usance

Example Sentences

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The customer himself who buys cotton in Bombay, or wherever it may be, acts according to the custom there to draw a bill to a certain usance.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur

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

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

The plea of long usance would avail him little; another fine would be imposed.

From West African studies by Kingsley, Mary Henrietta

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