What is "debts"

Usage examples of "debts".

I was in need of one hundred sequins to discharge a few debts, and I begged M.

We could live on the profits of the business, if there were no debts, but as it is everything goes to pay the interest, and our sales are not large enough to cover everything.

Heleine was also in Warsaw, but his principal occupation was to contract debts which he did not mean to pay.

I got up in order to go and pay a few small debts, for one of the greatest pleasures that a spendthrift can enjoy is, in my opinion, to discharge certain liabilities.

He told me, much to my surprise, that his bishopric, although not one of little importance, brought him in only five hundred ducat-diregno yearly, and that, unfortunately, he had contracted debts to the amount of six hundred.

It was generally supposed that his mother had refused to pay his debts, and that he had run away to avoid his creditors.

I made haste to pay my debts, and immediately afterwards I started for Augsburg, not so much for the sake of seeing Father Balbi, as because I wanted to make the acquaintance of the kindly dean who had rid me of him.

I paid divers small debts he had incurred, and gave him the wherewithal for his journey.

I then discharged my debts and found I was eighty guineas to the good, this being what remained of the fine fortune I had squandered away like a fool or a philosopher, or, perhaps, a little like both.

He only wrote a letter to the Englishman Collins, to whom he owed a thousand crowns, telling him that like an honest man he had left his debts where he had contracted them.

Bomback, a citizen of Hamburg, whom I had known in England whence he had fled on account of his debts, had come to St.

I might have despised the slanders and left the country, but I had contracted debts and had not sufficient money to pay them and my expenses to Portugal, where I thought I might do something.

With this notion, he set himself to sow debts broadcast, and only laughed at his tutor when he mildly reproached him for his extravagance, and pointed out that if he were saving for the present, he would be able to be all the more magnificent on his return to Venice.

With this he paid most of his debts, and gave his mistress ten thousand crowns, she returning the document entitling her to that amount.

Her husband might have his suspicions, but he was too happy at being enabled to pay his debts and to keep his shop open to say anything unpleasant.