He had an old score to pay off against Maudie, they all knew that.

The tourist would presumably pay off the unwelcome guide, but the children cannot pay off the teacher: they can and do rebel, but docility and adaptability seem to play a large part in self-preservation.

The sale of Newstead to Colonel Wildman in 1818, for 90,000 l., went mostly to pay off mortgages and debts.

The names of all the great and mediocre people who visited the famous rendezvous would fill a respectable Court guide, and the money transactions that have taken place would pay off the National Debt.

"When did you ask him?" "About two months agosoon as ever I found out I wouldn't be able to pay off the mortgage.

The latter, anxious though he was to own the Dale place himself, had agreed to pay off the mortgage bought by Lanpher and Tweezy and take in return a 6 per cent.

V. retaliate, retort, turn upon; pay, pay off, pay back; pay in one's own coin, pay in the same coin; cap; reciprocate &c 148; turn the tables upon, return the compliment; give a quid pro quo &c n., give as much as one takes, give as good as one gets; give and take, exchange fisticuffs; be quits, be even with; pay off old scores. serve one right, be hoist on one's own petard, throw a stone in one's own garden, catch a Tartar.

As to raising seven hundred dollars to pay off the mortgage, or induce any capitalist to furnish it, she feared it would be quite impossible.

I order and direct my executors, as soon after my death as possible, to pay off and discharge all debts and liabilities that may exist against me at the time of my decease.

He gave her the money to pay off the mortgage, hid in the brush and held up the landlord on the way back.

I think not; if I were allowed three years to pay off my three quarters' rent, I should still be embarrassed.

"The interest is higher than I thought, but the money would pay off urgent bills and cover the cost of the farmstead repairs.

The Grounds of our Difference was this; that when we had enquired into each others Circumstances, we found that at our first setting out into the World, we should owe five hundred Pounds more than her Fortune would pay off.

'To-morrow night,' he said, 'we will carry off Amabel, in spite of the apprentice or her father; and, as I am equally indebted with yourself to the latter, we will pay off old scores with him.'

The present and succeeding generation, at least, will have to pay off some heavy obligations in the next sixty or seventy years, and then the city should he immensely the richer for its enterprising policy.

But even during these twenty-three years, the price of silver was so low that home production was given up because it did not pay off.

When father wanted to pay off the balance due, $40.00, Mrs. Davidson refused to accept it, thus mother and I were to remain in slavery.

A loan was raised in the city to pay off a portion of the arrears of pay due to the army.

"I suppose she's putting by out of the profits of that little millinery store of hers to pay off the family debts.

Pan Julius Keo wants to pay off the mortgage, and asked me to meet him at a fixed time; and I waited for him the whole day.

"Yes, Aralia, Uncle is coming up from Hull with Father and Cousin Frank, and we shall stop here three whole days before we go back to clear ship and pay off" "And," added Tom, "Uncle has something so strange and nice to tell you!"

He had sneaked after the lady, and when he saw the gendarmes coming, he had thought it a good chance to pay off old scores.

"I'm shipping a new crew and I pay off the old one to-night.

If you will marry her I will pay off all your mortgages and settle on her quite a princely dower.

He came to dinner that night, and fell madly in love with you, and at once asked to marry you himself, while he insisted upon your fortune being tied up entirely upon you, and any children that you might have, only allowing me to pay off the mortgages on Wrayth for himself.