How To Use usurer In A Sentence
- The usurers are leeches;they have drained us dry.
- In people's minds, Shylock is a cunning, cruel and venomous Jewish usurer.
- That the usurer is the drone, that Virgil speaketh of; The Essays
- The biblical parable of the talents was the central interpretative puzzle in this regard since it appears to advocate usury and, worse still, the careful preserver loses all and the usurer gains more.
- The nation remains at the mercy of banking usurers.
- A man may be a first-rate soldier, doctor, banker -- as we call the usurer now-a-days -- or brewer, orator, anything that leads up to a figure-head, and prove a foolish fellow if you sound him. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
- He associated himself with the justiciar in the appointment of royal officials; he invoked the papal authority to put down "adulterine castles," and to prevent any baron having more than one royal stronghold in his custody; he prolonged the truce with France, and strove to pacify the Prince of North Wales; he procured the resumption of the royal domain, and rebuked Bishop Peter and the justiciar for remissness in dealing with Jewish usurers; he filled up bishoprics at his own discretion. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)
- A man may be a first-rate soldier, doctor, banker -- as we call the usurer now-a Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 4
- If you oblige many men to be money-lenders, some will assuredly be usurers.
- He began in his measured tones, in a voice which handles words as the weight of a usurer weighs gold pieces to the milligramme: The French Immortals Series — Complete