The next arrival brought nearly half a million to the insolvents, but it was too late; they were ruined because their agent, in remitting, had been behind time.
"McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader"
William Holmes McGuffey
"I saw your name among de insolvents, and I vowed, you know, to make you repent dem boots.
"The Fatal Boots"
William Makepeace Thackeray
But it is no index of national prosperity that elegant villas rise like sun-flowers, as gaudy as unprofitable, while gaols are crammed with insolvents or needy culprits, and poor-houses are filled with wretchedness!
"A Morning's Walk from London to Kew"
Richard Phillips