Denslow's principal creditors were among the guests to-night; they went away soon, just after the affair with the picture; to-morrow will be our dark day.

Most of the remainder had been raised by bond issues practically all of which were subscribed by our own people, so that the debt is owing not to foreign creditors, but to ourselves.

The man in brown, who so unseasonably interrupted his pleasantry, is an officer of justice, and has probably taken him before a magistrate, to answer some one of his numerous creditors.

Some of them appear to have been constructed for the accommodation, not of honest creditors, but of dishonest debtors.

He took a liking to me, and proposed that I should purchase Eulalia, and thus enable him to cancel a debt due to a troublesome creditor whom he suspected of having an eye upon his daughter.

" "You have been grossly extravagant, Mrs. Stevens," one heartless creditor returned.

He is the terror of every young lover, and of all the urgent creditors on the islands.

Interest was paid punctually three times, and another payment was all but due when the unfortunate creditor died in Chicago.

The last day of the old year is an anxious time to all debtors and creditors, for it is the great pay-day, and those who cannot pay are abused and insulted, and often have the furniture of their house all smashed to pieces by their desperate creditors.

What if it should be one of those dreadful creditors come here to peep and pry?

He was involved in a mysterious affair of poisoning, in which the victim was a dunning creditor.

The property which he had married with his wife, and which she had derived from Albert's father, had all been made over to her again to save it from Plausaby's rather eager creditors.

He must pay whatever the cold-eyed creditor demanded.

This reminds us of Sheridan's treatment of a female creditor.

this way she followed me; therefore I'll take the other path; and because I'll be sure to have an eye on him, I will take hands with some foolish creditor, and make every step backward.

and 'No Marshal!'on the standards to the left, are 'Confusion to Credit, and no fraudulent Creditors.'

Others rummaged the small stock of showy books which consituted the library, and were surprised to find that the most imposing volumes were bound in wood, with gilt backs, and contained nothing but air, which a funny creditor characterized as very light reading matter.

Mr. Whedell was about to thank his preserver most profusely, and Mrs. Chiffield to burst into a new torrent, when Matthew, to avoid these demonstrations, rose, opened the door, and let in the pack of hungry creditors.

Nor is it to be overlooked that there exists a chain of necessary dependence among these institutions which obliges them to a great extent to follow the course of others, notwithstanding its injustice to their own immediate creditors or injury to the particular community in which they are placed.

The Laureate was stripped of the wreath; his only income confiscated; and after struggling feebly with fate in the form of implacable creditors, he took refuge in the Old Mint, the resort of thieves and debtors, where in 1715 he died,it is said, of starvation.

He is an inferior creditor of some ten shillings downwards, contracted for horse-hire, or perchance for drink, too weak to be put in suit, and he arrests your modesty.

"Joke or no joke," said he, "I must look to you for some money to put off the infernal creditors, who have begun to flock into the house.

Plausaby owned it once rightfully and legally, and there are innocent creditors who trusted him on the strength of his possession of it.

For some years O'Grady had successfully kept out of his door every process-server sent by his innumerable creditors; but now, having got a cold, he had dispatched his man to the chemist for a blister, and owing to Handy Andy, he obtained Squire Egan's writ against him.

The bally is an insatiable creditor, but man worse.