debt (n.)
- accountability
- arrears
- borrowing
- debit
- debtor
- default
- deficit
- delinquency
- due
- encumbrance
- financing
- hitting
- indebtedness
- liability
- nonpayment
- obligation
- owing
- responsibility
- sin
- touching
- wickedness
- wrong
The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor,
The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door;
The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,—
A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.
The gentleman has not seen how to reply to this, otherwise than by supposing me to have advanced the doctrine that a national debt is a national blessing.
There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.
The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,
Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.
