usance
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They wanted me, forsooth, To lend you, at the lawful rate of usance, For the state's needs.
From The Universal Reciter 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems by Various
I'll lend no money gratis and bring down the rate of usance.
From A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties by Charles Major
He it was who prepared their bonds and contracts, and placed out their ill-gotten gains at exorbitant usance.
From The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 An Historical Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth
Usance payable at Florence or Leghorn, is two months; but from thence payable at London, usance is three months.
From The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) by Daniel Defoe
He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice.
From William Shakespere, of Stratford-on-Avon His Epitaph Unearthed, and the Author of the Plays run to Ground by Scott Surtees
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