usance

Example Sentences

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Ask usance, since 'tis Thou that sendest rains.

From Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Karpeles, Gustav

He knew that a debt to folly bears no grace, and was ready with his principal and usance.

From When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth by Major, Charles

He vindictively, however, raised his customary "rate of usance," and swore in his own hardened heart that the needy borrowers of Delhi should recoup him fully before a year.

From A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story by Savage, Richard

Everything in it, tolerable or intolerable, will have but one use; and that use what our ancestors used to call usance or usury.

From Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

It means a certain time fixed by custom as between any two places, and the period covered by a usance will therefore depend on the places of drawing and payment.

From The Gentleman's Model Letter-writer A Complete Guide to Correspondence on All Subjects, with Commercial Forms by Anonymous