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  • I am most obviously indebted to Mr. Patel.†   (source)
  • I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn't have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.†   (source)
  • But after a while, taking all those answers made me feel sort of indebted to her.†   (source)
  • I am indebted to my grandmother for many things—among them the use of an artful question.†   (source)
  • Third Wife was of course indebted to Second Wife for arranging this, so there was no argument over management of the household.†   (source)
  • Mae did so, and though Annie insisted she pulled no strings, Mae was sure that Annie had, and she felt indebted beyond all measure.†   (source)
  • He continues, "Hiro-san, I am deeply indebted to you for this once-in-a-lifetime chance to perform my small works before such an audience."†   (source)
  • I am most indebted to you for your advice, Mr Stevens.†   (source)
  • Desi has ensured I will be forever indebted to him.†   (source)
  • "So you know to whom you'll be eternally indebted?"†   (source)
  • I am indeed indebted to you.†   (source)
  • My mother had died opening, then quickly closing, Apophis's prison; so naturally Bast felt indebted to our parents.†   (source)
  • We are indebted to the numerous writers and researchers whose works have been indispensable to our own perspective on the period.†   (source)
  • It's a wonderful moment and a rare one and I'm certainly indebted.†   (source)
  • And the couple is forever indebted to her benevolence.†   (source)
  • I am also indebted to Marianne Gingher and Bland Simpson at UNC-Chapel Hill, who gave me the second best job I've ever had and, more importantly, continue to understand why writing is the first.†   (source)
  • And if we meet again, you'll find I'm not my cheeriest when I feel indebted."†   (source)
  • Colonel Cathcart was greatly indebted to Colonel Korn and did not like him at all.†   (source)
  • I am deeply indebted to the works of several other scholars and journalists who have written about nu shu: William Chiang, Henry Chu, Hu Xiaoshen, Lin-lee Lee, Fei-wen Liu, Liu Shouhua, Anne McLaren, Orie Endo, Norman Smith, Wei Liming, and Liming Zhao.†   (source)
  • To all of them, I am grateful and indebted.†   (source)
  • I am indebted to you.†   (source)
  • We indebted ourselves to her when she saved our brother, a debt I will gladly pay.†   (source)
  • But when I reflect back on my surgical training, I'm indebted to a small, dark man, a self-effacing surgeon whom the world might never celebrate.†   (source)
  • They radiate a sense of being indebted and a state of being thankful.†   (source)
  • As it is entirely to your wisdom and conduct, the United States are indebted for the late success of your arms.†   (source)
  • For the precision of her blue pencil, I am indebted to Lisa R. Lester.†   (source)
  • You know how much I think of you, how indebted both Trudy and I are--were--to all of you.†   (source)
  • I'm indebted to Curt for requesting me.†   (source)
  • "I suppose I am indebted to him, then," she said.†   (source)
  • The thought came unbidden, seizing him with iron teeth, but this was not a woman he cared to be indebted to, not even for his little sister.†   (source)
  • I am also indebted to the wide range of materials available from Human Rights Watch, Save the Children, CARE, Defence for Children International, the Children's Institute, médecins sans frontiers, Amnesty International, War Child, and other NGOs.†   (source)
  • "We are most indebted to Rowan for paying us such a timely visit," said Dr. Rasmussen, raising a glass of cabernet "Indeed, I must admit we have become a bit exasperated by the problem."†   (source)
  • They have been indebted to you for many years.†   (source)
  • I was a natural to take care of Pearce, not because of my radiant humanity (although that is what I wanted to believe) but because he would be indebted to me and I could rule him and own him and even loathe him because I had made him a captive of my goodness.†   (source)
  • For that I felt indebted to him for life.†   (source)
  • Posterity will be indebted to the American spirit for its many innovations that improve private rights and public happiness.†   (source)
  • "We are both indebted to the dwarf," Drizzt explained.†   (source)
  • But I must say, I am increasingly indebted to you for your hospitality.†   (source)
  • Heavily indebted in tone to the opening passages of All the King's Men, using similar rhythms and even the same second-person singular to achieve the effect of the author grabbing the reader by the lapels, the passage was, I knew, to say the least, derivative, yet I also knew that there was much in it that was powerful and fresh.†   (source)
  • It was to his old tormentor that he was now indebted for his promotion.†   (source)
  • I did not want to be indebted to Kunthi, or to her son.†   (source)
  • He was indebted to the Land Bank, and heavily mortgaged, for he had had no capital at all, when he started.†   (source)
  • "You don't want to feel indebted to him."†   (source)
  • "We are indebted to you, Dr. Kynes," Leto said.†   (source)
  • Yet most of us are no good at being helpless, humble, or indebted.†   (source)
  • It was a weird feeling, knowing you were indebted, if not connected.†   (source)
  • "We are indebted to her forever," he said, "for saving the life of my brother.†   (source)
  • Better dead than indebted to this traitor.†   (source)
  • He has done a great deal for me in my life and I am deeply indebted to him.†   (source)
  • Now I shall be wholly indebted to my daughter-in-law, I thought.†   (source)
  • I'm not giving the money to you because I want you to feel wistful, or indebted to me, or to feel that it's some kind of bloody memorial.†   (source)
  • In any case, I replied with a smile that far from being 'putout', I felt extremely indebted for the hospitality I was receiving.†   (source)
  • I now find myself much indebted to the batman, for quite aside from assisting with the Ford, he has allowed me to discover a most charming spot which it is most improbable I would ever have found otherwise.†   (source)
  • To Richard Stockton, one of the new delegates from New Jersey, Adams was "the Atlas" of the hour, "the man to whom the country is most indebted for the great measure of independency…… He it was who sustained the debate, and by the force of his reasoning demonstrated not only the justice, but the expediency of the measure."†   (source)
  • Left to her own devices, this was the story I was sure she preferred'that she'd just sprouted, all on her own, neither connected nor indebted to anyone else at all.†   (source)
  • I was indebted to that boy.†   (source)
  • The spokesman was glad of the final outcome of that whole situation, and, in truth, realized that he and all of Ten-Towns were indebted to the halfling for making them heed his warning.†   (source)
  • Shays's Rebellion, as it would come to be known, after one of its leaders, Daniel Shays, a former captain in the Continental Army, was in protest of rising taxes and court action against indebted farmers who, in many cases, were losing their land in the midst of hard times.†   (source)
  • The Seekers stood as a mighty shield, and the souls of this world were thrice-over indebted to them: for the safety they had carved out of the mayhem, for the risk of the final death that they faced willingly every day, and for the new bodies they continued to provide.†   (source)
  • I am indebted to him as well.†   (source)
  • That made him indebted to Jody Simmons no?†   (source)
  • He was indebted to Jody Simmons and now he had found a job.†   (source)
  • I dare say I may speak without boasting, when I say that many in this room are indebted to me for liberty, if not for life.†   (source)
  • His wooden bird he had bought from an old man who was much indebted to him, and who was about to die without descendants.†   (source)
  • Mr Cusins: I am much indebted to you for explaining so precisely.†   (source)
  • To the other friend I am also deeply indebted.†   (source)
  • Tom could hardly have hoped for any more, and felt that he would be always indebted to the Hudnalls.†   (source)
  • I am much indebted to you, sir, for a Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity.†   (source)
  • We in Boston are constantly indebted to you for doing our work.†   (source)
  • I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for having cleared the matter up.†   (source)
  • To this good grandmother I was indebted for many comforts.†   (source)
  • I have already said, that for my prospering there, I am sensible I may be indebted to you, sir.†   (source)
  • The greatest genius is the most indebted man.†   (source)
  • Mr. Grant," lifting his cap, "I feel indebted to your attention.†   (source)
  • I am indebted to him for my regeneration….'†   (source)
  • My dear Athos, I shall no longer count the number of times I am indebted to you for my life.†   (source)
  • I am indebted to you, and would begin payment.†   (source)
  • To what, then, are we indebted for our safety?†   (source)
  • 'Really, Ernest,' I said, 'we are indebted to you.†   (source)
  • The people to whom she was indebted made "scenes" and gave her no peace.†   (source)
  • I am quite indebted to you for the trouble you have taken already.†   (source)
  • We are indebted to that for his being lodged in this neighborhood.†   (source)
  • I am not indebted for my present happiness to your eager desire of expressing your gratitude.†   (source)
  • I was indebted to her for all my comforts, spiritual or temporal.†   (source)
  • That sum of money, for which I shall be indebted to your generosity….†   (source)
  • Andrea was indebted for this visit to the following circumstances.†   (source)
  • Too much indebted to the event for his acquittal.†   (source)
  • I presume you know, gentlemen, to whom my friend is indebted for this piece of patronage?†   (source)
  • Marmaduke; "and much more deeply am I indebted to thee than for this piece of venison.†   (source)
  • It is to you that I am indebted for it, Monsieur Pontmercy.†   (source)
  • "We are greatly indebted to you, son of Hur," he said, in his grave manner.†   (source)
  • Let us begin life anew by acknowledgment of him to whom we are all so indebted.†   (source)
  • We are indebted to that for seeing a woman like Dorothea degrading herself by marrying him.†   (source)
  • I am indebted to you for my life, peasant.†   (source)
  • It seemed to him that he had been speaking not to the woman he loved but to another, a woman he was indebted to for pleasures already wearied of: it was hateful to find himself the prisoner of this hackneyed vocabulary.†   (source)
  • As she did so, it struck her with a flash of irony that she was indebted to Gus Trenor for the means of buying them.†   (source)
  • "Wal, I reckon I'll be some indebted to you, Miss Majesty, an' all your guests," replied Stillwell, warmly.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, if I am not mistaken, I believe you are yourself indebted to Mr. Ptitsin's hospitality.†   (source)
  • I am immensely indebted to you.†   (source)
  • I am very much indebted to you, Dr. Mortimer, for introducing me to a problem which presents several interesting alternatives.†   (source)
  • * For this interesting view of Mr. Washington's education, I am indebted to Robert C. Ogden, Esq., Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Hampton Institute and the intimate friend of General Armstrong during the whole period of his educational work.†   (source)
  • Wherever one of our brickmakers has gone in the South, we find that he has something to contribute to the well-being of the community into which he has gone; something that has made the community feel that, in a degree, it is indebted to him, and perhaps, to a certain extent, dependent upon him.†   (source)
  • Becquerel, Ebelman, Brewster, Dumas, Milne-Edwards, Saint-Claire-Deville frequently consulted him upon the most difficult problems in chemistry, a science which was indebted to him for considerable discoveries, for in 1853 there had appeared at Leipzig an imposing folio by Otto Liedenbrock, entitled, "A Treatise upon Transcendental Chemistry," with plates; a work, however, which failed to cover its expenses.†   (source)
  • "Well, Bob, I'm sure he'll be indebted to you, whatever he becomes; he said so himself only the other night, when he was talking of you."†   (source)
  • It was partly to this vague fear that Marner was indebted for protecting him from the persecution that his singularities might have drawn upon him, but still more to the fact that, the old linen-weaver in the neighbouring parish of Tarley being dead, his handicraft made him a highly welcome settler to the richer housewives of the district, and even to the more provident cottagers, who had their little stock of yarn at the year's end.†   (source)
  • 'May I be permitted to ask, sir,' said Mrs. Sparsit, 'to what I am indebted for the favour of — ' 'Assuredly,' said the stranger.†   (source)
  • From something that he told me in our journey hither, I have reason to think Bingley very much indebted to him.†   (source)
  • And as for my exact knowledge of the bones of the leviathan in their gigantic, full grown development, for that rare knowledge I am indebted to my late royal friend Tranquo, king of Tranque, one of the Arsacides.†   (source)
  • He added with the air of a profound thinker, "One is indebted sometimes to fortune, sometimes to ruse, for the happy issue of great enterprises."†   (source)
  • Fanny's last feeling in the visit was disappointment: for the shawl which Edmund was quietly taking from the servant to bring and put round her shoulders was seized by Mr. Crawford's quicker hand, and she was obliged to be indebted to his more prominent attention.†   (source)
  • She had reminded him of what was quite true; he had been indebted to her father for the first steps in his career.†   (source)
  • They were indebted, the next day, to Charles Hayter, for all the minute knowledge of Louisa, which it was so essential to obtain every twenty-four hours.†   (source)
  • The one, to whose knowledge in the culinary art the other was indebted for his banquet, seemed the least disposed of the two to profit by his own skill.†   (source)
  • Only—mind, I am not disappointed, Newman, and feel just as much indebted to you—only IT WAS THE WRONG LADY.'†   (source)
  • He said that "These were men to whose indefatigable zeal modern philosophers were indebted for most of the foundations of their knowledge.†   (source)
  • Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities--that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration.†   (source)
  • "I am so much indebted to you, and so are the children and my stepmother," said Sonia hurriedly, "and if I've said so little…. please don't consider…."†   (source)
  • The savage was one of those who did not understand a word of English, and he was indebted to the gestures of Deerslayer, and to the expression of an eye that did not often deceive, for an imperfect comprehension of his meaning.†   (source)
  • "My friends," I replied, very moved, "we're bound to each other forever, and I'm deeply indebted to you—"†   (source)
  • The same acclamations were bestowed upon Prince John, although he was indebted for them rather to the splendour of his appearance and train, than to the popularity of his character.†   (source)
  • To Mr. John Knightley was she indebted for her first idea on the subject, for the first start of its possibility.†   (source)
  • "Where am I?" exclaimed she; "and to whom am I indebted for so happy a termination to my late dreadful alarm?"†   (source)
  • There passed through Morris Townsend's mind a rapid wonder as to what he might, even under a remote contingency, be indebted to from the action of this principle in Dr. Sloper's breast, and the inquiry exhausted itself in his sense of the ludicrous.†   (source)
  • And very much indebted for the omen.†   (source)
  • I am indebted to the rain, then.†   (source)
  • And to Yefim Petrovitch, a man of a generosity and humanity rarely to be met with, the young people were more indebted for their education and bringing up than to any one.†   (source)
  • For these particulars or generalities concerning Little Dorrit, Mr Arthur was indebted in the course of the day to his own eyes and to Mrs Affery's tongue.†   (source)
  • You and I are indebted to the hard hands of such men—hands that have long ago mingled with the soil they tilled so faithfully, thriftily making the best they could of the earth's fruits, and receiving the smallest share as their own wages.†   (source)
  • The Indian was indebted to no one but himself; his virtues, his vices, and his prejudices were his own work; he had grown up in the wild independence of his nature.†   (source)
  • Now that Ralph was in trouble she addressed him in a tone of larger allowance and told him that she was much indebted to him for having made her acquainted with Mr. Bantling.†   (source)
  • It may hate him who dares to scrutinise and expose — to rase the gilding, and show base metal under it — to penetrate the sepulchre, and reveal charnel relics: but hate as it will, it is indebted to him.†   (source)
  • Hepzibah, at all events, was indebted to its subtile operation both in body and spirit; so much the more, as it inspired her with energy to get some breakfast, at which, still the better to keep up her courage, she allowed herself an extra spoonful in her infusion of black tea.†   (source)
  • To five little stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged in a neat row beside their grave, and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine,—who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early in that universal struggle,—I am indebted for a belief I religiously entertained that they had all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence.†   (source)
  • She had taken a carriage by the month, so as not to be indebted to her aunt for the means of pursuing a course of which Mrs. Touchett disapproved, and she drove in the morning to the Cascine.†   (source)
  • She gave my mother such a turn, that I have always been convinced I am indebted to Miss Betsey for having been born on a Friday.†   (source)
  • And I have no doubt that Pitt Crawley's contrition, or kindness if you will, towards his younger brother, by whom he had so much profited, was only a very small dividend upon the capital sum in which he was indebted to Rawdon.†   (source)
  • The parties in the Ark, and in the canoe, were indebted to the ferocity of Hurry's attack for their momentary security.†   (source)
  • Then at last she said: "But it hardly strikes me as the sort of feeling to which a man would wish to be indebted for a wife."†   (source)
  • The animal was probably indebted to the blood of Araby for its excellence, through a long pedigree, that embraced the steed of Mexico, the Spanish barb, and the Moorish charger.†   (source)
  • Nicholas felt himself irredeemably indebted to Sonya for all she was doing for his mother and greatly admired her patience and devotion, but tried to keep aloof from her.†   (source)
  • The day will close almost before you are aware it has begun; and you are indebted to no one for helping you to get rid of one vacant moment: you have had to seek no one's company, conversation, sympathy, forbearance; you have lived, in short, as an independent being ought to do.†   (source)
  • For instance, at his second visit, after he had received Dounia's consent, in the course of conversation, he declared that before making Dounia's acquaintance, he had made up his mind to marry a girl of good reputation, without dowry and, above all, one who had experienced poverty, because, as he explained, a man ought not to be indebted to his wife, but that it is better for a wife to look upon her husband as her benefactor.†   (source)
  • "As I say?" echoed the Jew; "O! believe it, I say but the truth; I am a plundered, indebted, distressed man.†   (source)
  • Admiral Crawford was a man of vicious conduct, who chose, instead of retaining his niece, to bring his mistress under his own roof; and to this Mrs. Grant was indebted for her sister's proposal of coming to her, a measure quite as welcome on one side as it could be expedient on the other; for Mrs. Grant, having by this time run through the usual resources of ladies residing in the country without a family of children—having more than filled her favourite sitting-room with pretty…†   (source)
  • Properly speaking, therefore, it is not the Europeans who drive away the native inhabitants of America; it is famine which compels them to recede; a happy distinction which had escaped the casuists of former times, and for which we are indebted to modern discovery!†   (source)
  • To him we owe the Brasidas,[327] the Dion,[328] the Epaminondas,[329] the Scipio[330] of old, and I must think we are more deeply indebted to him than to all the ancient writers.†   (source)
  • He seemed to consider himself hardly less indebted to me, than to Mr. Micawber; which I consider (as I told him) quite a compliment.'†   (source)
  • "I'm very grateful to Mr. Guest and you, sir; of course I feel the most indebted to you, who first took me into the business, and have taken a good deal of pains with me since."†   (source)
  • Without hoping that he or anybody else had been pretty well, Miss Wade asked him to what she was indebted for the honour of seeing him again?†   (source)
  • Had he done his duty in that respect, Lydia need not have been indebted to her uncle for whatever of honour or credit could now be purchased for her.†   (source)
  • She described how in former days she had been indebted to Mr. Crawley for religious instruction, touched upon the Washerwoman of Finchley Common, which she had read with the greatest profit, and asked about Lady Emily, its gifted author, now Lady Emily Hornblower, at Cape Town, where her husband had strong hopes of becoming Bishop of Caffraria.†   (source)
  • They were divided into two classes; those who were mainly indebted for their influence to physical causes, and to deeds in arms, and those who had become distinguished rather for their wisdom than for their services in the field.†   (source)
  • The eyes of the father soon met the wondering looks of his daughter, and he said, with a smile: "You perceive, my child, how much we are indebted to Remarkable for her skill in housewifery.†   (source)
  • None of us clearly know to whom or to what we are indebted in this wise, until some marked stop in the whirling wheel of life brings the right perception with it.†   (source)
  • A girl so much indebted to her friends—whose mother as well as herself had received so much kindness from the Deanes—to lay the design of winning a young man's affections away from her own cousin, who had behaved like a sister to her!†   (source)
  • "I were right sorry for that," said the Knight of the Fetterlock, "for I stand indebted to him for the joyous hospitality of a merry night in his cell.†   (source)
  • My brother Willie and I often received portions of the crackers, cakes, and preserves, she made to sell; and after we ceased to be children we were indebted to her for many more important services.†   (source)
  • I was once indebted to him for assistance in money for more than three thousand, and I took it, although I could not at that time foresee that I should ever be in a position to repay my debt.†   (source)
  • …has proved that ingenuity cannot always supply the place of a knowledge of facts, very justly reproaches the Americans for the sort of confusion which exists in the accounts of the expenditure in the townships; and after giving the model of a departmental budget in France, he adds:—"We are indebted to centralization, that admirable invention of a great man, for the uniform order and method which prevail alike in all the municipal budgets, from the largest town to the humblest commune."†   (source)
  • 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?†   (source)
  • Little Mr. Chillip the Doctor, to whose good offices I was indebted in the very first chapter of this history, sat reading a newspaper in the shadow of an opposite corner.†   (source)
  • To this alone was he indebted for the first great advantage, that of getting through the line of sentinels unharmed.†   (source)
  • This was Colonel Campbell, who had very highly regarded Fairfax, as an excellent officer and most deserving young man; and farther, had been indebted to him for such attentions, during a severe camp-fever, as he believed had saved his life.†   (source)
  • It is natural, under these circumstances, that he, in his turn, should remember the friend to whom he is indebted for so promising an acquaintance.†   (source)
  • 'I propose,' said Mr. Micawber, 'Bills — a convenience to the mercantile world, for which, I believe, we are originally indebted to the Jews, who appear to me to have had a devilish deal too much to do with them ever since — because they are negotiable.†   (source)
  • They stood indolent, lounging, and inert, as usual when no immediate demand was made on their dormant energies, clustered in front of some four or five habitations of skin, for which they were indebted to the hospitality of their Teton allies.†   (source)
  • In the first place, he owed to him the revolution which had taken place within him; to him he was indebted for having known and loved his father.†   (source)
  • Elnathan was indebted for this exemption from labor in some measure to his extraordinary growth, which, leaving him pale, inanimate, and listless, induced his tender mother to pronounce him "a sickly boy, and one that was not equal to work, but who might earn a living comfortably enough by taking to pleading law, or turning minister, or doctoring, or some such like easy calling.'†   (source)
  • There is no reason why I should not tell you—since the fact is so—that the person to whom I am indebted is Bulstrode.†   (source)
  • Of opinion, however, that he was certainly dead, I have lived quite five years in calm and innocent enjoyment of the fortune for which I am in a degree indebted to him.†   (source)
  • 'I might refer that question to Mr Dorrit,' said Mrs Merdle, turning the bosom towards that gentleman; 'Edmund having been so much indebted to him for rendering his stay agreeable.'†   (source)
  • It was also in conformity with practice, perhaps we might add in conformity with nature, that one of the chiefs was indebted to his mind for his influence, whereas the other owed his distinction altogether to qualities that were physical.†   (source)
  • "Hound of a Jew!" exclaimed the Prior, "no one knows better than thy own cursed self, that our holy house of God is indebted for the finishing of our chancel—"†   (source)
  • , 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.†   (source)
  • The idea of her being indebted to Mrs. Elton for what was called an _introduction_—of her going into public under the auspices of a friend of Mrs. Elton's—probably some vulgar, dashing widow, who, with the help of a boarder, just made a shift to live!†   (source)
  • He begged to know further particulars of what he was indebted to his brother, but was too angry with Lydia to send any message to her.†   (source)
  • I presume that you founded that belief upon your general knowledge of my being an orphan girl, indebted for everything to the benevolence of Mr. Jarndyce.†   (source)
  • He trusted that he should make the best return, if return were possible, by showing the effectiveness of the education for which he was indebted, and by ceasing in future to need any diversion towards himself of funds on which others might have a better claim.†   (source)
  • The latter more than once received from his lips curses as sententious and as complicated as that celebrated anathema of the church, for a knowledge of which most unlettered Protestants are indebted to the pious researches of the worthy Tristram Shandy.†   (source)
  • The girls were indebted to their mother for this proficiency, having acquired from her, in childhood, an advantage that no subsequent study or labor can give without a drawback, if neglected beyond the earlier periods of life.†   (source)
  • And Marius, ignorant of the real scene in the battle field of Waterloo, was not aware of the peculiar detail, that his father, so far as Thenardier was concerned was in the strange position of being indebted to the latter for his life, without being indebted to him for any gratitude.†   (source)
  • Prince John, in league with Philip of France, Coeur-de-Lion's mortal enemy, was using every species of influence with the Duke of Austria, to prolong the captivity of his brother Richard, to whom he stood indebted for so many favours.†   (source)
  • 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?†   (source)
  • To his wife he was very little otherwise indebted, than as her ignorance and folly had contributed to his amusement.†   (source)
  • I sent for you, in order that I might say—hum—impressively say, in the presence of Mrs General, to whom we are all so much indebted for obligingly being present among us, on—ha—on this or any other occasion,' Mrs General shut her eyes, 'that I—ha hum—am not pleased with you.†   (source)
  • We parted with great heartiness on both sides; and when I had seen Traddles to his own door, and was going home alone, I thought, among the other odd and contradictory things I mused upon, that, slippery as Mr. Micawber was, I was probably indebted to some compassionate recollection he retained of me as his boy-lodger, for never having been asked by him for money.†   (source)
  • …of taxations already mentioned, called the Jews' Exchequer, erected for the very purpose of despoiling and distressing them, the Jews increased, multiplied, and accumulated huge sums, which they transferred from one hand to another by means of bills of exchange—an invention for which commerce is said to be indebted to them, and which enabled them to transfer their wealth from land to land, that when threatened with oppression in one country, their treasure might be secured in another.†   (source)
  • From the drawing-room they could distinguish nothing in the lane, and were indebted to Mr. Collins for the knowledge of what carriages went along, and how often especially Miss de Bourgh drove by in her phaeton, which he never failed coming to inform them of, though it happened almost every day.†   (source)
  • Besides the service which he had rendered to the chief town by resuscitating the black jet industry, there was not one out of the hundred and forty communes of the arrondissement of M. sur M. which was not indebted to him for some benefit.†   (source)
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