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ownership of property where it is free from all debts- My grandmother own their home free and clear.
- No light switch, no water running free and clear after a turn of a tap handle.Toni Morrison -- Song of Solomon
- They're used to owning a house, paid free and clear.Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
- My reason is now free and clear, rid of the dark shadows of ignorance that my unhappy constant study of those detestable books of chivalry cast over it.Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote
- It was bigger than just one guy and one night ' and out you go, free and clear.Sarah Dessen -- This Lullaby
- You mistake, sir; I am sure no man hath any quarrel to me; my remembrance is very free and clear from any image of offence done to any man.William Shakespeare -- Twelfth Night
- He don't even own this place free and clear.Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
- Then, all of a sudden you would see a single red jersey squirt out of the pile, free and clear.Rick Bragg -- All Over but the Shoutin'
- Cash, free and clear —!Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
- In your mind, Mr. Jurgensen, did the deed read free and clear?David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
- I thought with those two Erasers taking dirt naps, we'd be free and clear, at least for a while.James Patterson -- The Angel Experiment
- She now owned the land free and clear.Nicholas Sparks -- The Best of Me
- I need fifteen million dollars to complete the Rio Norte Line, I have obtained seven million against the Taggart stock I own free and clear.Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
- Right now he's getting ready to go into the office to do some work so that he'll be free and clear by the time we go.Nicholas Sparks -- Message in a Bottle
- On applying to the assessors, I am surprised to learn that they cannot at once name a dozen in the town who own their farms free and clear.Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
- "Sorry," I said, rolling down my window and making a big show of holding them outside, my head stuck sideways to eat free and clear of the confines of the car.Sarah Dessen -- Someone Like You
- There might be an occasional meager handhold, but I'd be swinging free and clear, hundreds of feet above the rocks below, and it was a prospect I had no taste for.Louis L'Amour -- The Broken Gun
- If I went to college—at least this way, with him and Cora backing me—I'd be in debt, both literally and figuratively, at the one time when all I wanted was to be free and clear, owing no one anything at all.Sarah Dessen -- Lock and Key
- I lived in the breathtaking state of Florida, I spoiled myself by purchasing a monstrous motorcycle I owned free and clear, went through intensive prequalifications, and officially applied for a slot as an elite air crew member.Dave Peizer -- A Man Named Dave
- We'd just been talking, about what I couldn't even remember, and then Kirsten's boyfriend Brian— with the class over, they were now free and clear to make their relationship public-was telling us to look here, and the shutter snapped.Sarah Dessen -- Just Listen