She borrows a daughter, and pays her good wages to help in her domestic toil, and sends a son to help the labors of Mr. Jones.
Shakespeare borrows a final touch from Plutarch, which, in his hand, becomes a masterpiece of bloodthirsty irony.
Ethelwerd, it is true, borrows most of his facts from the Chronicle, from Bede, and other known sources: but there are some passages which show that he had access to a source now lost.
It, the truth of to-morrow, borrows its mode of procedure, battle, from the lie of yesterday.
The plot borrows enough from history to give it dignity, and to counterbalance in some measure the predominance of the passion of love which the invented parts of the drama exhibit.
He observes that Drummond “frequently borrows and sometimes translates from the Italian and Spanish poets.
He borrows his illustrations from many quarters, from morbid and anomalous states of consciousness,--less from the cases of savages, children and animals.
If he borrows the same machine from his neighbor under contract to return the machine in good condition at the end of the season, he pays rent for its use.
Even when he borrowsfrom his neighbors, it is possible that he secures a larger interest, though he calls it profit, than he pays the lender.
In either case, the first farmer borrows what he wants in carrying on his business, and at the end of six months, through a similar transaction of finding some one ready to take his product, pays his note with corn.
The young man who borrows his neighbor's farm, expecting at the end of five years to make that farm his own, gives a mortgage note, promising at the end of five years to return an equivalent value for the farm, with annual interest.
A farmer who borrows a mowing machine from the warehouse, giving his note for its value, pays, when he returns that value at the end of the year, interest upon his note.
One who borrows anything, expecting to return not the thing itself but its equivalent in value, is said to borrow upon interest.
One who borrows the same thing, expecting to return the identical thing, is said to pay rent for its use.
Our first task is therefore to enquire what this spell was, and to discover whether the attraction of Euphues must be ascribed to Lyly's own invention or to artifices which he borrows from others.
The commander-in-chief, of course a rich and great lady, borrows a list of unknown young men from other hostesses and invites them to her ball.
The Indian borrows money very easily, but it is very difficult to get him to pay it, and he generally avoids doing so, if possible.
These enemies of the saints are to appear and be overthrown before the millennium; and although John borrows the names of these enemies, (ch.
This borrowing or adapting is so much a habit that he obviously borrows from himself, using under similar circumstances what seem to have become almost formulas of his thought.
As to secular princes and courtiers, Folly borrows from the oration of "her friend Erasmus" to Duke Philip, and adds little to the commonplaces of criticism upon their wild and reckless living and their disregard of the good of their subjects.
He is the true light, the true life, the sun is not that true light though it give light to the moon and to men, for it borrowsits light and shining from him.
They then seized Mrs. Borrowsand one of her children, and carried them off with them.
Horace, who borrowsmany of his phrases from Terence, uses the same expression.
An examination of these passages seems to prove that 1 Peter borrows from Jude and not Jude from 2 Peter.
If we could positively say that the Apocalypse was written in the 2nd century, and positively say that 2 Peter borrows from it, the question would be settled once for all.
The hard and fast term of three months which prevails in Ireland for small loans is unsuited to the requirements of the agricultural industry--as for instance, when a man borrows money to sow a crop, and has to repay it before harvest.
The society borrows at four or five per cent, and lends at five or six per cent.
A metaphor or a comparison borrows from a foreign matter a sensible and natural image of a truth.
But Mimi is wiser in moon-lore: she borrows half a franc from her mother "to show to the Moon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "borrows" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
