installment plan

But the Kleins seemed to need a great many things and bought them all on the installment plan.

Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March

That winter my mother and brother came and we set up housekeeping, buying furniture on the installment plan, being cheated and yet knowing no way to avoid it.

Richard Wright -- Black Boy

They went clothed in steel and equipped with sword and lance and battle-axe, and if they couldn’t persuade a person to try a sewing-machine on the installment plan, or a melodeon, or a barbed-wire fence, or a prohibition journal, or any of the other thousand and one things they canvassed for, they removed him and passed on.

Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

But some of the machinery would be left, since new pieces could always be bought on the installment plan—gaunt, staring, motionless wheels rising from mounds of brick rubble and ragged weeds with a quality profoundly astonishing, and gutted boilers lifting their rusting and unsmoking stacks with an air stubborn, baffled and bemused upon a stumppocked scene of profound and peaceful desolation, unplowed, untilled, gutting slowly into red and choked ravines beneath the long quiet rainsЕ

William Faulkner -- Light in August

They bought the skeleton gratefully, on the installment planЕЕ Later the salesman was less genial.

Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith

Miss Ostrovsky reminded me of the amazing scene in Death on the Installment Plan where Celine wants to stop the bustling of a street crowd.

Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five

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Installment plans for those with the foresight to do their planning in advance—for we all have to die, Oscar, we all have to die, and a sensible man might as well sit down over a friendly glass of beer and make his plans with a well-established firm he can trust.

Robert A. Heinlein -- Glory Road

That’s my installment plan.

Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged

"Installment plan?" said the man.

Kate DiCamillo -- Because of Winn-Dixie

An installment plan," I said, ignoring the parrot, "you know, where I promise to give you my allowance every week and you give me the leash and the collar now."

Kate DiCamillo -- Because of Winn-Dixie