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lien
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  • A largish sum was missing (not three figures but four, according to a lady with blue hair who worked in the telephone room) and they'd got it back, nearly all of it, and they'd stuck a lien on his pension.†   (source)
  • If you pay it before they close the town offices this afternoon, no lien.†   (source)
  • The lien was little more than a formality.†   (source)
  • I just meant that a lien isn't much compared to what they could do if you got seriously in arrears.†   (source)
  • Hollering "lien" at someone who has missed on quarterly property-tax payment is pretty weird.†   (source)
  • And if n you don't git no lien, you cain't buy no seed and guano.†   (source)
  • He wasn't telling you they had slapped a lien on your house, Annie , he was telling you they would have to if you didn't cough up by the time the town offices closed tonight.†   (source)
  • 'What's a lien?' she asked again.†   (source)
  • Liens!†   (source)
  • The guys all go to signing liens at once; he's beat them so many times at poker and blackjack they can't wait to get back at him, and this is a certain sure thing.†   (source)
  • Such a lien is not to be paid off; the more you pay them, the more they will demand; the greater the values you seek or achieve, the more vulnerably helpless you become.†   (source)
  • He paid me the compliment of saying that he was very glad I had the living though you had come across his tactics, and had praised me up as a lien and a Tillotson, and that sort of thing, till Mrs. Casaubon would hear of no one else.†   (source)
  • But with the carrying out of the crop-lien system, the deterioration of the land, and the slavery of debt, the position of the metayers has sunk to a dead level of practically unrewarded toil.†   (source)
  • The crop-lien system which is depopulating the fields of the South is not simply the result of shiftlessness on the part of Negroes, but is also the result of cunningly devised laws as to mortgages, liens, and misdemeanors, which can be made by conscienceless men to entrap and snare the unwary until escape is impossible, further toil a farce, and protest a crime.†   (source)
  • Mr. Casaubon was out of the question, not merely because he declined duty of this sort, but because Featherstone had an especial dislike to him as the rector of his own parish, who had a lien on the land in the shape of tithe, also as the deliverer of morning sermons, which the old man, being in his pew and not at all sleepy, had been obliged to sit through with an inward snarl.†   (source)
  • The crop-lien system which is depopulating the fields of the South is not simply the result of shiftlessness on the part of Negroes, but is also the result of cunningly devised laws as to mortgages, liens, and misdemeanors, which can be made by conscienceless men to entrap and snare the unwary until escape is impossible, further toil a farce, and protest a crime.†   (source)
  • But my assistance may give him the means To restore his lands and remove his liens.†   (source)
  • 26:10 And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.†   (source)
  • Then read he me, if that I shall not lien, Of Hercules, and of his Dejanire, That caused him to set himself on fire.†   (source)
  • 68:13 Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.†   (source)
  • On peril of my soul, I shall not lien, As me was taught to helpe with your eyen, Was nothing better for to make you see, Than struggle with a man upon a tree: God wot, I did it in full good intent.†   (source)
  • Ye wise wives, that can understand, Thus should ye speak, and *bear them wrong on hand,* *make them For half so boldely can there no man believe falsely* Swearen and lien as a woman can.†   (source)
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