usance
Example Sentences
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Usance payable at Florence or Leghorn, is two months; but from thence payable at London, usance is three months.
From The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) by Daniel Defoe
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
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 Frank Albert Fetter
I know him," the king said, "and have bought many rare articles of his handiwork, and more than once when I have needed it have had monies from him on usance.
From At Agincourt by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
And two usance is two months; reckoning not from the acceptance of the bill, but from the date of it.
From The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) by Daniel Defoe
