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indebtedness
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  • She planted that terror of debt so deeply in her children that even now, in a changed economic pattern where indebtedness is a part of living, I become restless when a bill is two days overdue.†   (source)
  • The South foresaw itself in a state of permanent indebtedness to the financial institutions of the East unless easy money could be made available to pay its heavy debts.†   (source)
  • His total indebtedness is over ten thousand dollars.
  • He gave her a bag of groceries and a little book in which he jotted down her indebtedness.†   (source)
  • She said she'd pay me through Wells Fargo, and there was all that talk about settling up indebtedness that's so hard to give a definite character.†   (source)
  • The fact was that reflection had acquainted her with her indebtedness to Carmichael.†   (source)
  • Indeed, he claimed the indebtedness was yours to him.†   (source)
  • I make the admission of indebtedness without intending it to diminish my obligation to thee.†   (source)
  • Cursed be that mortal inter-indebtedness which will not do away with ledgers.†   (source)
  • …of him, it was he who had engineered that triumph by striving in vain to prevent her from going there, whereas if he had approved of her plan, which for that matter was quite defensible, she would have had the appearance of being there by his counsel, she would have felt herself sent there, housed there by him, and for the pleasure which she derived from entertaining those people who had so often entertained her, it was to him that she would have had to acknowledge her indebtedness.†   (source)
  • While her friend reproached her for missing the opportunity to eclipse her rivals, she was once more battling in imagination with the mounting tide of indebtedness from which she had so nearly escaped.†   (source)
  • In point of fact, it appears that Shakspeare did owe debts in all directions, and was able to use whatever he found; and the amount of indebtedness may be inferred from Malone's[543] laborious computations in regard to the First, Second, and Third parts of Henry VI.†   (source)
  • The net indebtedness of the black tenant families of the whole county must have been at least sixty thousand dollars.†   (source)
  • The Percy Driscoll estate was in such a crippled shape when its owner died that it could pay only sixty percent of its great indebtedness, and was settled at that rate.†   (source)
  • He could not tell the history of the loan, but it was more vividly present with him than ever, as well as the fact which the Vicar delicately ignored—that this relation of personal indebtedness to Bulstrode was what he had once been most resolved to avoid.†   (source)
  • The last three sentences stung Tom into a fury, and he said to himself that if his father were only alive and in reach of assassination his mother would soon find that he had a very clear notion of the size of his indebtedness to that man, and was willing to pay it up in full, and would do it too, even at risk of his life; but he kept this thought to himself; that was safest in his mother's present state.†   (source)
  • "Far to the west of this," he began again, "there is a land which may never be forgotten; if only because the world is too much its debtor, and because the indebtedness is for things that bring to men their purest pleasures.†   (source)
  • Suggestions beget suggestions; so he remembered suddenly his own great indebtedness to the man; the time he himself was in the hands of a Roman guard going, as was supposed, to a death as certain and almost as terrible as this one of the cross; the cooling drink he had at the well by Nazareth, and the divine expression of the face of him who gave it; the later goodness, the miracle of Palm-Sunday; and with these recollections, the thought of his present powerlessness to give back help…†   (source)
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