"Creditor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from the crowd for a few minutes, but there was no harm done to any one. Mrs. Hurley had her goods, and the creditor had his money, and I was out $80, while Asbury's reliability as an auctioneer was called into some question until his position in the matter was ...
— The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself • Cole Younger
... fleeting sorrows of mortal life, yet as my conscience was lulled to rest by the self-delusion that I suffered more than I deserved, and had therefore a claim on divine justice, and as I was willing to receive the supposed balance of such debtor and creditor account in the world to come, I was perfectly content to be summoned to my reward. Blessed be God that I was not taken away in that ...
— Personal Recollections • Charlotte Elizabeth
... terrace, house by house, The lands of Jones he took, And heavier still the balance was Writ in that fatal book. At last, no property nor cash Had he, so he did fail, And the avenging plumber locked Him up in Ludlow Jail. His heartless creditor he besought For mercy in his need. "Nay, nay, no mercy, lie and rot," Quoth he, "in jail, like Tweed. For I have sworn avenged to be On thee, thy kin and kith; Rememberest thou Belinda Jane? I ...
— Humour of the North • Lawrence J. Burpee
... get a peep at the tally of Dame Fortune, where like a vigilant landlady she chalks up the debtor and creditor accounts of thoughtless mortals, we should find that every good is checked off by an evil; and that however we may apparently revel scot-free for a season, the time will come when we must ruefully pay off the reckoning. Fortune, in fact, is a pestilent shrew, and, withal, an inexorable ...
— Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete • Washington Irving
... slender income. And how could she propose that—how bear to see her delicate and often-ailing mother deprived of the small luxuries which had become necessary comforts? To their letter no answer had come—the creditor was then a patient one; but this thought the more stimulated Olive to defray the debt. Night and day it weighed her down; plan after plan she formed, chiefly in secret, for the mention of this painful ...
— Olive - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)
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