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  • Kamar al - Zaman, for that he had been friend and friendship hath its debtorship; yet he rejoiced in the dispelling of the doubts which had befallen him anent his wife, since the young man was now gone and his suspicions had not been stablished.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The sentimentalist is he who would enjoy without incurring the immense debtorship for a thing done.

    Ulysses 2003

  • So the Apostle preached 'not where Christ was named,' having a zeal to discharge his debtorship of making known to all nations God's gift of grace.

    The First Soprano Mary Hitchcock

  • The sentimentalist is he who would enjoy without incurring the immense debtorship for a thing done.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • -- _The sentimentalist is he who would enjoy without incurring the immense debtorship for a thing done.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Assuredly he was not one to avoid the incurring of the immense debtorship in any way: but he was a bondsman still to the woman who had forsaken him, and a spoken word would have made it seem his duty to face that public scandal which was the last evil to him.

    Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868

  • Assuredly he was not one to avoid the incurring of the immense debtorship in any way: but he was a bondsman still to the woman who had forsaken him, and a spoken word would have made it seem his duty to face that public scandal which was the last evil to him.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Assuredly he was not one to avoid the incurring of the immense debtorship in any way: but he was

    Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • Zaman, for that he had been friend and friendship hath its debtorship; yet he rejoiced in the dispelling of the doubts which had befallen him anent his wife, since the young man was now gone and his suspicions had not been stablished.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Ronald Reagan, father of the debtorship society, fired six department heads in his first term, and made a point of first humiliating and then firing his deficit-hawk OMB director David Stockman.

    Libertarian Blog Place 2009

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