All 8 Uses of
indebted
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The Count of Monte Cristo
- , was carelessly listening to a man of fifty or fifty-two years of age, with gray hair, aristocratic bearing, and exceedingly gentlemanly attire, and meanwhile making a marginal note in a volume of Gryphius's rather inaccurate, but much sought-after, edition of Horaceāa work which was much indebted to the sagacious observations of the philosophical monarch.†
Chpt 9-10
- "My dear count," said Albert, advancing to meet him, "permit me to repeat the poor thanks I offered last night, and to assure you that the remembrance of all I owe to you will never be effaced from my memory; believe me, as long as I live, I shall never cease to dwell with grateful recollection on the prompt and important service you rendered me; and also to remember that to you I am indebted even for my life."†
Chpt 37-38
- Perhaps what I am about to say may seem strange to you, who are socialists, and vaunt humanity and your duty to your neighbor, but I never seek to protect a society which does not protect me, and which I will even say, generally occupies itself about me only to injure me; and thus by giving them a low place in my esteem, and preserving a neutrality towards them, it is society and my neighbor who are indebted to me.†
Chpt 39-40
- "Where am I?" exclaimed she; "and to whom am I indebted for so happy a termination to my late dreadful alarm?"†
Chpt 47-48 *
- , but I do, as he has made me a baron and a field-marshal, and I shall never forget that for these two titles I am indebted to his happy return to France.†
Chpt 75-76
- Who, then, has counselled you to take this step, one for which the court is deeply indebted to you, and which is perfectly natural, considering your birth and your misfortunes?†
Chpt 85-86
- Can I not, like Pasta, Malibran, Grisi, acquire for myself what you would never have given me, whatever might have been your fortune, a hundred or a hundred and fifty thousand livres per annum, for which I shall be indebted to no one but myself; and which, instead of being given as you gave me those poor twelve thousand francs, with sour looks and reproaches for my prodigality, will be accompanied with acclamations, with bravos, and with flowers?†
Chpt 95-96
- Andrea was indebted for this visit to the following circumstances.†
Chpt 97-98
Definition:
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(indebted) to be grateful for a favor; or to owe money; or to be in the position of owing a debt of gratitude