| 单词 | usurious |
| 例句 | He was holding the Lombard back and shouting, “You offer a usurious rate! Forty percent! Forty! My uncle offered thirty. Thirty is reasonable! Thirty is standard! But thirty is undercutting now?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z To pay his Lynx membership dues, Dud borrows money, at usurious rates, from his pawn broker. “Lodge 49,” Reviewed: Channelling Pynchon to Capture California’s High Hopes and Deep Loss 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Antisemitism had long traded on the stereotype of the Jew as Shylock, the usurious, heartless banker. "Woke communism”: How corporate America became the bogeyman of today's anti-communist crusaders 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z Travelers on the east/west road, now partially flooded, were hostages to a private ferry operator who offered lake crossings at usurious prices. Over Snoqualmie Pass and off the road, to grandmother’s house they swerved 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Nearly two decades ago, the state made it a felony to offer high-interest payday loans that state lawmakers described as usurious. How title lenders trap poor Americans in debt with triple-digit interest rates 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z "This legitimises a parallel banking system with usurious interest rates and no investor would be attracted to such an economy where lending can be suspended overnight." Zimbabwe's bank lending freeze will worsen economic crisis -business chamber 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z In the case of individuals, Mr. Cameron defended the practice as a sort of populist alternative for some people to usurious payday-lending schemes. David Cameron Faces Inquiry Into His Dealings With Finance Firm 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z "The primary target is indigent and talented players from Latin America. Few if any top American talents who received large signing bonuses would ever consider the usurious terms," Boras said. Moneyball: Tatis took cash as prospect, owes part of fortune 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z “The primary target is indigent and talented players from Latin America. Few if any top American talents who received large signing bonuses would ever consider the usurious terms,” Boras said. Moneyball: Tatis took cash as prospect, owes part of fortune 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Many factors are believed to contribute to the suicides, including poor crop yields, expensive farm chemicals and usurious money lenders. Angry Indian farmers prepare for massive Republic Day rally 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z “This is a launch disaster,” one Twitter post declared, vowing not to cave to usurious prices. PlayStation 5 scalpers use bots to hunt down scarce consoles 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z And so they resort to an underworld of private, unregulated moneylenders who charge usurious rates, according to government officials as well as borrowers. ‘Achieving the American Dream’ With a Loan and a Smuggler 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z He said Warren’s real problem was usurious credit card interest rates, not the bankruptcy bill. Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren: Frenemies from way back, now 2020 rivals 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Predatory lenders targeted black neighborhoods for their most usurious subprime mortgages before the 2008 housing crisis, according to a study by two Princeton sociologists. Perspective | Reparations for slavery aren’t enough. Official racism lasted much longer. 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Burdened with debts, often on usurious terms from local moneylenders, thousands of farmers are killing themselves each year. The verdict on India’s strongman, Narendra Modi 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z Most of the criticism we’ve heard about the soda tax is that it’s usurious. Story of Seattle: The city’s new soda tax is usurious — and also too low 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z “Charging usurious interest and exorbitant fees, and even signing people up for loans they didn’t authorize, Moseley put financially struggling people even further in debt.” Missouri businessman sentenced to 10 years for payday lending scheme 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Consumers who couldn’t afford to travel to Hawaii or the mainland resorted to backyard lenders and paid usurious rates. Analysis | When banks abandoned American Samoa, the islands found a solution nobody had used in a century 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z If the cost of living seems usurious, and it does, then how are so many people cheerfully paying it? $75 tolls and $200 martinis: Seattle’s future is nearer than you think 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z These protections already exist, according to Ellman: federal and state laws on unfair and deceptive trade practices that make it illegal for marketers to “lie, cheat or steal” or to charge usurious interest rates. Your mortgage application may trigger competitors to tempt you with other offers 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Don't these people have better use for their time and money which is by and large publicly funded from grants or usurious tuition fees. In Picasso’s Blue Period, Scanners Find Secrets He Painted Over 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Many of the failing institutions sank the money into speculative investments during a real estate bubble, lent to well-connected friends or charged usurious interest rates to desperate borrowers. How Corruption and Cronyism in Banking Fueled Iran’s Protests 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z And if this helps Walmart's underpaid, exploited, struggling workers avoid fees and usurious interest payments to payday lenders, then it's a start. Walmart Will Let Its 1.4 Million Workers Take Their Pay Before Payday 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z In addition, many bondsmen allow defendants to pay only a proportion of the bond premium upfront, lending them the rest at usurious interest rates, when legally allowed. TV made America's bail system famous. Now reformers want to end it 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z African Americans living in postal codes with depressed incomes likely do respond disproportionately to ads for usurious “payday” loans. 'I'm an ex-Facebook exec: don't believe what they tell you about ads' 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z In an interview, Jeffrey Seller, the lead producer of “Hamilton,” called scalping “a usurious, parasitic business that only serves to create a new profit center between the artist and the consumer.” Congress Moves to Curb Ticket Scalping, Banning Bots Used Online 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z My fees are close to .75%, which is usurious, especially given that just over a year ago they were well below .3%. How to Fix a Retirement Plan at a School or Nonprofit 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z The analysts noted that some “market participants are already restricting their exposure to potentially usurious loans” in New York, Connecticut and Vermont. Justices Defer on Case Limiting Debt Collectors 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z “This kind of naked loan is actually taking advantage of the online platform to operate an illegal usurious offline business,” they said. China's 'naked loans' force female students to bare all in return for more cash 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z Indeed they say they face exploitation at every step: from real estate agents who charge exorbitant penalties for late rents to salesmen who charge usurious rates of credit on white goods. 'We are the forgotten people': the anguish of Australia's 'invisible' asylum seekers 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z He also offered some new consumer-friendly proposals such as capping automated teller machine fees at $2 a transaction and limiting credit card interest rates, which he called “usurious.” Bernie Sanders Attacks Hillary Clinton Over Regulating Wall Street 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z And in The Divine Comedy, Dante reserved a special place in the Seventh Circle of Hell for those who charged people usurious interest rates,” he said. Bernie Sanders outlines plan to end Wall Street's 'greed, fraud and arrogance' 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z Other schemes existed to cheat crew members, such as forcing them to buy clothing at inflated prices or to pay usurious interest on advances on their pay. Fin-tech 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Postal banking, she wrote, could provide short-term loans and “potentially drive out the usurious fringe-lending sector, which profits from Americans’ financial woes.” Should the post office also be a bank? 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Or it might be the usurious interest rates charged to those who need credit — like the sub-prime mortgage rates that ensured so many people would default in the housing meltdown. Greece Faces Another Income Inequality Squeeze Game 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z This is especially problematic in the financial services markets, where most individual consumer losses are low-dollar amounts as a result of such things as usurious interest rates, predatory fees or potentially illegal charges. CFPB Data Shows Forced Arbitration Leaves Consumers High and Dry 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z In our present state, government spending and usurious rates of taxation are both barriers to production. What Would Stimulate The Economy More? Tax Cuts Or Spending Reductions? 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z For decades, Native Americans have been among the groups most targeted by usurious loans. Indian tribes gambling on high-interest loans to raise revenue 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z But those countries don't have graduates leaving college with a diploma in one hand and a usurious student loan in the other. The Great Wage Slowdown, Looming Over Politics 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Once that monopoly is obtained, the tech vendor uses it to extract usurious and typically unanticipated costs. Silicon Valley will destroy your job: Amazon, Facebook and our sick new economy 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z “Like most practitioners, my attitude was that I thought they were terrible and that the costs were usurious,” he said. Love Them or Loathe Them, Reverse Mortgages Are Here to Stay 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Many resort to emergency loans from private lenders known as sawkars, who extend credit far more easily than banks but often charge usurious interest rates of as much as 120% per year. Farmer suicides reflect growing desperation in rural India 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z It was on his watch that the company was left so short of cash during the financial crisis that it was forced to borrow money from Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim at usurious rates of interest. Why New York Times Chairman Arthur Suzlberger Must Go 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z It's not really appropriate to conflate usurious rates on consumer loans with high interest rates on corporate investments. Obamacare and inequality: A healthy dose of redistribution 2014-01-29T17:29:55Z But the refinancing contained usurious interest rates, unexplained balloon payments, surprise fees, and the prospect of either speedy default or expensive litigation. The racism that still plagues America 2014-01-20T16:00:00Z Separately, on August 5, the New York Department of Financial Services sent letters to 35 lenders, including Western Sky Financial, directing them to stop lending monies at usurious rates in New York. New York State sues Internet lender over 'exorbitant' loan rates 2013-08-12T22:41:36Z London Mayor Boris Johnson - who was once criticised for accepting sponsorship of the Tube from Wonga - said there was "no doubt their rates are usurious". Welby 'embarrassed' by Wonga link 2013-07-26T19:38:04Z The rate at which banks could borrow was 1.5%, hardly a usurious charge. John Maynard Keynes's hypothetical grandchildren 2013-05-08T19:59:01Z Such criticism was vocalised by the future Archbishop of Canterbury who described the terms of some of their loans as "usurious" and its business model as "morally wrong". How can social enterprise help people tackle financial exclusion? 2013-02-21T08:00:03Z We found a broker and paid a usurious $1,200-a-ticket for seats five rows from the court. 50 memories of MJ 2013-02-17T01:09:00Z The rates are clearly usurious, to use an old fashioned expression. Payday loan firms face cap after government U-turn 2012-11-28T21:09:40Z I warn that student debt cannot be discharged in bankruptcy and that the current interest rates are usurious. America and Europe: Virility symbols 2012-08-03T16:23:53Z "Daniel Gordon ... stole funds from his ex-wife, Laura Gordon, and proceeded to launder the theft through a usurious loan to an innocent party, Mr. Curry," said Curry's filing in the bankruptcy case. Merrill Lynch embezzler now faces bankruptcy woes 2012-07-22T15:55:08Z Seeds and fertilizers are distributed by a government-owned cooperative and credit is allocated through a state-owned bank — at usurious rates of interest, farmers say. Egyptian Farmers Make Themselves Heard 2012-06-27T21:04:53Z "An Islam ... that permits gambling parlours, nude beaches and usurious banks, secular laws and submission to international law." Qaeda's Zawahri calls on Tunisians to defend sharia 2012-06-10T19:31:08Z But he was able to liquidate all such scores with most usurious interest. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z It is true enough that he dabbled in alchemy, and probably he made his alchemical experiments useful in connection with his usurious transactions. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z The rate of interest usual in these countries must not however be calculated from the data furnished by these usurious rates and fixed rates of interest, simply. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z Here he was having to ask for loans at frightfully usurious rates, on the security of his distant and famous wealth, which for the first time was regarded somewhat contemptuously!... The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z The rates may seem usurious but they are set by people who are in effect lending to themselves and saving the interest that they charge. Helping the poor to save: Small wonder 2011-12-08T16:17:06Z It will ultimately triumph, and with usurious interest for all delays. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z There isn’t enough money to confiscate from the rich, even at usurious tax rates, for the government to keep the promises it made to seniors. Supercommittee Fails to Identify Even Bogus Cuts: Caroline Baum 2011-11-22T15:16:16Z Contemporaneously in Rome, a similar rate of interest must have been considered usurious. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z Nothing, so he says; but, between ourselves, I think that he lends money at usurious rates. San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams 2011-11-14T03:00:22.247Z These Princes, who detested Prussia, but who trembled before the Revolution, for the most part accepted the usurious bargain proposed to them. The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville 2011-11-02T02:00:13.477Z "A second-rate play-actor, too," echoed Lydia First, "and ended by lending money at usurious interest!" The Woman Who Vowed The Demetrian 2011-10-24T02:00:18.500Z Imposing usurious taxes on the top 1 percent of earners won’t yield enough money to provide for the other 99 percent. Baum: Protests Ignore Legitimate Gripe 2011-10-07T00:23:02Z And that was not all; the accounts increased, and my father was obliged to give his note and pay usurious interest. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z And so you went without fire, to pay that usurious old miser who owns this furniture, sixty per cent per annum, for the use of it. Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated 2011-08-31T02:01:20.473Z The Jews were wealthy, and did no small harm by their usurious practices. The English Church in the Middle Ages 2011-08-01T02:00:14.773Z The Republicans are in favor of usurious payday lenders, credit card issuers and crooked mortgage-mongers. Obama's Compromises: Debt Talks and Financial Reform 2011-07-24T05:18:14Z Her Marathon, which Ms. Lebowitz has painstakingly restored over the years, can occasionally be a burden: along with paying usurious parking garage fees, she has replaced the gas tank and exterior chrome. New Yorker With Flair Extols Another: Her Checker Cab 2011-06-27T20:27:57Z Our post-office orders are issued at usurious rates, and within limited hours. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z He borrowed from his predecessors with all the licence of genius, but he payed usurious interest on his borrowings. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z Typical, he said, were overtures from two consultants who wanted him to advocate for opposing positions on the regulation of “payday” loans, widely criticized for usurious terms that hurt low-income borrowers. Odd Alliance: Business Lobby and Tea Party 2011-03-31T03:14:00Z In the later middle ages, especially in Germany, it acquired the sense of usurious or oppressive dealing with money and capital. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z Shylock is a Jew, therefore a moneylender; a moneylender, therefore rich; rich, yet a miser, and therefore of little value to the community, which remains unbenefited by his usurious loans. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z More often the rate of exchange is usurious on the part of the man. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z I did not think it worth while to waste words over the usurious interest charged; but signed my name with cavalier sangfroid, and the ring was transferred from Master Meyer's hand to my own. Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale 2010-12-30T03:00:21.423Z Coughlin, an early supporter of Roosevelt, trained his fire on finance capitalism, inveighing against its usurious, unchristian “parasitism.” The strange history of Tea Party populism 2010-05-03T21:20:00Z "We must avoid paying usurious interest for decades, condemning the country to a deep recession," he said. Barroso wants EU to agree loans for Greece 2010-03-20T00:45:00Z Congress sleeps while the nation's usurious borrowing and lending fever reaches dangerous highs. 2009-12-17T17:00:00Z For as soon as any one gets a penny or a groschen that is a little better than another, he forthwith makes with it usurious profit. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. The troops of useless servants, the riotous disorder of the household, the unchecked, unbridled waste on every side, demanded supplies to raise which they were already reduced to loans at usurious interest. Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) Money is loaned at usurious rates to some rogue who poses in history as the President of the lamb republic or to some spendthrift imbecile of a Khedive. American World Policies Having all material wealth beyond any other people, at no time has the doctrine of universal labour and repudiation of the fictitious riches of metallic hordes or usurious accumulations been so invariably denounced. Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison There is a great amount of indebtedness among the peasantry and usurious practices abound. Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products Now you are no longer satisfied with the fruit of which you took tithes more jealously than any usurious pasha. Timar's Two Worlds My father learned that he was using his position in our church to lend money to other members at usurious interest, and to collect it under threats of exposure. The Deaves Affair If, for example, we were to leave the Philippines entirely alone, various enterprising capitalists would immediately organise and support corrupt native governments, lend money at usurious rates and secure exclusive concessions. American World Policies For some of them it meant another loan in Berlin or Cologne at usurious interest, with no prospect of ever discharging the principal, which meant nothing less than ultimate ruin and disgrace. A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day Bousquier had seemed to be stubborn; but the presentation of his former stories, which now, like creditors, extorted an ever-increasing usurious interest of lies, sufficed to render him tractable. The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature Nominally banks were restricted to a certain standard rate of interest; but by various subterfuges they easily evaded these provisions and exacted usurious rates. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times Your hacendado master contrives that you cannot pay even his usurious interest. The Missourian By advancing money at usurious rates the alcalde bleeds those who borrow from him, and in fact such unfortunate people can almost never get square with the world again. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. What moral conviction is expressed in the condemnation of usurious interest and of rack-rent? The Social Principles of Jesus Its first effect was to break up all the private pawn-brokers' establishments which charged usurious interest for money, its own rates being placed at a low figure, intended barely to meet necessary expenses. Aztec Land Medi�val and other theorisers on usury have been laughed at for their arguments as to the 'unnatural' nature of usurious gain, and its consequent evil. Sir Walter Scott Famous Scots Series And of a truth, his paunch and double chin and ruddy cheeks seemed to illustrate what the priest told me about his usurious propensities. The Book of Khalid The price of money is so usurious that he thinks it ought to be extorted from none but those who aim at profitable speculations. James Madison We make ourselves overzealous agents of heaven, and demand that our brother should bring usurious interest for his five Talents, forgetting that it is less easy to manage five Talents than two. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete This sum you will not lose: it will be repaid to you, and with usurious interest; or if it never should, you still make a good thing of it. Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora In the meantime, I exploit the "poor brothers" and I appropriate the lion's share of the fruit of his labor; he is made to pay me an usurious profit on my investments. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature Industrial art did not keep pace with usurious calculations, and trades were concentrated in the capital. Ancient States and Empires I tack’d no usurious obligation to the bond he gave me, and I never came to ask you for security. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 And how he raised it: From usurious insatiable Jews; every fresh Jew sticking on him like a fresh horseleech, sucking his and our life out; crying continually, Give, give! Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. It is a doctrine that raised an outcry in every Continental bourse, and struck terror to every gambling European investor in national loans, floated at usurious profits, to raise funds for unjust wars. Problems of Expansion As Considered In Papers and Addresses If he had found the first subsidy difficult to refuse, how might he resist the second, or, he added to himself, with a sort of usurious exaltation, the depravity of the two combined? The Flaw in the Sapphire I have known men with tears in their eyes to give to the poor one day an' rob them the nex' in usurious interest an' rent, as cheerful as they gave the day befo'. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills In permitting a temporary defalcation from your treasury, you consider yourselves as only lending out your capital at more usurious interest. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 I would ask more, but that, you know, would be usurious!” Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters This was charged up against him to be paid for later at usurious interest. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers In vain did he apply to a rich neighbor, who was in the habit of lending goods and money at usurious rates; having no security to offer, he could borrow nothing. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore Short loans were adopted that we might not bind the future to the payment of usurious rates of interest. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. The managers may be stupid dolts, only so they do not interfere with the usurious principle in its eternal pull on the resources of mankind. Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View Edwin smiled at her, and she returned his smile with usurious interest. Clayhanger And right thankful ought we to be, when we have found any investment whatever which will return us such rich usurious interest for what is in itself so intrinsically valueless. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 446 Volume 18, New Series, July 17, 1852 The most usurious prices for a twenty-four hours’ turn were freely paid. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City The Archbishop, therefore, denounced this new method of usurious traffic, and hinted further that to it was due the fierce rebellion which had for a while plunged Florence into the horrors of the Jacquerie. Mediaeval Socialism Shylock hated him because he would lend without interest, and was constantly reproving him for his usurious practice. Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View Formerly all loans of that nature were regarded as usurious. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary They had thought to triumph by proving that in fact to give to others is to put one's money out at a usurious interest. Life of St. Francis of Assisi But, for this advance of kindness, it usually exacts a most usurious return in the end. Early Reviews of English Poets Therefore, likewise, whatever else is acquired from usurious money must be restored. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province In settlements that have had experience with the usurious methods of Christian natives, one finds here and there an individual who tries to follow the example set him by people that he looks up to. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir Those who are only compilers, imitators, commentators, splitters of phrases, usurious critics, in short, those on whom a genius has no pity, will always remain drops of water. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary I thought my sister had long since learned that borrowing trouble necessitated the payment of usurious interest? Infelice The pecuniary supplies necessary towards his outset, at this epoch, were procured from money-lenders at an enormously usurious interest, the payment of which for a long time continued to be a burden to him. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 1 With His Letters and Journals Or again, He speaks here not of the hope of usurious gain, but of the hope which is put in man. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Save those who have settled atPg 263 Belgrade, and who drive a most lucrative and usurious trade, they have sunk back contentedly to a level with the rest of their compatriots. Herzegovina Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels Straightway he rings for the secretary, and issues a smartish general order, in which the wretched captain of the offending ship catches the reprimand, with a most usurious allowance of interest. The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels About this time he also discovered that Eugene had been borrowing money at usurious interest to pay debts he had contracted, and he was so indignant that he ordered him to leave his house. Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business A debt of an hundred millions growing by usurious interest, and an artificial paper phalanx overruling the agricultural mass of our country, with other et ceteras, have a portentous aspect. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 Wherefore he has more right to the goods acquired with usurious money than to the usurious money itself. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province I enclose you a draft for the usurious interest due to Lord * *'s protégé;—I also could wish you would state thus much for me to his Lordship. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals You could see at a glance that he had paid no usurious interest to Fate on his success; that his vigor and zest in life remained to him undiminished. The Clarion Indians who have money and do not merely hoard it prefer to lend it out, often at usurious rates of interest, to their needy or thriftless fellow-countrymen. Indian Unrest He had obtained money from great numbers of small tradesmen and farmers, tempting them by usurious interest, which has made the distress very extensive. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 Old D'Ewes considered this loss as a punishment for the usurious loan of money; the fact is, that he had purchased that manor with the interests accumulating from the money lent on it. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 His honesty was his capital … and he exacted usurious interest from it. A Reckless Character And Other Stories He cherished the hope of being able to repay the English with that usurious interest with which men of all grades love to discharge their debts of the kind. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 The usurious European assignee supersedes the Nabob's native farmer of the revenue; the farmer flies to the Nabob's presence to claim his bargain; whilst his servants murmur for wages, and his soldiers mutiny for pay. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) Not only can no more be collected on any contract or obligation than the legal rate, but in most of the states there is some forfeiture for taking usurious interest. The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens. I owe what, if ever it be in my power, I shall most certainly pay,—ample atonement and usurious amends to liberty and humanity for my unhappy lapse. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) In another village, the gunchō who spoke to me of these things said, there were several usurious landlords. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People There are no “Gombeen men” here, he says, and no usurious shopkeepers. Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) On his coming of age, the festivities at Newstead were celebrated by means supplied by money-lenders at enormously usurious rates of interest. Thrift Then Swallow began to take interest in politics and to lend money to the small farmers, taking mortgages at carefully guarded, usurious interest. Westways Love is a usurious plant, whose sun never goes down; a romance sweetens the mood as May dew sweetens the blood. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Through divers channels some of my fellow-creatures—specimens of the most dreadful prose—have let me know that upon marrying I shall forfeit their usurious regard. Aftermath And how he raised it: From usurious insatiable Jews; every fresh Jew sticking on him like a fresh horseleech, sucking his and our life out; crying continually, Give, Give! Past and Present But it is no easy matter to be always honourable in all mercantile dealings and not to become usurious. An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching I did not mean to insult Mrs. Penhallow," said Swallow; "I apologize—I—" "You miserable dog," said Penhallow, "you are both a coward and a lying, usurious plunderer of hard-working men. Westways It was chiefly from the patrician that the bill concerning debts detracted the usurious gains which had been counted upon. Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic We speak, for example, familiarly of a usurious contract, and yet we say, speaking technically, that a usurious agreement is no contract. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style But there was yet a third person, who gave the usurious knight more uneasiness than the other two. The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 An Historical Romance The unjust change was when the contract was a usurious transaction veiled in the guise of a genuine exchange. An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching Yes—a usurious scamp of a lawyer, who to our relief has left Westways. Westways Others having business capacity gave themselves up to gathering riches; to usurious speculations which at this time held chief place among the Romans. Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic The treasury was empty, for no contributions could be collected from an impoverished population, and the island's future was compromised by loans at usurious rates. The History of Puerto Rico From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation But were a man never so usurious, would he not lend a winter seed for a summer song? A Kentucky Cardinal To increase the price in return for the giving of credit was not allowed, as it was deemed usurious—as indeed it was. An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching Not many loaned money to them willingly and only in small amounts and at usurious rates of interest. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 He wore a black velvet skull-cap, and looked usurious and rich. The Uncommercial Traveller Our little ‘boy’ Kleenboy hires a room for fifteen shillings a month, and takes in his compatriots as lodgers at half a crown a week—the usurious little rogue! Letters from the Cape I beg pardon for using Latin so frequently in discussing this subject; it is an homage which I pay to the most usurious nation that ever existed. What is Property? He knew perfectly well from bitter experience that the poor man pays usurious rates for fortune's favours. The Crimson Blind His ambition to remain in power necessitated the expenditure of large sums which he obtained through improvident foreign loans and usurious contracts with local merchants. Santo Domingo A Country with a Future Would he not even, she dared to hope, remit the interest due on his money?—of which she entertained, in her ignorance, a usurious and preposterous idea. Far Above Rubies One of the salesmen learned that Don Telmo drew up contracts of sales on reversion and made a living by lending money on houses and furniture, and at other such usurious business. The Quest Now began such a contest as was seldom if ever seen; the descendants of a petty-fogging attorney, a bankrupt tailor, a usurious splitfig, &c. &c. &c. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3 Moneylenders had charged usurious interest for default, and debtors were crying for novae tabulae, and hoped to clear themselves by bankruptcy. Caesar: a Sketch I explained the situation to them, after which they made me certain propositions, which were so usurious, so outrageously extortionate, that they took my breath away. Youth and Egolatry When all these four conditions are fulfilled, and yet interest is exacted upon a loan, such interest is usurious and unjust. Moral Philosophy The latter alone was henceforth prohibited as usurious. Early European History More troublesome than this effort of Weston was the obstruction of the Company in England, and its usurious practices; the colonists finally bought them out, and relied henceforth wholly on themselves, with the best results. The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 He lent money to the spendthrift young lords, but with sound securities and at usurious interest. Caesar: a Sketch It is true the Filipinos are responsible legally to the extent of five dollars only, a special enactment prohibiting these usurious bargains. The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes Probably the Hon. Robert owed a great deal of money to Beddingfield, which the latter hoped to recoup at usurious interest, with threats of scandal and what not. The Old Man in the Corner "This is usurious vengeance, Signor Giacomo," returned the less resolute Jew. The Bravo First they gained a law which prevented patricians from taking usurious interest. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. The Treasury was nearly empty, and was maintained even at its alarmingly low level only by borrowing from foreign bankers at usurious interest. England under the Tudors By no sort of subterfuge were they to be permitted to be usurious. Philip Dru Administrator : a Story of Tomorrow 1920 - 1935 Some of these acts, demanded by the banking interests, made the people of the United States pay an almost unbelievable usurious interest for loans. Great Fortunes from Railroads The prince knows, through Badinot, that your man of straw, Petit Jean, was only a name borrowed by you for the purpose of making the usurious loans to the Viscount de Saint Rémy. Mysteries of Paris, V3 The request was made that all loans with interest be not considered usurious; a request resisted in some cases by the clergy, which clung to the old laws of usury. The Eve of the French Revolution "The Bank," by barter and usurious methods, amassed a great heap of well-thumbed squares, and, when accused of rapacity, invented a scheme for the common good known as "Huntoylette." The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Retorts the Tartar: Shall I lend mine only ready-money now, For vain usurious Then like thine, avaunt, a triple idiot Thou! The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi "I thought you didn't hev the money," said the squire, his lower jaw falling; for he would have preferred the ten dollars' forfeit, and a renewal of the usurious contract. Bound to Rise An usurer; more than five in the hundred being deemed usurious interest. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue The church was a thoroughly corrupt, usurious and politicized body which contributed greatly to the ever increasing misery of its flock. Terrorists and Freedom Fighters The essence of Christian giving seems to be real giving, and not a sort of usurious loan. Where No Fear Was This work brought him in eight hundred francs in the form of long-period promissory notes, which he was obliged to discount at a usurious rate, besides sharing the profits with his collaborator. Honore de Balzac For all your cuffings, cuffing you again With most usurious interest. The Hunchback The industry of selling town lots far out in the cornfields, and of buying unimproved subdivision property with borrowed money at usurious rates of interest, was one riding for its own fall. The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West The local populace was the victim of usurious taxes, coercively applied. Terrorists and Freedom Fighters Ahab was liberal, Joram miserly, nay, he even indulged in usurious practices. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 He had begun life as an obscure financier by lending small sums of money to workmen at usurious interest. Dubliners I had also remittances from my faithful mistress in Prussia; and, in addition, was obliged to borrow money at the usurious rate of sixty per cent. The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 1 Banks did not care much for the land as security—it was practically worthless without the cattle—but they would lend money on cattle at rates which did not then seem usurious. The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West Again, it is charged, or rather insinuated, that officers of the Bank have loaned money at usurious rates of interest. The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843 While we indulged in every pleasure, he lent out his money at usurious interest. Caught in the Net Cassier was a banker by name, but in reality dealt in usurious loans, Shylock-like wringing the pound of flesh from the victims of his avarice. Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius Mrs. Hayes had exerted herself, with much benefit to her husband, in his usurious business. Catherine: a Story She made, so it was said in business offices, usurious loans by means of her brother, who appeared as a money-lender. The Lesser Bourgeoisie The tears in her voice were the payment of what must be called a usurious speculation of love. The Lily of the Valley Rigou, whom the peasants had disliked for usurious dealings, now suddenly represented their political and financial interests, supposed to be threatened by the Restoration, and more especially by the clergy. Sons of the Soil Since I have gone into high society, I have seen monsters dressed in satin, Michonneaus in white gloves, Poirets bedizened with orders, fine gentlemen doing more usurious business than old Gobseck! The Commission in Lunacy Against this tapestry, and just cutting off Holofernes's head, stood an enormous ominous black clock, the spoil of some other usurious transaction. Catherine: a Story His recent usurious transaction had whetted his appetite. Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space Though against the papal theory, which denounced usurious practices, an immense papal banking system had sprung up, in connection with the Curia, and sums at usurious interest were advanced to prelates, place. hunters, and litigants. History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science The falls had taken her usurious share of the lives the river annually demands as her toll. The Riverman Every debt he owed in the world, including the pawnshop, with its usurious interest, amounted to less than a hundred dollars. Martin Eden |
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