Everything in it, tolerable or intolerable, will have but one use; and that use what our ancestors used to call usance or usury.    From Wordnik.com.  [Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays] Reference

Yet this bounty the while, these gifts ancestral of usance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference

    Yet this bounty the while, these gifts ancestral of usance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems and Fragments] Reference

When the steed recovered, bold Siegfried took on a frightful usance in the fray.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nibelungenlied] Reference

Of usance for my moneys, and you’ll not hear me: 124.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act I. Scene III. The Merchant of Venice] Reference

The lady, as her usance had been in the past, did not as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference

Let your foul usance eat away the substance of the poor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lays of Ancient Rome] Reference

That bread cast upon the waters -- "'dough' put out at usance," as Joseph.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography] Reference

I would have thee lend me at that same usance whereat thou art wont to lend me other monies. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference

And two usance is two months; reckoning not from the acceptance of the bill, but from the date of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.)] Reference

usance payable at Florence or Leghorn, is two months; but from thence payable at London, usance is three months.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.)] Reference

London and Hamburgh is two months, Venice is three months; and double usance, or two usance, is double that time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.)] Reference

Be warned that unless the 8 shillings and the usance thereof be forthcoming, the town-crier shall notify the sale of the sundry articles named.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare's Insomnia, and the Causes Thereof] Reference

Dealing thus and lodging in the house of two Florentines, brothers, who there lent at usance and who entertained him with great honour for the love of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference

He vindictively, however, raised his customary "rate of usance," and swore in his own hardened heart that the needy borrowers of Delhi should recoup him fully before a year.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story] Reference

Germans; and for that he was a very punctual repayer of such loans as were made him, he might always find many merchants ready to lend him any quantity of money at little usance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference

For usance bills (comprising usance period of export bills, transit period as specified by FEDAI and grace period wherever applicable) for up to six months from the date of shipment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Domain-b Brand Dossier] Reference

This man, then, having, after the usance of merchants, laid his plans, bought a great ship and freighting it all of his own monies with divers merchandise, repaired therewith to Cyprus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference

Now it was the usance in that house that neither wine nor bread nor aught else of meat or drink should ever be set on the tables, except the Abbot were first came to sit at his own table.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference

Being lodged in the house of two Florentine brethren, that living on their monies usance; and (for Mounsieur.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron] Reference

Siegfried took on a frightful usance in the fray.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nibelungenlied] Reference

"I know him," the king said, "and have bought many rare articles of his handiwork, and more than once when I have needed it have had monies from him on usance.    From Wordnik.com.  [At Agincourt] Reference

For its usance I send.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare's Insomnia, and the Causes Thereof] Reference

After the real olde usance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins] Reference

For evere kepten thilke usance 140.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins] Reference

The rate of usance here with us in Venice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Canadian Elocutionist] Reference

They have suffered this to become usance also.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

Ask usance, since 'tis Thou that sendest rains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jewish Literature and Other Essays] Reference

Lombard, 180 nobles sterling, payable at usance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medieval People] Reference

Of usance for my moneys, and you'll not hear me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Merchant of Venice] Reference

It is not yet happened it is at usance.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4] Reference

The rate of usance here with us in Venice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Concurring Opinions] Reference