to time.
Creditors swooped down upon him, political enemies rose in troops, and the "Lieutenant-General of Canada and the adjacent countries" was clapped in jail like a common malefactor.
Also he was harassed by creditorsand compelled repeatedly to make the long and tedious journey to Montreal.
M^r Gerry considered giving the power only, without adopting the obligation, as destroying the security now enjoyed by the publiccreditors of the U-- States.
M^r Langdon wished to do no more than leave the Creditors in statu quo.
M^r Rutlidge moved to refer a clause "that funds appropriated to public creditors should not be diverted to other purposes.
To secure all creditors under the new Constitution from a violation of the public faith when pledged by the authority of the Legislature.
There was a great distinction between original creditors & those who purchased fraudulently of the ignorant and distressed.
There are other creditors who will part with any thing rather than be cheated of the capital of their advances.
The State Creditors had generally been the strongest foes to the impost-plan.
At last the financial scheme came into operation, and, combined with other reforms, for some time seemed likely to secure to Egypt and her creditors a fair share of the blessings intended.
The majority of thecreditors are in New York City and Boston.
Rifkin ain't in trouble; his creditors is in trouble, Mr. Potash.
Since proceedings in bankruptcy are in the nature of proceedings in rem, personal notice to creditors is not required; creditors are bound by the proceedings in distribution on notice by publication and mail.
When his creditors proposed to him a composition, his sense of honour forbade his listening to them.
Some feel it to be no burden at all; others bear it very lightly; whilst others look upon creditors in the light of persecutors, and themselves in the light of martyrs.
One of Sheridan's creditors came for his money on horseback.
Only a few of the outer buildings have been destroyed; but I undertake to repair the house and to redeem your fief from the creditors who claim it.
The creditors were paid off, and the title-deeds of Roche-Mauprat passed into his hands.
A little while before our creditors had obtained a writ of arrest against us.
Three times during the twelve years of its confiscation to Antony's creditorsshe visited it.
I wish you to communicate with all the creditors of the late firm of Antony Hallam.
But when two years had passed, and no meeting of the creditors had been called, hope in this direction turned to unreasonable anger.
Your father's creditors are Jews, Pauline; they are not famed for humanity or forbearance.
She remembered the commencement with a clearness that left no place for doubt or hesitation; it was at the time when pursued by creditors he entered into relations with Caffie.
From Monaco he would pay Jardine by telegraph, out of the five thousand Louis, which would be more than sufficient for that; and, when he returned to Paris, he would free himself from his other creditors with what remained.
In reality, his creditorshad not harassed him very much until lately, but this state of affairs would not last when they saw him prosecuted; they also would sue him, and how could he defend himself?
My ship has gone to pieces; all my creditors are urgent, and will not hear of delay; my whole happiness depends on this one day; do just lend me ten thousand sequins for a time.
He ceased to pay the money which he owed; mistrust of him became general; all his creditors pressed him at the same time; Omar knew no one who could assist him in this crisis of perplexity.
This was true, as the miser's creditors knew to their cost.
Lydgate, in total ignorance of her expectations, was seeing the bills come in, and feeling that Dover's use of his advantage over other creditors was imminent.
Rosamond had a gleam of returning cheerfulness when the house was freed from the threatening figure, and when all the disagreeable creditors were paid.
Are we cer- [16] tain that our foreign creditors will continue patient, and ready to proportion their forbearance to our delays?
There came divers of Antonio's creditors in my company to Venice that swear he cannot choose but break.
Five talents is his debt; His means most short, his creditors most strait.
Latterly, the publisher has found that a bankrupt bookseller has few creditors besides publishers, and has come to a realizing sense of the futility of clogging the distributing machinery.
The firm has sold since over two hundred thousand copies of that book and its creditors received a hundred cents on the dollar.
But an infinitesimal something remains, and that contains the guilt, all the same, and the creditors turn up sooner or later!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "creditors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
