usance
Example Sentences
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I heard that there followed hard on the jewels Two braces of stallions of striking resemblance, 20 Dappled and yellow; he granted him usance Of horses and treasures.
From Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem by Lesslie Hall
He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice.
From William Shakespere, of Stratford-on-Avon His Epitaph Unearthed, and the Author of the Plays run to Ground by Scott Surtees
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
He it was who prepared their bonds and contracts, and placed out their ill-gotten gains at exorbitant usance.
From The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 An Historical Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth
The usance of wealth and the service of laborers at the moment rendered constitute forms of income.
From Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II by Frank Albert Fetter
