The usurer masked his raging emotions, and fulfilled his part in the rites.
The usurer continued to possess a determined hold over the imperious great man.
With some difficulty and much fawning, the usurer appeased the storm he had raised in Audley's conscience.
The usurer doubtless knew what I was saying from the movement of my lips.
I knew the usurer well enough to feel convinced that he would never give up the property to her; there was room for plenty of legal quibbling over a series of transfers, and I alone knew all the ins and outs of the matter.
The usurer commented under his breath with remarks that were not scriptured.
They were demanding information which the usurer owed to the innocent.
The usurer tried to show disinclination to take over real estate in Egypt, but he did not make a very good job of the pretense.
In spite of what the young man knew of Britt's lust for money, he believed that the usurer had worked a scheme to ruin a rival instead of merely operating to add to his riches.
Mr. Harnden, astonished and much hurt, watched the usurer till he tramped into Britt Block.
Probably can be arranged," said a man with the malice against the usurerthat prevailed in the oppressed town.
The usurerstarted back and his face became black with fury.
But, while our legislature passed laws to restrain the usurer in his exactions, the "war profiteer" has no restriction placed on him.
Hafiz may lose his head, and the usurer his money-bags, in the storm that is now gathering," said Sidney in his wrath.
This usurer was distinguished from all others by the circumstance that he could always supply any sum of money required, and would accommodate alike the needy groom and the extravagant noble.
Assuredly the spirit of the old usurer has transmigrated into the picture.
Extraordinary was the effect produced upon the mysterious usurer by this declaration.
A few hours afterwards, on going out, my father learned that the usurer of the Kolómna had died that morning.
I was in paradise when, as a drudge, I cleaned the shoes of my old rascal usurer in the province.
It was said of Henry Duke of Guise, that he was the greatest usurer in all France, for he had turned all his estate into obligations--meaning he had sold and mortgaged his patrimony to make presents to other men.
One hearing a usurer say he had been on the Peak of Teneriffe, asked him why he had not stayed there, for he was persuaded he would never get so near heaven again.
For I do not doubt it is all correct what the usurer says of the tax-dues and of his purchase of the property.
The Tribune is slain; Zeno the usurer is dead, murdered by an unknown hand, without doubt by his slaves, so Johannes tells me.
And when both were silent the usurer continued in a triumphant tone: "You are silent?
A usurer thou art; and he--he is a murderer of body and soul.
The usurer is no way profitable to the republic, neither by tilling the ground, by trade, &c.
The conscience of theusurer becomes alarmed as the hour of dissolution draws nigh.
Trapbois, the usurer in Scott's Fortunes of Nigel ch.
His love of influence and authority resembled the avarice of the old usurerin the Fortunes of Nigel.
One observes that this usurer had received sentence at God's tribunal, and the devils carried it out: the sentence gave them power.
But theusurer said that it was full of demons, who had come to take him.
If he did not redeem them at the fixed time the usurer sold them pitilessly by auction, and without the least delay.
The prisoner who was ruined and insolvent carried to the usurer the few things belonging to him and pledged them for some halfpence, which were lent to him at a fabulous rate of interest.
But never was there any quarrel--and that is very curious indeed--between the usurer and the owner.
Whom did her eyes behold rushing wildly by, like a fugitive, but the generous rescuer of her family from the clutches of the usurer Shund.
When a notorious thief and usurer is elected to the chief magistracy and to the legislative assembly, the victory gained is hardly a creditable one to the spirit of progress, my dear Carl.
The operation was for one year, without any privilege of renewal; this was the longest time at which the usurer ever loaned his money.
As soon as the miser and usurer saw the course events were taking, he very kindly informed Mr. Tompkins that he had just received, unexpectedly, a large sum of money, and should not want the ten thousand dollars due him.
Such were the travelers along the way; but fat abbot, rich esquire, or money-laden usurer came there none.
This philosophical usurer never pressed hard for his debts; like the fowler, he never shook his nets lest he might startle, satisfied to have them, without appearing to hold them.
On a Usurer To Mrs. Biddy Floyd The Reverse The Place of the Damned The Day of Judgment Paulus the Lawyer Lindsay Epigrams by Thomas Sheridan.
The usurer was obliged to return the money, with another twenty for interest, and when he would take the law of the innkeeper, was shown the bond duly cancelled, and was flogged wellnigh to death for his pains.
Riding on an easy rein through the town, Hind heard a tumult at a street corner, and inquiring the cause, was told that an innkeeper was arrested by a thievish usurer for a paltry twenty pounds.
They had reached the counter where reigned the dame who had permitted the improper payment, and, for the sake of his dignity, the usurer thought it proper to make a fuss.
He promised to get them for me from a usurer but told me I should have to give a bill for forty.
I got the amount at last from a wretched usurer at an enormous rate of interest.
Then carefully feeling his way, the usurer ventured an infamous proposition.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "usurer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
