1 He looked like a man who had never cringed and never had had a creditor.
2 His creditor was Wick Cutter, the merciless Black Hawk money-lender, a man of evil name throughout the county, of whom I shall have more to say later.
3 It is a great mistake to suppose that a woman with no heart will be an easy creditor in the exchange of affection.
4 My worldly affairs began to wear a gloomy appearance, and I was pressed for money by more than one creditor.
5 Down to that moment, I had vainly supposed that my creditor had withdrawn, or suspended proceedings until I should be quite recovered.
6 He even said to himself, that a creditor is worse than a master; for the master possesses only your person, a creditor possesses your dignity and can administer to it a box on the ear.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR 7 He was about to deliver the Colonel's shade from this unworthy creditor at last, and it seemed to him that he was on the point of rescuing his father's memory from the debtors' prison.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN... 8 It was his belief that if he were given time in which to realize them, all would be well and every creditor paid in full.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER 9 If Mr. Micawber's creditors will not give him time,' said Mrs. Micawber, 'they must take the consequences; and the sooner they bring it to an issue the better.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIK... 10 The only visitors I ever saw, or heard of, were creditors.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIK... 11 She would be able to arrange her life as she pleased, to soar into that empyrean of security where creditors cannot penetrate.
12 The transaction had justified itself by its results: she saw now how absurd it would have been to let any primitive scruple deprive her of this easy means of appeasing her creditors.
13 He determines to swindle his creditors, and for this purpose he pays large checks to a certain Mr. Cornelius, who is, I imagine, himself under another name.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER 14 "And you'll probably find that your creditors will impound the banking account of Mr. Cornelius," said Holmes.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER 15 The creditors who had so long been silent, restrained by a vague but powerful influence exerted on them while he lived by the count's careless good nature, all proceeded to enforce their claims at once.