Which preposition to use with usury
the wished day is come at last, That shall for all the paynes and sorrowes past Pay to her usury of long delight:
How, in God's name, is a farmer to live if he has to pay usury for every plough and spade and yard of dimity!"
Debtors, hard pressed by their creditors, invoked obsolete penalties against usury in their defence, and the creditors, because the praetor Asellio attempted to submit the question to trial, murdered him in the open Forum.
"The Jews are strictly forbidden by their law, to exercise usury among one another.
In Genoa she found Salvatti again, now "retired," and living on usury from his savings.
And you will not fight usury by hanging Rothschilds, for usury is worst where that sort of thing is resorted to.
i, 542) which, however, stigmatizes usury as sinful.
And now, when young Halhed went to Oxford, and young Sheridan to join his family at Bath, they continued these ambitious projects for a time, and laid out their fancy at full usury over many a work destined never to see the fingers of the printer's devil.
But it is natural to imagine, that a race, exposed to such insults and indignities, both from king and people, and who had so uncertain an enjoyment of their riches, would carry usury to the utmost extremity, and by their great profits make themselves some compensation for their continual perils.
"The Jews are strictly forbidden by their law to exercise usury towards one an other.
Thou shalt settle the usury with thine own conscience.