post-obit

Example Sentences

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‘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

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

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

What a thing that post-obit had turned out!

From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

I propose that you execute in my favor a post-obit on your uncle's life, giving me—well, we may have to wait a long time.

From Running Water by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)