His house, his business, indeed, his whole life was heavily mortgaged.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

To her, novel ideas meant the overthrow of succession of crops, ruin under the name of improvements and methods; in short, mortgaged lands as the inevitable result of experiments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beatrix] Reference

Except this time, U.S. banks aren't selling packages of so-called mortgaged-backed securities to investors; the banks are selling "credit cardholder debt" to investors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indymedia Ireland] Reference

"Why, I thought this eighty was already mortgaged!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference

We will not allow the torch of liberty to be mortgaged.    From Wordnik.com.  [House Republicans Unveil 'Pledge To America'] Reference

We mortgaged the future to make Wall Street happy today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don McNay: America's Hangover From the Bailout Party] Reference

Carter's media man, Jerry Rafshoon, mortgaged his house to buy ads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iowa’s Field Of Dreamers] Reference

The rent of a house can only be mortgaged to a person in possession.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

The governor turned to Ebenezer Brown for assistance, and mortgaged 'The.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference

You'll have spent that money already if you're still mortgaged to the hilt.    From Wordnik.com.  [SPECIAL MONEY GUIDE, THE RETIREMENT RACE] Reference

That's what he tells his mother who mortgaged her house to pay for college.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Bar] Reference

  Your mother and I double-mortgaged the old house to pay for Amy's lessons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adults at Home] Reference

As a business fact he knew the place was already mortgaged for all it was worth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference

The government has mortgaged a substantial portion of its oil earnings, contributing to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

To scrape together money for his final television ads, he recently mortgaged his house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colorado Democrats Bennet and Romanoff wage nasty, personal Senate battle] Reference

He had a wife and four kids, but mortgaged his house to start a telecom company in June 1997.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Would Be King] Reference

Because I wasn't working, I started living off of the cash I took when I mortgaged the property.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lender could end up paying if all fees were not revealed at buyer's closing] Reference

They mortgaged their home to pay his mounting medical bills but recently took a more radical course.    From Wordnik.com.  [SPECIAL MONEY GUIDE, THE RETIREMENT RACE] Reference

My brother has lived a very reckless life; he has mortgaged our family estates beyond their market value.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Successful Shadow A Detective's Successful Quest] Reference

To stay afloat, she mortgaged her Stockholm apartment and cobbled together a few paltry government grants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Innovation: A Springtime For Techies] Reference

"We would have mortgaged the building if we had to," says Tom Donahue, head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giving Them The Business] Reference

A modern-day pleasure kingdom, Dubai has mortgaged its past in exchange for freehold ownership of its future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond The Glitz] Reference

The government has mortgaged a substantial portion of its oil earnings, contributing to a shortage of revenues.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

"None of these CIA chaps have anything more than a mortgaged house," says John Waller, one of the fund raisers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Spy Network] Reference

LANGFITT: Indeed, Ford mortgaged itself before the recession and had enough cash to solvent through the downturn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good Reputation Propels Ford Up Image Survey] Reference

As you know, I mortgaged the home eighty -- it hurt some to do that, knowing you'd have to sign it -- and began slower.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference

I shall never forget one day at lunch after Dr. Janeway had been seeing some of these mentally mortgaged men and women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Personal Recollections of Dr. Janeway] Reference

McCain made what he claimed was a new proposal to rescue over-mortgaged homeowners: McCain: As president of the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nonsense in Nashville] Reference

His fourth startup, he mortgaged his house to fund it, but he says he wasn't nervous: "You kind of know when you're on to something.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Late-Blooming Billionaires] Reference

Almost all of its assets are mortgaged, except for an art collection donated to the school some 60 years ago by artist Georgia O'Keefe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fisk University Struggles Through Financial Crisis] Reference

Neptune, and would, at that particular moment, have mortgaged his prospects in the future to have been able to set foot on terra firma.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pirate of Parts] Reference

Moreover, the government has mortgaged a substantial portion of its oil earnings, contributing to the government's shortage of revenues.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference

Moreover, the Congolese Government has mortgaged a substantial portion of its oil earnings, contributing to the government's shortage of revenues.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1996 CIA Factbook] Reference

He was always, moreover, "a close calculator," and, with a wisdom worthy of all imitation, never mortgaged the future for the convenience of the present.    From Wordnik.com.  [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference

If the mother has been inoculated with the virus of syphilis her existence is equally wretched; her health is ruined; her efficiency is forever mortgaged.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

The government has mortgaged a substantial portion of its oil earnings through oil-backed loans that have contributed to a growing debt burden and chronic revenue shortfalls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference