Kind of library

Usage examples of lending.

Some bibliomaniacs would sooner give away a book than suffer the anxiety of lending it.

Afton Carberry, the fellow who made millions lending money in South America and Europe?

In their stately setting of cryptomeria, few of which are less than 20 feet in girth at 3 feet from the ground, they take one prisoner by their beauty, in defiance of all rules of western art, and compel one to acknowledge the beauty of forms and combinations of colour hitherto unknown, and that lacquered wood is capable of lending itself to the expression of a very high idea in art.

The bay doors were currently open, the faint blue glow of the force field that kept the atmosphere in lending an eerie cyanic glow to the parked vehicles.

So I asked the Dawk if he would mind lending him to this project of yours.

Even in your own parish you have Chasehope lending a hand and riding the hills like a moss-trooper--the very man you would delate for sin.

Robbie was making this up as he went, lying with his customary eclat, but by painting a bleak picture of the consequences to the family, Robbie was lending an element of humane justification to the misconduct he was requesting.

She had heard that I was at Naples, and wanted me to help her, not as the Marquis della Petina wished, by lending him money, but by employing my influence with the Duchess of Kingston to make that lady take her to England with her in her service.

I wanted to make him see that the objection he made to having the stone taken out was an insuperable obstacle to my lending him the money.

Street lamps had been wrapped in colorful paper covers, bathing the ground in a soft glow, lending a gaiety to the scene that put in stark contrast the dark mood Kaspar and Kenner felt.

Then past the rockery where the garden widened to the lawn, unkempt and lost looking but lending coolness and softness to the weathered brick.

But Seg had made a few artistic adjustments to the original, lending a whole new aspect to the tape.

Before him, the far side sloped gradually down, lending the entire ridge the appearance of a titanic shoulder-blade.

Each stone that goes towards the uprearing of this visible fane, each human soul that does its part in building the invisible temple of our national faith, is bearing witness to, and lending its support to, that which is either the truth of truths, or the baseless fabric of a dream.

He had begun life as an obscure financier by lending small sums of money to workmen at usurious interest.