usance

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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

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 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

Equally good house usance would cost more in nearly all towns, and much more in larger cities.

From Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II by Fetter, Frank Albert

Usance between London and Hamburgh is two months, Venice is three months; and double usance, or two usance, is double that time.

From The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) by Defoe, Daniel