usance
Example Sentences
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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
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 Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
I'll lend no money gratis and bring down the rate of usance.
From A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties by Charles Major
Be warned that unless the 8 shillings and the usance thereof be forthcoming, the town-crier shall notify the sale of the sundry articles named.
From Shakespeare's Insomnia, and the Causes Thereof by Franklin H. (Franklin Harvey) Head
But it has been a tiresome business, with its investigation of titles and rights of usance, and court copyhold fines, and—Bother the business, it has taken up no end of time.
From The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by George Manville Fenn
