Their only aim in life seems to be preventing the escape of their victims, and they either let them get into debt for their board or borrow money from them.
I know a church in the next block that I can borrow for the occasion.
I may want to borrow money of you, and you can't ask a loan from a man you've kicked.
But we would just borrow them, you know," explained Mrs. Norton.
Oh, I don't think it would do any harm for us to borrow a few stones," said Kitty Wright.
I am a bad housewife to be so long from them; but I must needs borrow a little time to talk with thee, my sweet heart.
Be fire with fire; Threaten the threatener, and out face the brow Of bragging horror: so shall inferior eyes, That borrow their behavior from the great, Grow great by your example.
She was informed that she could borrow three books at a time, as soon as certain inquiries as to her identity and residence were carried out, and this would take a few days.
He had been everywhere trying to borrow more, and he had failed.
He, Lobley, had an automatic pistol illegally at home, and if Teddy would like to borrow it he could soon bring himself back to his old form.
No, indeed, Cynth, I'll have to be pretty hard up before I borrow of a girl.
I'd like to have a horse, and if I cared to ask far one, I could borrow one.
Do you think you can borrow four hundred thousand dollars in San Marcos County, Mr. Farrel?
Saddle a horse at once, go down to the mission, and borrow some from Father Dominic.
And the man who outbids me for that horse will have to mortgage his ranch and borrow money on his Liberty Bonds.
His wife had been enabled to get a pot of her own, and was no longer obliged to borrow one from a neighbor; nor had they ever since been without something of their own to put in it.
An acquaintance with the apprentices of book-sellers [he tells us in the Autobiography] enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one, which I was careful to return soon and clean.
Another proof, we might say in passing, how little disposed Franklin was to borrow from Richard Jackson, or any one else without due acknowledgment.
In point of clearness, such compound words would have the advantage of any we can borrow from the ancient or from foreign languages.
The Commissioners could not borrow money either upon the public or upon their own private credit.
In that dull sheet, they were, to borrow Shakespeare's image, like bright metal on sullen ground.
They withdrew the sword and entered upon some arrangements with the community, who had to borrow the required amount from some of the convents.
If this ethics does not appear moral enough for the sentimentalists, usually hysterical and silly, let them go and borrow altruism from its high priest Spencer who will give a vague and insipid definition of it, such as will satisfy them.
The worst form of borrower is he who borrows with the intention of repaying, for you know he intends to borrow again.
He tells also of another poor acquaintance of Rickman's--one Simonds with a slit lip, who has been to Lamb to borrow money.
Mind, I am not in debt, I only borrow a similitude from others; it shows imagination.
For of those who borrow, some read slow, some mean to read but don't read, and some neither read nor meant to read, but borrow to leave you an opinion of their sagacity.
When they borrow my money, they never fail to make use of it.
We'll borrow the rifle, pay for some cartridges, and have a big shooting match.
Now, if Roundy can borrow the launch--" Roundy was sure he could.
And you think this farmer will take us to Belden, when all we can do is to promise him that we will pay him after we get there and borrow the money?
Do all that you borrow or beg or buy Prove to be nothing but skilful paste?
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrowits mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
Borrow afterwards described this earlier version as “a paraphrase.
But if, by accident, two or three hours are sometimes wanting for some useful purpose, borrow them from your sleep.
Put out your time, but to good interest; and I do not desire to borrowmuch of it.
Simpson, passing through the door, "do as I did, borrow one!
Let me say to such of them as may read these pages: Do not permit selfseeking men, small Americans, to borrow your splendid organization and glorious prestige to carry out their petty aims or personal spites.
Many of these people were heavily in debt and it was almost impossible to borrow any more to tide over the emergency.
Since the panic of 1857 the Treasury had faced a deficit at the end of each year, and had been compelled not only to spend its accumulated surplus on current needs, but to borrow heavily.
We scarce bestow a glance upon the present; or, if we do, 'tis only to borrow light from hence to manage and direct the future.
Danby to offer him a thousand pounds, with a promise of a lucrative place at court, which Marvell refused, notwithstanding he was immediately afterward compelled to borrow a guinea of a friend.
The great Tasso was reduced to such a dilemma that he was obliged to borrow a crown from a friend to subsist through the week.
You may just hint that I talked of her statuary, as you may assist her if she has a mind to borrow anything to copy from the Great Duke's collection.
James must make a new one for himself, as he would have had to do if no William had existed; and if William likes to borrow it again for another plank, all is fair.
The peasants accordingly borrow guns, out of the manufacture of which the capitalists get a percentage, and men of science much amusement and credit.
John Wesley told his followers “to die sooner than put anything in pawn or borrow or lend on usury.
The verse into which Stephens did his author was for the most part rugged and prosaic, but a few passages are happily turned, and his successor did not disdain toborrow some lines and phrases from him.
From these, Petrarch and Chaucer frequently borrow the idea of their poems.
