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Meanings of poor debtor in English

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Usage of poor debtor in English
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But the poor debtor has no money upon which to make an interest.
Words for the Wise
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The poor debtor sighed again, and more heavily than before.
Lessons in Life, for All Who Will Read Them
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We have a poor debtor's calendar for registering these things.
Our World; Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter
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He is seldom spoken of but with expressions of tenderness and compassion-thepoor debtor!
McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader
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Marston, yet in gaol, stubbornly refuses to take the benefit of the act,-commonlycalled the poor debtor's act.
Our World; Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter
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It is no remedy to the poor debtor that you prosecute his judge, and threaten him with fine and imprisonment.
History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
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We are all apt to require too much of the poor debtor, and to have too little sympathy with him.
Words for the Wise
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In this latter case the sustenance of the visiting party and all their needs fall, by custom, upon the poor debtor.
The Manóbos of Mindanáo / Memoirs of the National Academy of Sci...
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What right has a poor debtor to demand that the sovereign state of South Carolina make a distinction between poverty and crime?
An Outcast; Or, Virtue and Faith
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The merchant's sleep was sweeter that night than it had been for some time, and so was the sleep of the poor debtor.
Words for the Wise
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What did he wish to do for the poor debtors?
The Beginner's American History
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His greatest work, "The Messiah," was composed in Dublin for the benefit of poor debtors who were imprisoned there.
How to Succeed; Or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune
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By this extensive measure the poor debtors-theThetes, small tenants, and proprietors-togetherwith their families, were rescued from suffering and peril.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
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"The paths crossed-andI am your poor debtor," he finished.
The Price
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But the man has made his pen, and now he registers Marston's name among the state's forlorn gentlemen, commonly called poor debtors.
Our World; Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter
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Georgia, the last of the thirteen English colonies, was granted to Oglethorpe and others as a refuge for poor debtors (1732).
A School History of the United States
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