tokos

Canon Bright (On the Canons, etc., p. 56) remarks: "It must be remembered that interest, called tokos and fenus, as the product of the principal, was associated in the early stages of society, -- in Greece and Rome as well as in Palestine, -- with the notion of undue profit extorted by a rich lender from the needy borrower (see

NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

In my area there is a wonderful Turkish supermarket as well as several “tokos” Asian supermarkets.

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We achieve this, in a famous phrase, by “giving birth in beauty (tokos en kalô)” (206b7-8, e5).

Plato on Friendship and Eros Reeve, C. D. C. 2007

Taiping is in an early stage of progress, and the open _tokos_ in waringen-shaded streets, show nothing but the necessaries of life, with terrible mementos of Birmingham in petroleum lamps, hideous oleographs, and machine-made household goods.

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

The streets of Djokjacarta, and the surrounding roads, consist of shady avenues, where open _tokos_ (the native shops) vary the monotony of Dutch villas, their white colonnades and porticos gleaming against the background of stately trees, and rising from a mass of tropical vegetation.

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

Towards noon a breeze springs up, and exploration of the long line of _tokos_ beyond the wharves is simplified by the spreading eaves of palm-leaf thatch.

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

A wooden bridge crosses the river at the narrow end of the funnel-shaped harbour, connecting it with the town in the steaming valley, the usual medley of open _tokos_ and _atap_ huts, supplemented by two dubious hotels, a green _aloon-aloon_, and a few stone houses denoting the presence of the European element.

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

In the umber shadows of dusky _tokos_, gold-beaters fashion those red-gold ornaments rich in barbaric beauty, for which

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

The dragon-carved eaves of the Chinese quarter, the open _tokos_ beneath waringen boughs, the shadowy _passer_ brightened by mounds of richly-coloured fruits, and the stuccoed palaces of Court dignitaries, framed in dark foliage, give character and interest to the city, where the life of the past lingers in a series of street pictures remaining from bygone days of pomp and show.

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

Basil evidently has no more idea that the heos hou of Matt.i. 25, implies anything as to events subsequent to the tokos than the author of 2 Sam. had when he said that Michal had no child till (LXX. heos) the day of her death, or St. Paul had that

NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895