It's tough to be in a lot of it

Usage examples of debt.

By abreacting each day any errors we may have made, we prevent our purgatorial debt from accumulating.

John Adams, by contrast, had neither debts nor slaves and all his life abhorred the idea of either.

OF THE MULTIPLE ISSUES in contention between Britain and the new United States of America, and that John Adams had to address as minister, nearly all were holdovers from the Treaty of Paris, agreements made but not resolved, concerning debts, the treatment of Loyalists, compensation for slaves and property confiscated by the British, and the continued presence of British troops in America.

For Adams, who had argued emphatically at Paris for full repayment of American debt and had never deviated from that view, American reluctance, or inability, to make good on its obligations was a disgrace and politically a great mistake.

If Adams was concerned about making ends meet, Washington had had to arrange a loan to cover personal debts and the expense of moving to New York.

Writing to thank Rush for the volume, Adams assured him it would put mankind still deeper in his debt.

IV A-HUNTING OF THE DEER If civilization owes a debt of gratitude to the self-sacrificing sportsmen who have cleared the Adirondack regions of catamounts and savage trout, what shall be said of the army which has so nobly relieved them of the terror of the deer?

His labors were of the greatest value to the overworked head of the Aldine es-tablishment, and Aldus always recognized his debt of gratitude.

The Canaanites, along with the Phoenicians, the Assyrians, the Moabites, the Aramaeans and others recalled the debts to their gods and offered their children as burnt offerings.

That had been their bargain: Elinor would spend one night alone with Aston, and in return, he would withdraw his petition for repayment of their debt to him for one full year.

You refer to your instructions to me in an earlier letter about get216 Julia Alvarez ting the Ayuntamiento to pay their debt to me.

With the Ayuntamiento debt outstanding andwiththe stipend I am sending you, there is nothing left for frivolities.

Bligh striking out the debts from her ledger-book, her strong-box becoming a catch-basin for the new money, overflowing and spilling out gleaming rivulets down the street to the bankside coffee-merchants, and thence down the Thames into the wide.

But I owe a considerable debt to Guli Sarahi, and going with her to Bokhara may be a small repayment.

Shield of Laigin should come to me easily, for the bouchal who now rules there acknowledges that he owes me a debt for taking to a large measure his part against Rome.