Save that I have paid my debts and incurred no others, I 'm no richer, for as yet I 've made no fortune.
Marion did not pine long after his execution, but went her way gayly, until she was driven by her debts to a pretended death and a sham funeral, at which she peeped from these windows.
In his letters to those dear to him, amid clamorous outcries about debts and discomforts, comes a deeper cry for sympathy and affection.
It seemed that when the Federal Government paid the last of its debt, the States eagerly pursued the opposite principle and created the greatest debts possible.
It stated for the first time that the party was opposed to internal improvements, a protective tariff, and the assumption of the debts of bankrupt States.
But the West received notice from the leaders that in the event of success, the debts of their States would be laid upon the broad shoulders of the Union and that internal improvements would be resumed.
The debts of the Confederate, state, and city governments of the South had grown so rapidly that no one knew just what they were; the armies of Lee and Johnston were forced to forage upon the country nearest at hand.
The Confederate Government borrowed hundreds of millions from the planters, and the States likewise piled up debts in unprecedented fashion in maintenance of the same great cause.
Just as the West asked for more hard money English bankers and other business men called sharply for payment of outstanding debts due by leading business men in the East.
To have attempted to force upon the people the payment of the debts their leaders had fixed upon them would have caused wholesale migrations to Wisconsin, Iowa, and Texas.
The debts of the Northwest to the East and to Europe cannot well be estimated, but they were enormous.
Then there thedebts owing to tradesmen and mechanics, which have not been paid for a year; and the people's wages must be paid and repairs attended to; it will take about six thousand thalers.
He had paid his debts to Braesig and Moses, with his employer he stood on the best footing.
I got in debt there, and these first debts brought others in their train.
Well, then you will leave your money in the estate; but there are other debts which must be paid; there are Pomuchelskopp's eight thousand thalers.
He has already paid debts for me, and now he is sick, it would vex him too much.
He suspects that you have concealed debts from him, and it troubles him.
Well, he has been in a good place, for many years; but I know for a certainty, that he had old debts to pay which were not insignificant.
The court was chiefly used for the recovery of small debtsunder L10, but its business was much reduced by the extension of the Courts of Conscience.
Its debts amounted to three-quarters of a million, and the dividend it eventually paid was three and twopence in the pound.
Neild found at his visit to Newgate in 1810, fourteen men and women who had lain there ten, eleven, and thirteen years for debts of a few shillings, weighted by treble the amount of costs.
The costs in heavier debts always doubled the sum; if the arrest was made in the country it trebled it.
Then there were other abuses that led to grave results, such as trading illicitly with natives and then absconding with their debts unpaid; the whole factory in such cases becoming responsible for the debts.
It eases my heart a good deal, as rhyme is the coin with which a poet pays his debts of honour or gratitude.
As families increase, debts increase, until many a man finds himself in a net of difficulties with no way out but crime.
He is generally driven by debts and harassed in all his efforts to get a living.
She carried fifty dollars in her pocket--and that was practically all the money Marthy possessed, and had been saved for the debts that harassed her.
Marthy said not another word about debtsor the duties of parents.
Likely as not he's pilin' up the debts instead of payin' 'em off as you're doing.
But that I cannot, and I prefer to pay my own debts by my sufferings.
The reason is that my former friend has left unpaid debts here, and that I have been recognised as his companion.
But whichever way his affairs are settled, the man who owes money is the unhappy slave of his creditors until his last debts are paid.
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: It is my duty to recommend to your serious consideration those objects which by the Constitution are placed particularly within your sphere--the national debts and taxes.
The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to be careful to prevent their growth in our own.
Penn spent his last years in trying to sell the government of his province to the Crown for a sum that would enable him to pay his debts and to restore his family to prosperity.
The thrifty Thomas had thus saddled his bad debts on the province and gained a reputation for generosity at the same time.
With all debts paid and prosperity increasing, Penn's sons became very rich men.
There have now been recognized in the collections at Cairo, Florence, London, Paris and Bologna several Egyptian imitations of the Aegean style which can be set off against the many debts which the centres of Aegean culture owed to Egypt.
The abolition of debts was carried into effect, but the land distribution was put off by Agesilaus on various pretexts.
The accumulation of debt upon it was prevented by the prohibition of interest, the release of debts every seventh year, and the reversion of the land to the proprietor, or his heirs, at each return of the year of jubilee.
A powerful but not disinterested ally was found in the king's uncle, Agesilaus, who hoped to rid himself of his debts without losing his vast estates.
The other and probably the correct view is that any considerable sum of money paid to a child at that child's request is an advancement; thus payment of a son's debts of honour has been held to be an advancement.
Some difficulties had arisen between France and the dey of Algiers with reference to the debts contracted to Bacri and Busnach, two Algerine Jews who had supplied corn to the French government under the Directory.
The constitution of 1901 prohibits the increase of the debt for any other purposes than the suppression of insurrection or resistance to invasion, and the assumption of corporate debts by cities and towns is also restricted.
Her separate property is liable for debts contracted by the husband for necessaries for the family.
Her personal property is subject to debts incurred for family expenses.
In that capacity he has a right to whatever movables or debts have not yet been 'reduced into possession' and, when the debts have been paid, he keeps these goods as his own.
During the marriage the husband is in effect liable to the whole extent of his property for debts incurred or wrongs committed by his wife before the marriage, also for wrongs committed during the marriage.
Wife may contract debts for necessaries for herself and children upon credit of husband.
In many countries the governments have had to declare moratorium, which means that none need pay their rent and debts until further notice.
That week she sent me two hundred dollars, which paid our board-bill and debts accrued on telephone, telegraph and cable messages.
Will the Government be trusted with any future Loans, if their Debtsare settled upon a precarious Bottom?
That those Bills be to discharge the Debts due and owing by the Government: And that the said Bills be circulated in London.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "debts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
