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So will mortgage rates, leading later this year to a slowdown in housing construction.

From Time Magazine Archive

The hard task of presenting to Him a life which will bear His own eye and win His approval will mortgage the best strength of all your best years.

From Five Young Men Messages of Yesterday for the Young Men of To-day by Brown, Charles Reynolds

I will help him, I will mortgage my house; but who will take it!

From In the Year '13 A Tale of Mecklenburg Life by Reuter, Fritz