post-obit

Example Sentences

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By bill or by bond, by living usury, or by post-obit liquidation, by all the means that private friends or public offices could supply, the sinews of war would have been forthcoming.

From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

‘I should have imputed these debts to mere heedless extravagance, like other people’s—like my own, if you please—save for your own words, and for finding you capable of such treachery as borrowing on a post-obit.’

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

I wonder how long an interval there was between the two; it would be a pretty calculation for a post-obit.

From The Perpetual Curate by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

It had never occurred to him that, by redeeming the post-obit bonds, Mountjoy would become capable of owning and enjoying any property that might be left to him.

From Mr. Scarborough's Family by Trollope, Anthony

Here, wealthy misers to inter,   We've shrouds of neat post-obit paper; While, for their heirs, we've _quick_silver,   That, fast as they can wish, will caper.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael