Usurers

Florence, Museo Stibbert 'The Usurers' circa 1540, by Marinus van Reymerswaele The very existence of this museum—and one might almost say the rest of the city in which it sits—is testament to the role of the financial industry in bringing these works of art into being.

For the Love of Money Andrew McKie 2011

Galleria degli Uffizi Gentile da Fabriano 'Adoration of the Magi' 1423–24 Two of Marinus van Reymerswaele's pictures in this exhibition—"The Usurers" and "The Moneychanger and his Wife"—might almost be cartoons.

For the Love of Money Andrew McKie 2011

“Usurers and speculators are an abomination,” urged a gaunt, balding man in a dark coat.

The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

“Usurers and speculators are an abomination,” urged a gaunt, balding man in a dark coat.

The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

“Usurers and speculators are an abomination,” urged a gaunt, balding man in a dark coat.

The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

"Investors" aka "Usurers" around the world have been duped to the tune of $50+ billion, give or take a trillion or so.

Crocodile Tears for Madoff's Mullets 2009

Aside from a multiplicity of articles, Chesterton's social thought is chiefly contained in three books, What's Wrong With the World (1910), Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays (1917), both written before he became a Catholic, and The Outline of Sanity (1926), none of them overlong in pages, but all rich in contents.2

G.K. Chesterton and Heinrich Pesch 2008

Usurers, who followed neither nature nor art, also share company in the Seventh Level.

Violent Heretics Unite! « Lab Kat 2005

Father, I would not have you to imagine, because you see me lodged heere in the house of two Usurers, that therefore I am of any such disposition.

The Decameron 2004

Usurers were the open representatives of flagrant covetousness in all the ages.

Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View Calvin Elliott