Do we say lend or borrow

lend 1924 occurrences

For that reason, I went over to our neighbor's and begged her to lend me a handful.

So I thought, but she said, "Lend?

I have nothing to lend, not even a rotten apple."

Now I can lend her ten or the whole sackful.

It did not comport with the respect he entertained for his own powers, to lend his faith to an account that conflicted with so many of the opinions he had formed on evidence and practice.

"Lend you a handkerchief?" "No, thank you.

If so, my dear fellow, I'll lend him to youTom can go back to the farm in the wagonit comes and goes every day.

Sometimes I lend it to a friend.

" "The only thing I know about his ability," was the blunt reply, "is his ability to borrow a few hundreds from any one fool enough to lend it to him, and then invent excuses for not paying it back.

[Sidenote: is he totall Gules ] With blood of Fathers, Mothers, Daughters, Sonnes, Bak'd and impasted with the parching streets, That lend a tyrannous, and damned light

Fortunately, the farmer was able to lend the sum wanted, and, as he had an errand in town, he took Mr. Hardwick with him in his wagon.

In stripping love, as I have, of everything liable to seduce you, in making it out to be the effect of temperament, caprice, and vanity; in a word, in undeceiving you concerning the metaphysics that lend it grandeur and nobility, is it not evident that I have rendered it less dangerous?

To what, gentlemen, do the minds of children, curious, ardent, and tender, lend themselves, especially the minds of young girls?

I am surprised at the credulity which could ever lend itself to that theatrical juggle.

Unfortunately the prime necessaries of life are the very things which lend themselves most easily to successful adulteration.

Could a county lend money if it had a surplus?

A man may be perfectly willing to lend a friend some money and yet be unable to do so.

Before I could walk a yard from the door, I would have to lend a lantern.

Neither borrow nor lend.

Though deep in mire, wring not your hands and weep; I lend my arm to all who say "I can!" No shame-faced outcast ever sank so deep, But yet might rise and be again a man!

And we shall yet see the more intelligent of them taking the place, at the directors' board, of the retired merchants, physicians, and other respectable gentlemen, who now lend only the names of their respectability to perpetuate a system of folly that has reduced our railroad-management below contempt.

Oh, how much franker it would have been to yield to force than to lend himself to its dishonouring compromises!

He turned his back sharply on the sheriff and asked if any one else had a wagon they could lend him.

In the case of tradesmen, and professional men, the wife is always paid for whatever assistance she may lend her husband in his business.

The murderer either commits the deed himself, or has it perpetrated by one of his slaves, who is ready to lend himself for the purpose, in consideration of a mere trifle.

borrow 1152 occurrences

Why did George Washington and the other fathers of the republic exist, if its daughters must be in bondage to common sense and expediency? Borrow Nell's habit once more, for the criticism to be undergone on the road is mild compared to that of a gallery of spectators before whom you must repeatedly pass in review, and who may select you as the object of their especial scrutiny.

did you have to borrow money?" cried Kathleen.

Some weeks after this affray, a chieftain of the name of Quarmo went on board the same vessel to borrow some cutlasses and muskets.

He touches nothing that does not borrow health and longevity from his festal style.

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.

" "Oh, just borrow Tiny Armstrong's regular ones," Migwan replied.

" "Won't she suspect what we're going to do if I borrow them?"

Tiny, I'll go out and borrow some things for you to wear.

" "You'll have to borrow elsewhere; I am working in a store for a very smell salary, and that I pay over to my mother.

So she did not allow herself to borrow trouble but looked forward hopefully, thanking God for what He had given her.

It may be Mrs. Perkins come to borrow something.

NEVER TROUBLE TROUBLE To borrow trouble is to contract a debt that any man is better without.

We may borrow the wings to find the way We may hope, and resolve, and aspire, and pray; But our feet must rise, or we fall again.

He is compelled to borrow money at an exorbitant rate of interest, and, consequently, sinks deeper and deeper into debt and misery.

Do a man a kindness, he continued, assuming a safer posture, and 'e tries to borrow money off of you; do a woman a kindness and she thinks you want tr marry 'er; do an animal a kindness and it tries to bite yousame as a horse bit a sailorman

His idea was for 'em all to club together to pay the money, and to borrow it from Smith, the landlord, to go on with.

Among the 'best young' as his lordship styles them, were Lord Webb Seymour and Francis Horner; whilst those of the 'interesting old' most noted were Elizabeth Hamilton and Mrs. Grant of Laggan, who had 'unfolded herself,' to borrow Lord Cockburn's words, in the 'Letters from the Mountains,' 'an interesting treasury of good solitary thoughts.'

"I wish," wrote George Borrow, within a short time of the publisher's death, "that all the world were as gay as he.

Then I thought of seasons, when, long ago, Ere Hope's clear sky was dimm'd by sorrow, How bright seem'd the flowers, and the trees how green, How lengthen'd the blue summer days had been; And what pure delight the young spirit's glow, From the bosom of earth and air, could borrow Out of all lovely things.

To borrow money; Third.

The mother especially, as so many great men's mothers do, stands out large and heroic, from the time when, the farm being gone, she, "the ardent book-woman," finds her time too precious to be spent in reading, and sets little Robert to read to her as she workswhat a picture!to the last sad day, when, wanting money to come up to Leeds to see her dying darling, she "shore for the siller," rather than borrow it.

Do you profit, my young and very dear friend, by the experience afforded me by the vicissitudes of fortune, which are such that I am obliged at this present moment to borrow of you the modest sum of two and a half francs.

The journey to Kingston brought no adventures with itexcept that History, of course, had lost his spectacles and his ticket, and had to borrow money of Pretty to keep from being put off the train, and that when they reached Kingston they came near forgetting Sleepy entirely, for he had curled up in a seat, and was reeling off slumber at a faster rate than the train reeled off miles.

I don't borrow to play cards.

" "You do not need to borrow.

Do we say   lend   or  borrow