Do we say lend or loan

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.

loan 1193 occurrences

They tell us of a loan that the new Confederacy designs to contract!

Unless it be transformed into a forced loan, I have little faith in its chance.

They do not know that the finances of the country are prosperous, and that Mr. Chase, the Secretary of the Treasury, has just negotiated, under favorable conditions, the last part of his loan.

Lending N. lending &c v.; loan, advance, accommodation, feneration^; mortgage, second mortgage, home loan &c (security) 771; investment; note, bond, commercial paper.

Lending N. lending &c v.; loan, advance, accommodation, feneration^; mortgage, second mortgage, home loan &c (security) 771; investment; note, bond, commercial paper.

[Fr.], pawnshop, my uncle's. lender, pawnbroker, money lender; usurer, loan shark.

V. lend, advance, accommodate with; lend on security; loan; pawn &c (security) 771. intrust, invest; place out to interest, put out to interest.

in advance; on loan, on security. 788.

They succeeded in carrying that part of it which consolidated the bishoprics, and in inducing the House of Commons to grant, first as a loan, which was originally turned into a gift, a million of money to be divided among the incumbents of the different parishes, who were reduced to the greatest distress by the inability to procure payment of their tithes, the arrears of which amounted to a far larger sum.

Suppose you loan a book to a friend, would you not consider it his imperative duty to take the best of care of it, as though it were his own, and return it in as good condition as it was when taken?

He took off an extortionate discount for a very short loan.

He could not force himself to ask for a loan outright, and Hayes had been strangely dull about his cautious hints.

"When he made the loan he knew you were a bank-clerk and had no money.

" He took out his cheque book, and then stopped, and Osborn asked: "Is this a free loan, Alan?

I understand a man from London will bring you a document about a loan.

I am sorry I find it impossible to renew the loan.

She was talking with him about getting a loan from her brother-in-law.

" "No, mother, I don't wish to accept money from any one, either as a gift or a loan.

To the world at large I shall say nothing of the second loan; and I know you will oblige me by treating this money as the product of realizations in the ordinary course of business.

In this matter I must say his Excellency behaved to me with scrupulous consideration; not a word passed his lips about the second loan, about that unlucky cable, or any other dealings with the money.

The bank relieved him in response to his urgent petitions, and they've sent us out a young Puritan, to whom it would be quite in vain to apply for a timely little loan.

'Ah, well spoke she, the wise one, the gray-eyed Pallas Athene, Known to Immortals alone are the prizes which lie for the heroes Ready prepared at their feet; for requiring a little, the rulers Pay back the loan tenfold to the man who, careless of pleasure, Thirsting for honour and toil, fares forth on a perilous errand Led by the guiding of gods, and strong in the strength of Immortals.

What even can the Honourable House, who when the Speaker has pronounced the well-known, wished-for sounds "That this house do now adjourn," retire, after voting a royal crusade or a loan of millions, to lie on down, and feed on plate in spacious palaces, know of what passes in the hearts of wretches in garrets and night-cellars, petty pilferers and marauders, who cut throats and pick pockets with their own hands?

Yet he almost exactly answers to the African Nyankupon, who is explained away as a 'loan-god.'

For the belief in relatively pure creative beings, whether they are morally adored, without sacrifice, or merely neglected, is so widely diffused, that Anthropology must ignore them, or account for them as 'loan-gods'or give up her theory!

Do we say   lend   or  loan