In 1840 the Barbets had become regular usurers dealing in credits with the firm of Cerizet and Company.
In business relations with the latter, he was one of the most formidable usurers in Paris, during the Empire, the Restoration and the first part of the July Government.
You whom the usurers and the lords With insolent liveries trod, Deep in dark church behold, above Their lance-lengths by a rod, Where we have blazed the tabard Of the trumpeter of God.
If usurers rule and rights decay And visions view once more Great Carthage like a golden shell Gape hollow on the shore, Still to the last of crumbling time Upon this stone be read How many men of England died To prove they were not dead.
The Brutus of usurers was implacable towards his great-niece, but du Tillet himself pleased him by posing as Sarah's banker, and having funds to invest.
Moreover, certain Jewish usurers were suspected of exciting massacres between the Christians and the Moslems, because, their lives being perfectly safe, they would profit by the horrors to buy property at a nominal price.
The Jewish usurers had bought up wheat and corn cheap, and they sold grain very dear; it was practically locked up in the face of the starving, dying multitude.
This gave the usurers the opportunity they had been waiting for, and they wrote to the Foreign Office an untrue and unjust report, saying that the Consul was full of hatred against the Jews, and demanding his recall.
In the end, seeing that Ruggieri was innocent, he released him, and mulcted the usurers in fifteen ounces for the theft of the chest.
All which matters the Stadic heard with great interest, and caused the maid and Ruggieri and the carpenter and the usurers to rehearse them several times.
Of course, the railway and other shareholders will want fresh investments; they won't find them, because no man will pay interest to usurers when he can monetise his credit at the mere cost of banking and exchange.
They include a tobacco man, a whisky man, a newspaper man who sold his journal to the Tories, several usurers and company promoters.
Once in the street, the two usurers looked at each other under a street lamp and laughed.
The two usurerstook a mental inventory of des Lupeaulx's study while he read with amazement and stupefaction a deed of purchase which seemed wafted to him from the clouds by angels.
The usurers all applauded these doctrines with a shake of their metallic heads.
At the same instant Mitral, waiting at the Cafe Themis, saw the two usurers returning, but was unable to perceive the slightest indications of the result on their impassible faces.
In none but usurers and brokers; they deceive no man: men take 'em for blood-suckers, and so they are.
But by no means so, if you ever admit the usurers Gospel of Arithmetic, that two and two make Five.
Such pieces were hoarded by the usurers of the time, and lent out as lawful money.
He drove the usurers entirely out of the island; and restricted or abolished the contributions, usually paid by the allies, for maintaining the dignity of the praetors.
If he preach against extortioners and usurers only, I am with him," Dick Taverner said.
Rather will he take part with the usurers and extortioners who have deprived you of your inheritance.
Fleetwood recalled the law of King Edward the Confessor, which submitted usurers to the ordeal.
I call those usurers who lend money at five or six per cent.
His followers also sought to inflame the hatred to foreigners for which the greed of Greek and Jewish usurers was so largely responsible.
As the usurers did not choose to take on themselves the expense of putting down usury, the whole plan failed in a manner which, if the aspect of public affairs had been less alarming, would have been exquisitely ludicrous.
The whole scheme, it was asserted, was intended to enrich usurers at the expense of the nobility and gentry.
Usurers rob the public chest and parcel out the conquered lands among themselves.
The laws which consume the poor man’s substance and drain his blood are by usurers enacted, by them are executed.
And so they did, or rather the Algerian land speculators and usurers did, since they were vitally interested in 'liberating' their victims from the protection of the family ties.
Usurers made restitution of their gains; engrossers and corndealers threw open their granaries; abandoned women forsook their haunts; the clergy separated from their concubines.
The Jews were much hated by their neighbours, partly as rivals in trade of the native merchant, and as usurers who lent money at exorbitant interest, but most of all because of their race and religion.
He had no longer election agents' bills to worry him, or debts to usurers running up in compound ratio.
If he did not succeed, the usurers had played for a high stake and had lost it, that was all.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "usurers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
