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lacking assets to meet financial obligations

I passed through then to another reach of bodily suffering, the pain already become a thing memorial, an insolvent fever in the tissue and bones.
Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life

We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Military-Industrial Complex Speech
Just as we should have come upon him, he died insolvent.
Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
With the CAI's finances dipping toward insolvency, Mortenson was now averaging one talk every week he wasn't in Pakistan.
Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea
Having died insolvent, it had been purchased, at a bargain, by Legree, who used it, as he did everything else, merely as an implement for money-making.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
— when I told you how she, on the contrary, deserted me: the idea of my insolvency cooled, or rather extinguished, her flame in a moment.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
I am not sure that I shall succeed, but it is the only thing that will save me from insolvency, and I am trying.'
E.M. Forster -- Howards End
Would we have ended up like Uncle Ted and Aunt Olivia—bitter, divorced, financially insolvent, and living in Cleveland and Reno, respectively?
Meg Cabot -- Queen of Babble
Insolvent debtors of minor grade, together with the promiscuous lame ducks of morality found in the Navy a convenient and secure refuge.
Herman Melville -- Billy Budd
In the meantime, the giant First National Bank of Midland, Texas, collapsed, judged insolvent by government financial inspectors.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
The shabbiness of these attendants upon shabbiness, the poverty of these insolvent waiters upon insolvency, was a sight to see.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
When grandmother applied to him for payment, he said the estate was insolvent, and the law prohibited payment.
Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Moreover, on going into Alfredston one day, he was introduced to patristic literature by finding at the bookseller's some volumes of the Fathers which had been left behind by an insolvent clergyman of the neighbourhood.
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
She had never been so near the brink of insolvency; but she could at least manage to meet her weekly hotel bill, and having settled the heaviest of her previous debts out of the money she had received from Trenor, she had a still fair margin of credit to go upon.
Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth
We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state, but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force,[224] and do lean and beg day and night continually.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
Public spirit was not held in high esteem at St. Ogg's, and men who busied themselves with political questions were regarded with some suspicion, as dangerous characters; they were usually persons who had little or no business of their own to manage, or, if they had, were likely enough to become insolvent.
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
At last this document appeared to be got out of the way, somehow; at all events it ceased to be the rock-ahead it had been; and Mrs. Micawber informed me that 'her family' had decided that Mr. Micawber should apply for his release under the Insolvent Debtors Act, which would set him free, she expected, in about six weeks.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
There had been the Olive War, the Tuna Fish Discrepancy, which almost bankrupted both nations, the Roman Rift, which did send them both into insolvency, only to be followed by the Discord of the Emeralds, in which they both got rich again, chiefly by banding together for a brief period and robbing everybody within sailing distance.
William Goldman -- The Princess Bride
The better class of minds, however, did not need to be informed that the Powlers were an ancient stock, who could trace themselves so exceedingly far back that it was not surprising if they sometimes lost themselves — which they had rather frequently done, as respected horse-flesh, blind-hookey, Hebrew monetary transactions, and the Insolvent Debtors' Court.
Charles Dickens -- Hard Times
Some people said he had speculated unfortunately in railways, others that he was being bled by one of the most insatiable members of her profession; and to every report of threatened insolvency Beaufort replied by a fresh extravagance: the building of a new row of orchid-houses, the purchase of a new string of race-horses, or the addition of a new Meissonnier or Cabanel to his picture-gallery.
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence

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