Meanings of imprison for debt in English

In that day and time, men were imprisoned for debt in England.

I was next asked if I were imprisoned for debt?

Following the Spanish custom, men are imprisoned for debt.

If Ravaillac had not been imprisoned for debt, he would not have stabbed Henry of Navarre.

Once more, however, he was imprisoned for debt.

1 The prison where Drawlight was imprisoned for debt in November 1814.

He was imprisoned for debt, and sank into such abject poverty that he depended on his friends for bread.

But, waiving these remarks, I own I am unwilling to be either imprisoned for debt, or punished for imposture.

After the King's return, he, obtained a scanty subsistence by flattering men in power, and was frequently imprisoned for debt.

Though she had been heiress to a large fortune, she soon spent it all, and was at length imprisoned for debt.

They obtained a judgment for the amount claimed and, as Penn could not pay, they had him arrested and imprisoned for debt.

It was, however, originally conceived by the moving spirit, James Oglethorpe, as an asylum for poor men, especially those imprisoned for debt.

But now young Oglethorpe had a friend who was imprisoned for debt, and, being treated in this horrible fashion, he died of smallpox.

Churchill was imprisoned for debt, occasioned by his dissoluteness and extravagance,-Cowpercharacterizing him as "spendthrift alike of money and of wit."

He was imprisoned for debt after his failure; nor was this the only time that he found himself within the walls of a jail.

Settling down at Perth, he was imprisoned for debt, but gained his freedom and also a bounty for enrolling in the navy as a volunteer.