1 There is a pile of these arrears very soon, and it swells like a rolling snowball.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE 2 But he could not let off peasants who did not pay their rent, nor let them fall into arrears.
3 Some months she was in arrears.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—THE LARK 4 It was impossible for him to leave all these arrears of suffering behind him, and he wished, before entering joyously into the future, to obtain a quittance from the past.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND 5 One of them in my room, Charles Gorot, had some arrears of work to make up, so I left him there and went out to dine.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty 6 My mother glances submissively at them, shuts the book, and lays it by as an arrear to be worked out when my other tasks are done.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE