How To Use Usurer In A Sentence
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The usurers are leeches;they have drained us dry.
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In people's minds, Shylock is a cunning, cruel and venomous Jewish usurer.
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That the usurer is the drone, that Virgil speaketh of;
The Essays
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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.
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The nation remains at the mercy of banking usurers.
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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
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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)
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A man may be a first-rate soldier, doctor, banker -- as we call the usurer now-a
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 4
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If you oblige many men to be money-lenders, some will assuredly be usurers.
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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
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A cloud passed over his face as he struggled with the information and his companion's jaw dropped in disbelief at the usurer's injunction.
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I care not, though, like Anacharsis, I were pounded to death in a mortar: and yet that death were fitter for usurers, gold and themselves to be beaten together, to make a most cordial cullis for the devil.
The White Devil
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He governed Sardinia, expelling usurers and restricting the demands made on the Sardinians for the upkeep of himself and his staff.
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Peruse any illustrated Inferno, and you will find, among the pictured thieves, usurers, murderers, and traitors, numerous tonsured pates, episcopal miters, and papal tiaras.
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Shylock, the Jew, lived at Venice: he was an usurer.
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II. i.195 (251,4) [usurer's chain] I know not whether the _chain_ was, in our authour's time, the common ornament of wealthy citizens, or whether he satirically uses _usurer_ and _alderman_ as synonymous terms.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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To ask Jacob to lend me money, to beg him to give me more time to pay a debt, to cajole and bully him by turns, to call him alternately usurer and _my honest fellow_, extortioner and _my friend Jacob_ -- my tongue could not have uttered the words, my soul detested the thought; yet all this, and more, could Mowbray do, and did.
Tales and Novels — Volume 09
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That the usurer is the greatest Sabbath – breaker, because his plough goeth every Sunday.
The Essays
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All evils, they repeat again and again, are caused by the erroneous teachings of the ‘dismal science’ of economics and the ‘credit monopoly’ of the bankers and usurers.
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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.
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Unfortunately, Antonio's money is currently tied up in shipping ventures, but because he desperately wants to help his dear friend, he goes to the usurer Shylock to borrow the funds.
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When with the marks of the rods imprinted in his flesh the youth rushed out into the public street, loudly complaining of the depravedness and inhumanity of the usurer; a vast number of people, moved by compassion for his early age, and indignation at his barbarous treatment, reflecting at the same time on their own lot and that of their children, flocked together into the forum, and from thence in a body to the senate-house.
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
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The merchant boasted to him: ‘After the war between France and Germany I was a usurer and with extorting, cozening, forfeiting and tricks belonging under brokery, I filled the gaols with bankrupts in a year.’
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His successor, Richard I, was yet more severe, forbidding the usurers attending his coronation, nor would he protect them from mob violence.
Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View
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Usurers haggle in the village square.
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That the usurer is the drone that Virgil speaketh of:
Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View
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That the usurer is the greatest Sabbath breaker, because his plough goeth every
Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View
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Fast wind of video-tape, then the final expulsion of the usurers.
PASSION IN THE PEAK
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Here's one to a very doleful tune, how a usurer's wife was brought to bed of twenty money-bags at a burthen and how she longed to eat adders 'heads and toads carbonadoed.
The Winter's Tale
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Hafner and Ardea have laid bare two detestable souls, the one of an infamous usurer, half German, half Dutch; the other of a degraded nobleman, in whom is revived some ancient 'condottiere'.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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In the West the taking of usury was prohibited to both the clergy and the laity in the ninth century, and the sanctions against usurers were intensified by a series of conciliar decrees between 1179 and 1311.
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That the usurer is the greatest Sabbath-breaker, because his plough goeth every Sunday.
XLI. Of Usury
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In the first scene, the First Citizen describes the Senate the 1% of ancient Rome: They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor.
What Shakespeare Thought About the 1%
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Usually, the usurer is a fourth party that stands yet behind the third party, taking no risks, demanding complete security for his loan and also an increase out of the products of the operators.
Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View
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In people's minds, Shylock is a cunning, cruel and venomous Jewish usurer.
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Like the figures of usurers at Dijon, the sculptures at Mainz stood as explicit warnings for men and women to steer clear from vices so as to avoid becoming like their hapless sculptured counterparts.
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This done, Catchpole is rich for four months at least, as if bastinadoes were his real harvest; for the monk, levite, usurer, or lawyer will reward him roundly; and my gentleman must pay him such swingeing damages that his acres must bleed for it, and he be in danger of miserably rotting within a stone doublet, as if he had struck the king.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Blasphemers, sodomites, and usurers are punished here by the blistering heat.
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If, however, a field be bought with the profits of usury, the usurer is bound to pay tithes on the produce, because the latter is not gotten usuriously but given by God.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Where the actual producers fall prey to usurers and merchants, because of their lack of market power, they are reduced to a subsistence existence and forced to part with the surplus product.
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The Chaldean is compared to a harsh usurer, and his ill-gotten treasures to heaps of pledges in the hands of a usurer.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Dearth was of such obvious advantage to the usurers that it was commonly believed that they used sorcery to prevent rain from falling.
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That the usurer is the drone that Virgil speaketh of; Ignavum fucos pecus a præsepibus arcent.
XLI. Of Usury
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They are guarded better by their calculations than a virgin by her mother and her convent; and they have invented the word caprice for that unbartered love which they allow themselves from time to time, for a rest, for an excuse, for a consolation, like usurers, who cheat
Camille
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That the usurer breaketh the first law, that was made for mankind after the fall, which was, in sudore vultus tui comedes panem tuum; not, in sudore vultus alieni.
The Essays
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At the end of ten years everything was paid off, everything, the usurer's charges and the accumulation of superimposed interest.
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This departure from his regular and constant habit, in one so regular and unvarying in all that appertained to the daily pursuit of riches, would almost of itself have told that the usurer was not well.
Nicholas Nickleby
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Each began to gather troops and to borrow money from usurers.
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Heres one to a very doleful tune, how a usurers wife was brought to bed of twenty money-bags at a burden; and how she longed to eat adders heads and toads carbonadoed.
Act IV. Scene III. The Winter’s Tale
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III. ii.6 (78,4) [since, of two usuries] Sir Thomas Hammer corrected this with less pomp [than Warburton], then _since of two_ usurers
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies