Exorbitant interest charge

Usage examples of usury.

It was regular usury, but the Morphi came from a Greek race, and was above prejudices.

The afternoon he devotes to usury, bankrupting, here, a small tradesman, there, a weeping widow, for fun and profit.

To take thought, not where your benefit will be best bestowed, but where it may be most profitably placed at interest, from whence you will most easily get it back, is not bestowal of benefits, but usury.

Heraclius was first displayed in daring to borrow the consecrated wealth of churches, under the solemn vow of restoring, with usury, whatever he had been compelled to employ in the service of religion and the empire.

Reuben Maliki, keeper of the poor-box--were seized and cast into the Kasbah for gross and base usury.

I have the respect of my workfellows, the love of my dear ones, plenty to eat and drink, and money at usury with my banker.

The main grip of these minor caciques lies in their practice of money-lending at usury, which makes them masters of the lives, including the votes, of the people.

Whether the Utopian company will be allowed to prefer this class of share to that or to issue debentures, whether indeed usury, that is to say lending money at fixed rates of interest, will be permitted at all in Utopia, one may venture to doubt.

Usury is the curse of the Islands, and very few are the Filipino fortunes that do not stand upon that base.

It was regular usury, but the Morphi came from a Greek race, and was above prejudices.

For though a holy bishop thinks that agriculture will derive great advantages from the "enlightened" usurers who are to purchase the church confiscations, I, who am not a good but an old farmer, with great humility beg leave to tell his late lordship that usury is not a tutor of agriculture.

Enriched by three bankruptcies, by continual thefts, by usury, the gold he acquired promptly seemed to disappear.

He reduced multiple benefices, raised the educational standards for priests, took stern measures against usury, simony, and clerical concubinage, forbade the wearing of pointed shoes in the Curia, and did not endear himself to the College of Cardinals.

Pope Boniface in Rome took cuts from usury and sold benefices to the point of scandal, some­times re-selling the same office to a higher bidder and dating the second appointment previous to the first.

By combining her earnings from a week of completed sitting for eight additional paying children with a week of advance payments for eleven and the contributions from Jeff, Hans, Eddie, Jimmy, and Larry, she had paid for the teethwithout usury.