usance

Example Sentences

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Still, like a spreading ulcer, which leech-craft may not cure, Let your foul usance eat away the substance of the poor.

From Lays of Ancient Rome by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

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 Major, Charles

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 Surtees, Scott

The solemn bore, who holds that speech Was given us to prose and preach, And not for lighter usance, Straight should be sent to Coventry; Or omnium concensu, be Indicted as a nuisance.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 335, October 11, 1828 by Various

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