usurer's

Kick out the usurers who parasitically feed on the ill and suffering masses, who are bled to death for the usurer's wicked gain.

The Bane of Health Insurance 2008

Fear made their hearts beat faster still, compounding their fatigue like interest on a usurer's loan.

Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

My father rushed forward to his picture as though to verify for himself this offensive remark and perceived with horror that he had bestowed the usurer's eyes upon nearly all the figures.

Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

They agreed upon a time and price; and the next day my father took palette and brushes and went to the usurer's house.

Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

He almost killed my mother, he drove the children away, broke his brushes and easels, tore down the usurer's portrait from the wall, demanded a knife, and ordered a fire to be built in the chimney, intending to cut it in pieces and burn it.

Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

He grew seriously pensive, fell into hypochondria, and finally became fully convinced that his brush had served as a tool of the Devil, and that a portion of the usurer's vitality had actually passed into the portrait, and was now troubling people, inspiring diabolical excitement, beguiling painters from the true path, producing the fearful torments of envy, and so forth.

Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

Nor is it the usurer's acceptance of usury that pleases him, but his lending, which is good.

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

Reply Obj. 1: He who borrows for usury does not consent to the usurer's sin but makes use of it.

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

This is the usurer's reason, and were it not for this time would lose its importance as an element; it is certain that long time loans would not be so attractive.

Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View Calvin Elliott

For several days it remained in the same position, no one caring to touch it; but at the end of that time, having grown accustomed to its presence, and gradually less and less in awe of it, they lodged it in the coach-house; and so, after a considerable time, the old usurer's instincts prevailed, and he resolved to make trial of the vehicle, with

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various