1 The world will think you abandoned and poor, for the wife of a bankrupt would never be forgiven, were she to keep up an appearance of opulence.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 106. Dividing the Proceeds. 2 There was no longer any doubt, the bankrupt was in the hands of Roman banditti.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 114. Peppino. 3 She undersold him so relentlessly and delivered, with secret groans, such an excellent quality of lumber to prove her probity that he was soon bankrupt.
4 He was naturally a very nervous, shuddering sort of little fellow, this bread-faced steward; the progeny of a bankrupt baker and a hospital nurse.
5 But, as the nineteenth century has gone bankrupt through an over-expenditure of sympathy, I would suggest that we should appeal to science to put us straight.
6 Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life.
7 Twenty thousand bales of ginned cotton went yearly to England, New and Old; and men that came there bankrupt made money and grew rich.
8 Moreover, the system is bound to bankrupt the tenant.
9 Daisy, who was fond of going about peddling kisses, lost her best customer and became bankrupt.
10 Every human being held it as an article of faith that the farm would go bankrupt sooner or later, and, above all, that the windmill would be a failure.
11 But at last he became bankrupt, and God sent him other misfortunes also.
12 These accidents did sometimes happen in the best regulated families of Coketown, but the bankrupts had no connexion whatever with the improvident classes.