I took her note that night and with others--the whereabouts of which I learned from the maid and which I indirectly purchased from the holders--I took all these to a notorious money-lender and made a deal with him.
That same day the money-lender paid the lady a call.
The rate of interest is no further lowered by this operation, than inasmuch as it brings together the lender and the borrower in a safe and expeditious manner.
The lender incurs less risk, and a larger proportion, therefore, of the holders of capital are willing to be lenders.
The banker, to the extent of his own private capital, (the expenses of his business being first paid,) is a lender at interest.
The son of the money-lender was in a perspiration now and mopped his face with his handkerchief.
Fraisier was to the member of the Incorporated Law Society as the money-lender of the Halles, offering small loans for a short period at an exorbitant interest, is to the great capitalist.
He who is the hardlender of to-day to-morrow is the generous contributor to his own payment.
It worried him, and though Price slept, the money-lender did not.
The lender is telling the borrower how difficult it is to get money, and how much Smith had to pay for a thirty days' loan yesterday.
This is of no interest to Jones, who is hanging on the words of Mr. Shylock as a lover drinks in the soft nothings of his mistress, but it gives the lender opportunities to find out how "hard up" his victim is.
The money-lender sent for Peter Johnson and told him that he had altered his mind, and that the bags and their contents must be home again that very night.
For in no case is thelender required to put up any money.
If there be any truth in the story, he did ruin Daly, by advising some money-lender to buy up all his liabilities.
The gentleman you are pleased to call a money-lender is my father; the conduct you allude to was simply the advance of a large sum on mortgage.
In order to prevent perjury we have decreed that the lender need not accept the oath of the borrower but may, if he wishes, challenge him to a duel, and so [by defeating him] prove his indebtedness.
If the lender is so important a person that he does not wish to fight the borrower on such an account, he may appoint someone to fight for him.
If the borrower would not agree to pay the tax, the lender would not loan him money, and whenever possible loans would be foreclosed and payment insisted upon if the borrower should refuse to pay the tax.
Respecting the incidence of the tax on mortgages, it does not make any difference how mortgages are taxed--no earthly power can make the lender pay it.
He earned bread thus, but no more, and his necessities caused never ending pressure, still relieved constantly by the aid of the pawnbroker, or the money lender at usurious rates.
The money-lender had borne with me longer than either of us had expected that he would; but now he wheeled back his chair and stood up, a pillar of peril and a mouthful of oaths.
No money-lender would ever get justice in a British court of law; easier for the camel to thread the needle's eye.
The money-lender swore an oath of sheer incredulous surprise, but checked himself at that and tried one more poser.
Certainly it was inconsistent with the big bribe offered for his immediate freedom; but it was with something more than mere adroitness that the money-lender had reconciled the two things.
The money-lender was at visible grips with some new difficulty.
Teddy glanced at it, clutched Raffles by the hand, and went up to the money-lender as though he meant to take him by the throat before us all.
The well-known money-lender found bound and handcuffed in an empty house!
It was no longer home, for every article of furniture, every tool, every scrap that was of any value had been ruthlessly seized by the heartless money-lender whom the Law permitted to rob under the name of a bill of sale.
I believe you; he turned a man inside out the other day; a money-lender he was.
The term used in reference to the loan made by Iddin-Merodach implies that the lender accepted a share in the property that was bought instead of demanding interest for his money.
In some instances the money-lender founded a business which lasted for a number of generations and brought a large part of the property of the country into the possession of the firm.
It is true that in such cases the business was managed by an agent; but the lender of the money, and not the agent, was legally responsible for all the consequences of his action, and it was to him that all the profits went.
It is possible that the prejudice which has always existed against the money-lender may have encouraged Beli-litu to commit her act of dishonesty and perjury.
Then he resorts to the money-lender to borrow money to buy food or pay his rent, and to raise the money he often agrees to sell his next crop to the money-lender at a price which the money-lender himself will fix.
The Parsee is the banker and money-lender of India.
The price is very low, and the money is at once swallowed up to pay rent or the interest on the last loan, and so the peasant is driven to apply to the money-lender once more to obtain funds to carry him on to the next harvest.
When a ryot cannot make both ends meet, and he is in trouble either about his rent or his taxes, it is to the money-lender that he flies for assistance.
The money-lender is one of the oldest features of Indian village life.
When the money-lender came to fetch his instalment, Pelle shut the door in his face.
Treasury in the condition of a borrower, instead of that of a donor or lender of money.
The English were borrowers of every thing connected with this code; and it is absurd in us to borrow from a borrower--to copy from a copyist--when we have the original lender and the original text before us.
This indirect policy is less feasible in countries where the Money Market is already a borrower rather than a lender in the international market.
If the Money Market is not a lender in the international market, the Bank itself must be at pains to become to some extent one.
Presenting a long and elaborate theory of "mental, usury" he arrives at the conclusion that, if the borrower pay interest of his own free will, the lendermay keep it.
The first was the doctrine of "damnum emergens": if a lender suffered loss by the failure of the borrower to return a loan at a date named, compensation might be made.
Of course it may be said in favour of the money-lender that he is obliged to charge these high rates, to cover the extra risk, and that as a rule, he is generally prepared to forego half his legal claim when the time for payment comes.
The lender lends because he has money to lend and wants to earn interest on it.
Here again, as in commerce, there arises a possibility of quarrelling, not only between the lender and borrower but also between rival groups of lenders in different countries.
It is exactly the same with the borrower and lender of money.
This report is most interesting, for it marks an epoch, and in it the struggle for supremacy between the lender and the borrower is brought out in full relief.
Thus the relation between lenderand borrower was mixed up with the relation between sovereign and subject.
Pinga escaped from the house after seeing the money-lender hide the tube inside his clothes, and less than a minute later a lean man ran like the wind to Gungadhura's palace to confirm the first's report.
He hardly dared seize Mukhum Dass or have him robbed, because the money-lender was registered as a British subject, which gave him full right to be extortionate in any state he pleased, with protection in case of interference.
Eying her like a hawk, but with more mixed emotions than that bird can likely compass, the money-lender sat his mule and watched her stride round the corner out of sight.
Mukhum Dass the money-lender has been to me to give thanks, and to make a meager offering for the recovery of his lost title-deed!
The money-lender stood irresolutely, shifting his balance from foot to foot.
Mukhum Dass the money-lender has been foully murdered, struck down by a knife from behind by some one who relieved him of his money.
Chamu did not know, and the money-lender went himself to see.
The money-lender betrayed a glimpse of sheer pugnacity that seemed to amuse his tormentor.
The debt to the money-lender was paid, and the youngster again found himself surrounded by all the luxuries of an aristocratic home.
A note forwarded announced that the money-lender would be with Mathews at six to the moment.
Neither money-lender nor his friend appeared at the theatre.
He knew that the money-lender was gratified by the frequent appearance of a brougham at the door.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lender" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: banker; factor; moneylender; mortgagee; pawnbroker
