541 collocations for borrowed

You can borrow the money from her.

When he returned, he found his debts paid off; but knowing he was master of so ready and effectual an expedient, he, the next day, borrowed double the sum at the old rate.

Betty had seen Bob at a football game, and had borrowed fifteen dollars from him.

You had the confounded cheek to borrow from me the very book of songs you used when you wrote the parody, and you were fool enough to leave the rough copy in it when you brought it back.

"Don't borrow trouble," advised Uncle John.

The Left at first had confined itself to irony, and borrowing from me a word to which people then attached, though wrongly, the idea of decrepitude, had called the sixteen Commissioners the "Burgraves."

Have to borrow your horse till we reach Whoop-Up.

I might here borrow the quaint phrase of Herodotus and say, "Now I have done speaking of" John Cabot.

The explanation of this neglect is, perhaps, that the Elizabethans were too busy originating to find time for copying; they were very willing to borrow ideas, but must be allowed to develop them in their own wayusually along dramatic lines for stage purposes, because this was at that time the most financially profitable.

Mr Hunt arrives in ItalyMeeting with Lord ByronTumults in the HouseArrangements for Mr Hunt's Family-Extent of his Obligations to Lord ByronTheir CopartneryMeanness of the whole Business On receiving Mr Shelley's letter, Mr Hunt prepared to avail himself of the invitation which he was the more easily enabled to do, as his friend, notwithstanding what he had intimated, borrowed two hundred pounds from Lord Byron, and remitted to him.

For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then, to borrow the elegant language of the play-bills, be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.

"Well, Cody," said he, "the best you can do is to make some excuse, and then go and borrow a gun from some of the men, and tell the General that you lent yours to some man to go hunting with to-day.

It followed him down to the shore of the inlet, and compelled him to give up, for that day, all idea of borrowing a respectable boat.

Instead of retiring early, as the Tartars always do, the men in the hut kept a watch upon the travellers; and the suspicions even of the driver were awakened, when one of them came to him, as he was lying by his horses, to borrow his knife.

Then he borrowed an old copy of Adam's Latin Grammar from Dr. Greenfield, and committed the rules to memory without a teacher.

Be as the sun to day, the day to night, For from your beams Europe shall borrow light.

Talk of borrowing things brought a reminiscent flush to her cheek.

Perhaps it was to shew the full efficacy of this virtue in all its lustre, that Heaven allotted to this excellent personage a domestic calamity, which appears (to borrow an expression from a great writer) 'of an unconscionable size to human strength.'

Mephistopheles borrows the form, the eye, and the tooth of a Phorkyad and transforms himself very acceptably into an image of the Supreme Ugliness.

At Ashbourne, where I had very little company, I had the luck to borrow Mr. Bowyer's Life; a book so full of contemporary history, that a literary man must find some of his old friends.

Mr. Van Torp did not hesitate to borrow similes from another world when his rather limited command of refined language was unequal to the occasion.

Being told that the geographer near Charing Cross was Faden's son, he said, after a short pause:"I borrowed a guinea of his father near thirty years ago; be so good as to take this, and pay it for me.

Has it solved the truths for the solution of which it borrowed the aid of reason, and has it not often made a religion which is based on deductions and metaphysical distinctions as imperative as a religion based on simple declarations?

Quoth he, "Good Brother What-e'er- thy-name-may-be, as thou hast borrowed my bed so freely I'll e'en borrow thy clothes in return."

But if that tree should fall and die, Tumble shall heaven, and down will I. Here are now a few chosen from many thatto borrow a term from Crashawmight be called DIVINE EPIGRAMS.

541 collocations for  borrowed