Sample Sentences forusury (auto-selected)
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Of course, any industrial profit above four per cent is considered usury nowadays.† (source)
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Confounding the curses that came his way-and there were many, for his usury was harsh beyond necessity-he continued to prosper, squeezing the life from those hapless creatures who were driven to borrow from him, and gaining his strength from their weakness.† (source)
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This is a kind of usury, banker, that I do not understand.† (source)
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—and had been cheated in too, had he cost but the indifferent sum of a month's usury on a brass farthing let to a tinker out of work.† (source)
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Servant girls returned bracelets which they had stolen from their mistresses, and usurers harangued their wives angrily, in defense of usury.† (source)
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These humane minds were disgusted by the idea of wealth increasing automatically and placed all speculation and transactions involving interest under the rubric of usury, making every rich man either a thief or the heir of a thief.† (source)
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What gorgeous usurer nurtured these fronds for your pleasure?† (source)
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At the end of ten years they had paid everything, everything, with the rates of usury and the accumulations of the compound interest.† (source)
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Jesus himself demonstrated that he was not above talking to harlots, corrupt usurers, and the politically subversive.† (source)
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Lori said it sounded outright felonious, but Dad said all he was doing was outsmarting the fat-cat bank owners who shylocked the common man by charging usurious interest rates.† (source)
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Marvel it is to all living Christian hearts that such gnawing adders should be suffered to eat into the bowels of the state, and even of the holy church herself, with foul usuries and extortions.† (source)
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Do you think I am a Jew-usurer, seeking good investment in land?† (source)
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Finally, behind all her comments, Carol saw the fact that the prairie towns no more exist to serve the farmers who are their reason of existence than do the great capitals; they exist to fatten on the farmers, to provide for the townsmen large motors and social preferment; and, unlike the capitals, they do not give to the district in return for usury a stately and permanent center, but only this ragged camp.† (source)
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You can go to the Carpetbag usurers if you want money.† (source)
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I considered it a usurious amount of money, but agreed nonetheless.† (source)
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'Twas never merry world since, of two usuries, the merriest was put down, and the worser allowed by order of law a furred gown to keep him warm; and furred with fox on lamb-skins too, to signify that craft, being richer than innocency, stands for the facing.† (source)
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