Having the vastest empire, she was also financially the greatest creditor country: creditor of America and Asia, of the new African states and of Australia.

A petition from an incarcerated poet assimilates the mountain of the Jacobins to that of Parnassusa state-creditor importunes for a small payment from the Gods of Olympusand congratulations on the abolition of Christianity are offered to the legislators of Mount Sinai!

Great practical advantage was experienced from it in the War of 1812, when the United States was a creditor nation.

Nevertheless Hamilton refused to admit that "such a provision would exceed the abilities of the country," but he was "clearly of the opinion that to make it would require the extension of taxation to a degree and to objects which the true interest of the public creditor forbids."

It is no distress to him to accept obligations from me; all our lives we have been in the habit of borrowing from and lending to each other; and we could not tell, if we would, how our debtor and creditor account stands.

Of course not; for, if you had, I don't think you would have given me creditor discreditfor entire originality in that speech of mine.

DIMANCHE, M. (Mr. Sunday), a character in Molière's "Don Juan," the type of an honest merchant, whom, on presenting his bill, his creditor appeases by his politeness. DIME, a U.S. silver coin, worth the tenth part of a dollar, or about fivepence.

The rest of the loss falls chiefly upon the creditor class, the people with fixed incomes and fixed salaries, the landlords, who have let at long leases, the people with pensions, endowed institutions, the Church, insurance companies, and the like.