I hate him for he is a Christian; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice.
Usance payable at Florence or Leghorn, is two months; but from thence payable at London, usance is three months.
Usance between Antwerp and Genoa, Naples or Messina, is two months, whether to or from.
Usance from London to Seville, is two months; as likewise between London and Lisbon, and Oporto, to or from.
Usance from London to Rouen or Paris, is one month; but they generally draw at a certain number of days, usually twenty-one days' sight.
Usance from Antwerp or Amsterdam, payable at Venice, is two months, payable in bank.
Usance from Genoa to Rome is payable at Rome ten days after sight.
Usance between London and Hamburgh is two months, Venice is three months; and double usance, or two usance, is double that time.
Usance between London and all the towns in the States Generals' dominions, and also in the provinces now called the Austrian Netherlands [Belgium], is one month.
And two usance is two months; reckoning not from the acceptance of the bill, but from the date of it.
Make drink your usancein my company And flout the time that languishing doth go.
So Selim sat and wrought at his craft; and he used every day to earn two dinars; and this was his wont and usance with the cook, whilst the latter fed him not but half his fill.
Equally good house usance would cost more in nearly all towns, and much more in larger cities.
The usance of wealth and the service of laborers at the moment rendered constitute forms of income.
E) "He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice.
For its usance I send a package of a new herb from the Chesapeake, called by the natives tobacco.
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.
Having dined orderly and with mirth, not unmindful of their wonted usance of dancing, they danced sundry short dances to the sound of songs and tabrets, after which the queen dismissed them all until the hour of slumber should be past.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "usance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
