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Adding to his problems, most of the tenants in another building he has mortgaged are short on rent and long on excuses.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2016
But the notion that IBM has mortgaged its future to do so is a hard case to make.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2014
"Make no mistake about it," wrote Scripps-How-ard's Richard Starnes, "Teddy Kennedy has mortgaged his brother's Administration."
From Time Magazine Archive
Again and again he has mortgaged the cathedral to buy more television time; eventually listeners become happy contributors.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has mortgaged the income of his estates, which, of course, he is unable to sell, as they go with the title to the heir.
From In the Irish Brigade A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain by Charles Mills Sheldon
