All 9 Uses
mortgage
in
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
(Edited)
- But there was a mortgage on the two hundred acres bought in 1918 and there were taxes on the full four hundred, and for the past three years there had not been enough money from the cotton to pay both and live on too.
p. 6.8mortgage = a loan agreement that promises to turn property over to the lender if not paid as agreed
- For it he would work the long, hot summer pounding steel; Mama would teach and run the farm; Big Ma, in her sixties, would work like a woman of twenty in the fields and keep the house; and the boys and I would wear threadbare clothing washed to dishwater color; but always, the taxes and the mortgage would be paid.
p. 8.1
- Them and Mary works hard to pay the taxes and mortgage on this here place and I been wantin' to make sure while I'm still breathin' that they gets title to this place under the law without no trouble.
p. 160.1
- Course now with times like they are, that mortgage could come due anytime …. and if it comes due and y'all ain't got the money to pay it, y'all could lose this place.
p. 167.5
- Your mama's got no job come fall and there's the mortgage and next year's taxes to think of.
p. 202.1 *mortgage = property loan that must be paid to keep the property
- With Mr. Morrison here we was able to plant more, but that cotton is for living on; the railroad money is for the taxes and the mortgage.
p. 202.3mortgage = a loan agreement that promises to turn property over to the lender if not paid as agreed
- With Hammer's half of the mortgage money, we've got enough to meet the June payment…
p. 219.1
- When the chores were almost finished, Mr. Morrison arrived from Strawberry, where he had gone to make the August mortgage payment.
p. 231.4
- But son, that mortgage give us four more years.
p. 233.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(mortgage) a real estate loan; or to offer real estate as collateral for a loan
(collateral is something that has to be given to the lender if the loan isn't paid as agreed) - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)