"Here's Gray got the belle of the ball mortgaged for all her dances, and won't even give me an introduction.

Ptolemy Auletes, when dying, had taken great care not to bequeath his mortgaged kingdom to his Roman creditors.

Chorus: Then give your horses rein, &c. THE FREEHOLD ON THE PLAIN (Air: “The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane.”) I’m a broken-down old squatter, my cash it is all gone, Of troubles and bad seasons I complain; My cattle are all mortgaged, of horses I have none, And I’ve lost that little freehold on the plain.

The wrecks of play behold, Estates dismembered, mortgaged, sold!

Before emancipation, Jamaica was insolvent, her plantations were mortgaged beyond their value, and its planting was threatened in other ways far more than now.

The comparative poverty of these slave States reminds me of the destitution of our colonies and those of England before emancipation: mortgaged estates, plantations burdened with expenses, the complete destruction of creditsuch was their position.

Business is suspended, money for cultivation is lacking, credit is everywhere refused, the ensuing harvest is mortgaged, the loans which it is sought to issue find no takers outside the extreme South.

He was shunned by those who adhered to the conventionalities of life, and was pursued by bailiffs and creditors,since his ancestral estates, small for his rank, were encumbered and mortgaged, and Newstead Abbey itself was in a state of dilapidation.

These carriages will roll away, Lord knows where; all his houses are mortgaged, and all the creditors will get out of it'll be three pairs of old boots.

But in addition to all that, as Samsón Sílych has mortgaged his house and shops to me, I can frighten him with the mortgage.

Then he died; his affairs were in great confusion; he had mortgaged his land for his writ.

Reuben's farm was already heavily mortgaged.

The estate was heavily mortgaged, Osborn had no rich friends, and when the blow fell would look to Thorn for the aid nobody else could give.

Although the farms are mortgaged, I might be able to find a buyerat a price.

"Well, you see, the land between Forsyth's and the dale-head is heavily mortgaged, and, taking the two farms with the others, would make a compact block that could be economically worked.

What are you going to do?" "I must advertise the mortgaged farms for public sale, and when arrears of interest, various charges, and smaller loans are deducted, there will probably be nothing left.

At one time the editor had mortgaged his house to pay the running expenses; but friends came to his aid, his debts were paid, and the circulation of the paper doubled.

Clawbonny is an older place than Willow Cove, even; and both are too venerable and venerated to be mortgaged.

Clawbonny was mortgaged already, and I confess to several new and violent twinges, as I recalled the fact, while Marble was telling his story.

The free holders who had "fallen into decay," and had in consequence mortgaged their inheritances to their more prosperous neighbors, and become in some sort their servants, were released by the jubilee, and again resumed their inheritances.

"My pay-envelope is mortgaged to you book-agents for ten years to come.

Was it not enough that their house and land were mortgaged, their horse and carriage gone?

" The low, weathered house and sixty acres were mortgaged.

" "It's almost the only bit of real property your husband hasn't sold, mortgaged, or pledged.

Perhaps you don't know that he stole my husband's hard earnings, mortgaged these very goods you want to buy, and that he is to-day a convicted thief, a forger, and a runaway coward.