usances

Linking themselves in marriage, and yet continuing their usances in

The Decameron 2004

Moreover he kissed the hem of his sleeve and welcomed him, [666] saying, "O my Lady Fatimeh, I beseech thee do me a kindness, since I know thy usances in the matter of the healing of pains, for that there hath betided me a sore pain in my head."

Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp John Payne 1879

Neither yet is this insatiable Jew satisfied or settled with: he had papers against us of 'small debts fourteen years old;' his modest claim amounts finally to 'Twelve hundred pounds besides interest;' -- and one hopes he never got satisfied in this world; one almost hopes he was one of those beleaguered Jews who hanged themselves in York Castle shortly afterwards, and had his usances and quittances and horseleech papers summarily set fire to!

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

Neither yet is this insatiable Jew satisfied or settled with: he had papers against us of 'small debts fourteen years old;' his modest claim amounts finally to 'Twelve hundred pounds besides interest;' -- and one hopes he never got satisfied in this world; one almost hopes he was one of those beleaguered Jews who hanged themselves in York Castle shortly afterwards, and had his usances and quittances and horseleech papers summarily set fire to!

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

Kelly's note on this proverb is not favourable to the court usances of his time (1721).

The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

Farmers-General oblige themselves to pay the value thereof in cash, or bills on their Receiver General, at three usances as customary.

The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. I Jared Sparks 1827

Besides these reasons, travel is in my opinion a very profitable exercise; the soul is there continually employed in observing new and unknown things, and I do not know, as I have often said a better school wherein to model life than by incessantly exposing to it the diversity of so many other lives, fancies, and usances, and by making it relish a perpetual variety of forms of human nature.

The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562

Besides these reasons, travel is in my opinion a very profitable exercise; the soul is there continually employed in observing new and unknown things, and I do not know, as I have often said a better school wherein to model life than by incessantly exposing to it the diversity of so many other lives, fancies, and usances, and by making it relish a perpetual variety of forms of human nature.

The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 17 Michel de Montaigne 1562

You must know, then, that there were in our city, of times past, many goodly and commendable usances, whereof none is left there nowadays, thanks to the avarice that hath waxed therein with wealth and hath banished them all.

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

Now you must know that I am a friar and am therefore well acquainted with all their usances; and if I speak somewhat at large of them for your profit, it is not forbidden me, as it were to another; nay, and it pleaseth me to speak of them, so you may henceforward know them better than you appear to have done in the past.

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344