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  • Two hundred and forty roubles ... to pay the interest on the mortgage.   (source)
    mortgage = a real estate loan; or pledging something for a loan
  • Two-thirds of my income goes in paying the interest of mortgages.   (source)
    mortgages = real estate loans
  • "It's mortgaged up to the hilt."†   (source)
  • I gotta pay the mortgage, save for the kid's college, and handle the endless stream of cases….†   (source)
  • My grandparents took the money they had in the home in the Bronx, decades of savings and mortgage payments, and gave it to my mother so that she could pay for my first year of military school.†   (source)
  • The new owners were just about to move into the building when events took an unexpected turn: A mortgage company swooped down and repossessed their apartments.†   (source)
  • We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going.†   (source)
  • A hundred and sixty acres, no mortgage.†   (source)
  • I should be swooning by now Scaled back, triple-mortgaged, with stipulations to sell off some land and forgo a few improvements, Darrel's loan gets approved.†   (source)
  • But I suppose I can borrow from my cousins and stall the mortgage man a couple of days.†   (source)
  • And I'm not buying it with a mortgage either.†   (source)
  • The mortgage is approved and the move is scheduled for spring.†   (source)
  • Dad pays for the mortgage and helps with the bills, but it's not enough, and Mom is too proud to ask for more.†   (source)
  • "Not feeling well?" said Mr. Vogel blandly—balding midwesterner in rimless glasses, prim in his reefer coat, tough luck to you if he was the banker and you were late with the mortgage.†   (source)
  • By any measure this is a lot of money-it equals the mortgage on my Seattle home-and the quoted price did not include airfare to Nepal or personal equipment, No company' fee was higher-indeed, some of his competitors charged a third as much.†   (source)
  • She mortgaged her property and borrowed money from a neighbor for her journey.†   (source)
  • Already Mr. Henson had called about our late house payment on the first mortgage.†   (source)
  • There were salesmen, mortgage brokers, lawyers from Houston, and local attorneys.†   (source)
  • Soon creditors began appearing at the pharmacy demanding repayment of mortgages secured by the store's furnishings and its stock of salves and ointments and other goods.†   (source)
  • We can sail off with characters, freed of the limitations of our tuition payments and mortgage rates; we can soar into interpretation and speculation.†   (source)
  • The envelopes were identified with his father's familiar scrawl: Mortgage.†   (source)
  • Anybody Baby Suggs knew, let alone loved, who hadn't run off or been hanged, got rented out, loaned out, bought up, brought back, stored up, mortgaged, won, stolen or seized.†   (source)
  • Back in the States, Timur owns a real-estate mortgage company, and Idris is all but certain that he is waist-deep in some kind of mortgage fraud.†   (source)
  • After Paradise Pickles closed down, some rice fields were sold (along with their mortgages) to pay off the bank loans.†   (source)
  • It was proving difficult to shift, because the latest interested buyer hadn't been granted a mortgage.†   (source)
  • The Sunday paper slaps my driveway with a thud that opens one eye, pays the mortgage and puts thirty years of work on the line.†   (source)
  • Four months later, the whole big house lady lost her mortgage battle and disappeared in the night with her three kids.†   (source)
  • The damage was minor, but we had just mortgaged our lives for the next thirty years to buy this house, and we knew it didn't bode well.†   (source)
  • The kind who gets married, raises a family, has a mortgage and a big sloppy dog.†   (source)
  • The bookkeeper at pih headquarters cashed the checks, paid his bills—and his mother's mortgage—and put whatever was left in the treasury.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist was sure that it was not the old-fashioned kind of love that leads to a shared home, a shared mortgage, Christmas trees, and children.†   (source)
  • So my mom had to mortgage the ranch.†   (source)
  • "We couldn't afford the mortgage if she took a local job."†   (source)
  • This was a-bit disconcerting, but they offered to assume our mortgage and pay us the balance in cash.†   (source)
  • They fell behind on their mortgage.†   (source)
  • Me, I've got seventeen years left on a twenty-year mortgage and twin girls who have their hearts set on Bridgton Academy.†   (source)
  • Here's Gray got the belle of the ball mortgaged for all her dances, and won't even give me an introduction.†   (source)
  • Doctors, lawyers, contractors, stockbrokers, auto mechanics, mortgage brokers, financial planners: they all enjoy a gigantic informational advantage.†   (source)
  • Until the day of her wedding she dreamed about a legendary kingdom, in spite of the fact that her father, Don Fernando, had to mortgage the house in order to buy her trousseau.†   (source)
  • People wrote things like, "So what if her boyfriend's parents took a second mortgage on their house to buy the new parents a condo or a starter home?"†   (source)
  • Makes the paychecks stretch further if you have just one mortgage or rent payment.†   (source)
  • Christmas was on the horizon, and with a mortgage and a family to feed, Larry had no choice but to follow others in his Arkansas union and find work out of state.†   (source)
  • The mortgage was about six hundred dollars a month.†   (source)
  • One night over dinner, she explained to us that she wasn't left with enough income to continue paying all the bills and the mortgage.†   (source)
  • Its fragile economy, a life of splendor based on the perennial mortgaging of the next year's crop, was in his hands alone.†   (source)
  • Besides visiting his father, Cedric started his summer job, an office gig with Fannie Mae, the federally backed mortgage banker, that's all ease and air-conditioning at $7.†   (source)
  • …atop her head, and seemed to be narrating a dream as it came to him: "… and your grandson's grandson will pilot a giant ship that shuttles between the Earth and the moon like an omnibus, and on the moon he'll have a very small house, and he'll fall behind on the mortgage and have to take in lodgers, and one of those lodgers will be a beautiful woman with whom he'll fall very deeply in moon-love, which isn't quite the same as Earth-love because of the difference in gravity there …."†   (source)
  • "At first it was just a little piece on mortgages in The Mail," she says, as though she hasn't heard me.†   (source)
  • How much is the mortgage?†   (source)
  • I work, have a mortgage, a nine-year-old car, two dogs, and bills just like everyone else.†   (source)
  • It was the standard business: vehicle loans, mortgages, credit card balances.†   (source)
  • I could have bought her one on credit, could have been careful with my money and made the mortgage payments.†   (source)
  • The street was finally paved under the WPA program, and a new realty company picked up the mortgage on the buildings.†   (source)
  • The third time, they took out a second mortgage to pay for a clinic in Hawaii.†   (source)
  • Because I'd mortgage the system to build a branch to any district around Ellis Wyatt.†   (source)
  • Where is this Book of Origins for which we supposedly mortgaged our future?†   (source)
  • Ever now and agin you make enough to cover the mortgage and taxes and pay off the store thet give you credit.†   (source)
  • I was a successful mortgage broker, married, seemingly poised at the sweet prime of my life.†   (source)
  • She had very little money to make a down payment, so there was a rather large mortgage.†   (source)
  • The fishing business became somewhat lucrative—we were at least making enough money to pay the mortgage and utilities and take care of the rest of our needs—but I still didn't believe it was my, ahem, calling in life.†   (source)
  • If you charge a hundred dollars an hour, lovely lady, I'll mortgage my house and sign up for five years of therapy.†   (source)
  • When he would explain that he had paid his mortgages, all of his actual credit cards, dutifully for thirty years, they seemed to care, and value this, but then not so much.†   (source)
  • Pa and Granny would provide the down payment for the property, and Phil and Kay would assume the monthly mortgage payments as my grandparents eased into retirement.†   (source)
  • You are, however, officially notified of note of seizure by the Onderil Banking Corporation for nonpayment of mortgage on the Spinward Crossing.†   (source)
  • Her husband's parents could have sold her, mortgaged her, stoned her.†   (source)
  • There was nothing of any great importance, except heartening items in the Kiplinger Letter, predicting another increase in FHA mortgage rates, and better retail business in the South during the Christmas season.†   (source)
  • …sounding odious, but he was able to, in a guttural hybrid English whose dominant overtone, Sophie's ear had learned to detect, was Brooklynese: "Forty thousand dollars a year income before taxes; a seventy-five-thousand-dollar home in the most elegant part of St. Albans, Queens, free of mortgage, with wall-to-wall carpeting plus indirect lighting in every room; three cars, including a Cadillac Fleetwood with all accessories, and a thirty-two-foot Chris-Craft sleeps six in comfort.†   (source)
  • He was having trouble now meeting the mortgage payments on the houses he had bought, and he hoped to solve the problem by selling one.†   (source)
  • About eighty per cent of the girls who came to him needed money to pay off a mortgage.†   (source)
  • 'Mortgage you,' we say.†   (source)
  • "Listen, Mr. Shiftlet," she said, "my well never goes dry and my house is always warm in the winter and there's no mortgage on a thing about this place.†   (source)
  • It's all mortgaged— JAMIE Because you always buy more instead of paying off mortgages.†   (source)
  • To him it was always something postponed, like the paying off of the mortgage.†   (source)
  • We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage.†   (source)
  • He was beginning to think that if he could pay off some of the mortgage, and add an extra room to his house, perhaps get some furniture, then he could think of getting married.†   (source)
  • All the time I was a boy we had a mortgage hanging over us.   (source)
    mortgage = a real estate loan; or pledging something for a loan
  • What with mortgages and arrears, I'm as short o' cash as a roadside pauper.   (source)
    mortgages = real estate loans
  • Nothing but that mortgage coming up at one.†   (source)
  • He stared straight ahead with his mortgaged eye.†   (source)
  • He proposed to settle his debts by giving the group a mortgage secured by his various properties.†   (source)
  • The Ericsons had three hundred seventy acres and a mortgage.†   (source)
  • I walked up to the door to the mortgage company office and pushed.†   (source)
  • As a Paravan and a man with mortgaged body parts, he considered it his duty.†   (source)
  • He had come to discuss a problem with a mortgage.†   (source)
  • He had five hundred acres and no mortgage.†   (source)
  • It was listed under real estate, and from the size of it, she assumed it was a mortgage on a home.†   (source)
  • I'd have to find another hundred grand to clear the mortgage, after selling it.†   (source)
  • Their mortgage took nearly half his salary, and credit card bills consumed another chunk.†   (source)
  • One of them is from a mortgage company so I tear it open.†   (source)
  • We haven't paid the mortgage in some months, you know, because of Patrick's bills.†   (source)
  • "What if we can't qualify for a mortgage?"†   (source)
  • She could not bring herself to think about the mortgage except payment by payment.†   (source)
  • She paid off the mortgage on her house, for she was still in debt to Senator Seward for it.†   (source)
  • We took out a second mortgage on our house to buy half of the company.†   (source)
  • It's I who'd have to grant you that kind of mortgage-and I don't.†   (source)
  • What's the matter, are you worried about the mortgage?†   (source)
  • The last of their three children was finishing college, and they had retired their mortgage.†   (source)
  • The one that gave them the mortgage when the other one closed," he says.†   (source)
  • They've done mortgages, store cards, pensions, all the usual cobblers …"†   (source)
  • You never missed a mortgage payment or a day of church.†   (source)
  • I can think of only one reason my parents would need a mortgage: to pay my Ivy League tuition.†   (source)
  • I have no mortgage on you, no collateral, no guns, no chains.†   (source)
  • I know about mortgages and I know about life insurance and I know about unit trusts.†   (source)
  • The first mortgage is eighty thousand, the second is just under fifteen.†   (source)
  • Who would accept a house with such a big first mortgage as collateral?†   (source)
  • You guys go to the bank and line up a mortgage, and we'll close in ninety days."†   (source)
  • "Now," said Galt, "do you see what I meant when I said that a zero can't hold a mortgage over life?†   (source)
  • Well, I hope I can chip in on the mortgage payments.†   (source)
  • They'll be more sympathetic than a bunch of rednecks who can barely pay their mortgages."†   (source)
  • Ability was like a mortgage on you that you could never pay off.†   (source)
  • Enough to make the mortgage payments and more.†   (source)
  • So Land is offering you just enough to pay off both mortgages.†   (source)
  • That Mortgage Company was a sort of noisy outfit that did a lot of advertising about easy credit.†   (source)
  • We so appreciate your offer on the mortgage, by the way.†   (source)
  • He had good reason to be curious since most of his own assets were so heavily mortgaged.†   (source)
  • Perish, because we have learned that a zero cannot hold a mortgage over life.†   (source)
  • He mortgaged his own house and land a dozen times.†   (source)
  • Well, the last legal owner of the factory was The People's Mortgage Company, of Rome, Wisconsin.†   (source)
  • She did not sell the house but she mortgaged it for every penny she could get.†   (source)
  • "When we came to this country the lawyers is all waiting: 'Mortgage!†   (source)
  • It's all mortgaged— JAMIE Because you always buy more instead of paying off mortgages.†   (source)
  • It was becoming harder to meet the payments on their mortgages.†   (source)
  • Thousands of Post-it notes advertising The Martin-Gale Mortgage Corp. are piled beside one desk in a rickety pyramid.†   (source)
  • That is to say nothing of other expenses such as mortgage, health insurance, utilities blah blah blah…… Any ideas?†   (source)
  • If we could buy a place and rent it out to cover the mortgage, we'd have a nice little investment and a place to move to in retirement.†   (source)
  • My heart would break, it really would, if, midbite of bubblegum ice cream, he turned to me and said: You know, the interesting thing about a second mortgage is ….†   (source)
  • His mother was always struggling to find ways to pay the mortgage, keep the electricity on, and feed all the children.†   (source)
  • His mother spends hours on the phone and has all the names changed on the bank account, the mortgage, the bills.†   (source)
  • Kids shouting and skidding in the playground with no idea what future Hells awaited them: boring jobs and ruinous mortgages and bad marriages and hair loss and hip replacements and lonely cups of coffee in an empty house and a colostomy bag at the hospital.†   (source)
  • I know this from Bud, because he's processed home mortgages for three of the Infertility guys and they've all bought properties for over two hundred thousand.†   (source)
  • "You will care when we're forced to live in a much worse place, when we can't make our mortgage payments," he said, perfectly reasonably.†   (source)
  • During the Depression, Mr. Finckney Sewell, a Maycomb resident long noted for his independence of mind, disentombed his own grandfather and extracted all his gold teeth to pay off a mortgage.†   (source)
  • Open boxes contain stacks of paper from old dot matrix printers, detailing the expenses and income of the Martin-Gale Mortgage Corp. On one of the desks, someone has stacked brochures for subdivisions into a single-story house of cards.†   (source)
  • One day when they were in the records vault at the courthouse running a land title, Atticus hauled out a heavy mortgage book, turned stark white, and dropped it.†   (source)
  • But the places we look at are either too expensive or too shabby, or the rent won't cover the monthly mortgage.†   (source)
  • I knew we didn't-we'd taken on a big mortgage, he had some debts left over from a bad business deal his father had coaxed him into pursuing —I just had to deal with it.†   (source)
  • I worry that he is going to ask me for a second mortgage on The Bar, or to borrow against our life insurance, or to sell off some not-to-be-touched-for-thirty-years stock.†   (source)
  • With the flashlight crooked between my neck and shoulder, I started to look through desk drawers again, paying special attention to the June desk: some napkins, some still-sharp pencils, memos about mortgages addressed to one Dennis McMahon, an empty pack of Marlboro Lights, and an almost-full bottle of red nail polish.†   (source)
  • Does he have a big fat mortgage hanging over his head, with twenty-seven years to go on the first and twenty-five on the home equity line of credit, which is set at prime plus one and constantly spiking?†   (source)
  • , my photo is stolen from a popup ad for mortgages (blond, smiling, benefiting from historically low interest rates).†   (source)
  • Harold Clark and my father used to argue at our kitchen table about who should get the Ericson land when they finally lost their mortgage.†   (source)
  • What saved it from becoming another grubby little Alabama community was that Maycomb's proportion of professional people ran high: one went to Maycomb to have his teeth pulled, his wagon fixed, his heart listened to, his money deposited, his mules vetted, his soul saved, his mortgage extended.†   (source)
  • As the meeting progressed—and grew heated—the attorney who previously had wanted to accept Holmes's mortgage stepped out of Chamberlin's office and entered the room where Holmes waited, ostensibly for a drink of water.†   (source)
  • When Mammachi arrived in the kitchen, in her petticoat and pale pink dressing gown with rickrack edging, Vellya Paapen climbed up the kitchen steps and offered her his mortgaged eye.†   (source)
  • I'd expected her to come home that night, brimming with curse words and fury, but all I got was an embarrassed smile as she slipped past me to her room in the house she had double-mortgaged to cover Tanner's retainer.†   (source)
  • He financed the purchase mainly with money he raised by mortgaging the store's fixtures and stock, agreeing to repay the loan at a rate of one hundred dollars a month (about three thousand dollars in twenty-first-century value).†   (source)
  • Almost immediately, the financial slide began, but was artificially buoyed by extravagant bank loans that Chacko raised by mortgaging the family's rice fields around the Ayemenem House.†   (source)
  • There'd been no fiddling with that, which went to Ty's uncle, and amounted to about four hundred acres, no mortgage.†   (source)
  • My father most certainly disapproved of Cal Ericson's aspirations, which seemed to be merely to get along, pay his mortgage, and enjoy himself as much as possible.†   (source)
  • But he had the satisfaction of knowing that his lightning-quick reflexes (despite his mortgaged eye) and his presence of mind had put an end to the bloodthirsty wanderings of a pedophile ghost.†   (source)
  • I pay two hundred dollars a month, every month, and I think of it as my "regret money," and though what I am regretful for mutates and evolves, I am glad to pay it, the only mortgage I will ever be given.†   (source)
  • How he put it down for just one moment while he kneeled to wash the river-grit out of his mortgaged eye (there was grit in the river sometimes, particularly in the rainy months) when he caught the first whiff of cigar smoke.†   (source)
  • Anyway, she was not so sure she wanted a stable relationship herself—with a partner and a mortgage and kids.†   (source)
  • He trembled with the thought of the white men in the bank—the men who helped him buy and mortgage houses—discovering that this raggedy bootlegger was his sister.†   (source)
  • Though no one else in town knew it, the orchard had been heavily mortgaged, and on the day David had moved to town, his father-in-law had hit him up for a loan.†   (source)
  • A great many couples don't, especially when they've got four kids, a mortgage and ten or twelve years of marriage under their belts.†   (source)
  • One folder with black spine marked HOUSEHOLD and one folder with blue spine marked FINANCIAL DOCUMENTS containing information about a mortgage and loans for the apartment.†   (source)
  • The Realtor they had appealed to for help had paid off their overdue mortgage payments in exchange for the deed to the property.†   (source)
  • While Basil's legs pushed down toward the third rung, Mat-tie would be working two jobs to carry the mortgage on the house.†   (source)
  • Navy financing helped keep the mortgage about par with their current rent payment, and in April they purchased a three-bedroom house in the Virginia Beach suburbs.†   (source)
  • She asked me if we could afford the mortgage payments, and I told her there were none, that she could run around and around in it banging on pots and pans with a hairbrush, and no one could do a thing about it.†   (source)
  • And you recognize that a $72 charge on a Banana Republic card six years ago is not a very significant indicator next to thirty years of perfect performance with bills and mortgage payments?†   (source)
  • Clean the house and make a meal and she could spend the rest of her days reading stupid books she checked out from the library and watching television and taking naps and never having to worry about a utility bill or mortgage payment or people who talked about him behind his back.†   (source)
  • When Luke asked if there was any way he could access the money he needed to pay off the mortgage, Sanders excused himself from the room, only to return fifteen minutes later, where he calmly explained to Luke that the senior vice president of the bank with whom he had spoken was open to extending the lower payments for another year and perhaps even deferring the interest payments entirely for the time being, if that was Luke's preference.†   (source)
  • However, it will be held in orbit until full payment is made of back charges on mortgage including any appropriate penalties and unpaid parking including levied fines.†   (source)
  • But all that had pushed his credit score below 700, and any kind of loan, let alone a third mortgage — he'd taken out a second before the Banana Republic debacle — was out of reach.†   (source)
  • There was the mortgage on the house in Auburn, which she never seemed to be able to pay off, no matter how hard she worked, and she wanted to make another trip to Maryland.†   (source)
  • For several months once, Mary Burns had to make the mortgage payments on their Manhattan apartment, lest they lose it to the bank.†   (source)
  • You've got your own mortgage, your own kid, plus that old jag sportster that's going to half-buck you to death.'†   (source)
  • After all, anyone selling a home can now get online and gather her own information about sales trends and housing inventory and mortgage rates.†   (source)
  • I had also visited on the day they were to inform the bank what their decision was about refinancing their mortgage, which was six months in arrears.†   (source)
  • She and Joe had a little over four thousand dollars in their savings account after fifteen years. just about enough to cover three quarters of ,their outstanding debts, if you excluded the mortgage on the farm.†   (source)
  • She is the one with all the information: the inventory of similar houses, the recent sales trends, the tremors of the mortgage market, perhaps even a lead on an interested buyer.†   (source)
  • "Not that he's got much money now, what with the mortgage and everything … But he says your articles are very good!†   (source)
  • " "My parents didn't have a mortgage.†   (source)
  • Mr. Shouper at the Casco Bank in Bridgton had explained to her that if the money was put in a special trust account, it plus the lottery money would make nearly all the outstanding mortgage payments over the next five years.†   (source)
  • After the sale and closing I'll call Mr. Finch at the bank and instruct him to buy out Mr. Hickey's mortgage on the vacant store and building.†   (source)
  • On mortgages.†   (source)
  • I've been secretly eager to get rid of such stuff as canceled checks and mortgage and bank statements, and I'm perversely pleased to find that I've kept it all so orderly, which makes the disposal somehow worry-free and simple.†   (source)
  • The mortgage payments were no small trouble, what with his sister gone; he needed to improve his profits, dramatically.†   (source)
  • The only reason he has it is because the original buyer's mortgage didn't go through, and he's got a shopping center going so he needs cash.†   (source)
  • Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to "produce it.†   (source)
  • He'll write us a second mortgage.†   (source)
  • He passed the offices of The Ford County Times, the Tea Shoppe, which was only now coming to life, a haberdashery where he bought his suits on sale, a black-owned café called Claude's where he ate every Friday with the other white liberals in town, an antiques store owned by a crook Jake had sued twice, a bank still holding the second mortgage on his home and tied up in the same lawsuit, and a county office building where the new district attorney worked when he was in town.†   (source)
  • He could close a rather thick and depressing fish file, pay off the two mortgages, get the banks off his back, and pocket some cash.†   (source)
  • It is pain, regardless of its nature or cause, pain as a primary absolute, that gives you a mortgage on all of existence.†   (source)
  • But to help a man who has no virtues, to help him on the ground of his suffering as such, to accept his faults, his need, as a claim —is to accept the mortgage of a zero on your values.†   (source)
  • Max died in the fire that destroyed their beautiful and beloved and heavily mortgaged Victorian home on Adams Street, three years ago.†   (source)
  • That's how it stands now-the South Dakotans and the bank and the attorney for the creditors of The People's Mortgage Company all suing one another, all claiming this factory, and nobody having the right to move a wheel in it, except that there's no wheels left to move.†   (source)
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