get on credit

Example Sentences

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Except boots, Denry could get all he needed on credit; boots he could not get on credit, and he could not pay cash for them.

From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold

The trader could not procure the twine, and when spring arrived the man came to get on credit his usual advance of "tings."

From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir

My people want all they can get on credit, not thinking of the day of settlement.

From A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia by Brawley, Benjamin Griffith