Borrowed

Examples

• Traders and other undertakers may, no doubt with great propriety, carry on a very considerable part of their projects with borrowed money. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I am an impoverished wretch--the very gaberdine I wear is borrowed from Reuben of Tadcaster. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Here I borrowed a horse from my uncle, and the following day we proceeded on our journey. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I had fifteen pistoles; so he borrowed occasionally of me to subsist, while he was looking out for business. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The Greeks derived their musical instruments from the Egyptians, and the Romans borrowed theirs from the Greeks, but neither the Greeks nor the Romans invented any. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It had to go to school to Greco-Roman civilization; it also borrowed rather than evolved its culture. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• For this express reason, I had borrowed the half-guinea, that I might not be without a fund for my travelling-expenses. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• They seem to have followed, and not to have gone before, the market rate of interest, or the rate at which people of good credit usually borrowed. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• One is the increasingly reminiscent and borrowed character of culture; the other is the political and rhetorical bent of Roman life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I've raked, and scraped, and borrowed, and all but begged,--and the price of these two was needed to make up the balance, and I had to give them up. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But on Sunday after luncheon he borrowed a cutter, and drove over to Skuytercliff. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• And then you won't know me, sir; and I shall not be your Jane Eyre any longer, but an ape in a harlequin's jacket--a jay in borrowed plumes. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• This idea, then, is borrowed from, and represents some impression, which this moment appears to the senses. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It is full of inconsistencies, and though borrowed from Plato, shows but a superficial acquaintance with his writings. Plato. The Republic.
• They were borrowed from the French, as was the farce, but Livius had adapted it with some taste to the English stage. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I have certainly never borrowed any money on such an insecurity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He started a lawsuit at once to recover the sums he had expended, and judgment was given against Gutenberg, commanding that he should pay what he had borrowed, together with interest. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The philosophy of Heracleitus cannot be shown to be borrowed from Zoroaster, and still less the myths of Plato. Plato. The Republic.
• I borrowed half-a-dozen works, all carefully chosen with a view to Rachel. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• They borrowed the idea--and the words--and the construction--and the punctuation--from Grimes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I went on, however, to my destination and borrowed a dry suit from my --future--brother-in-law. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• She had seen him handle tools that he had borrowed to mend the mangle, or to knock a broken piece of furniture together, in a surprising manner. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Hardly, replied the old man grimly; unless he has borrowed the wings of Icarus, for I alone have the key of the tunnel. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I borrowed the ponderous pistols and snapped them. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In the one case, the fund was supposed sufficient to pay, within the limited time, both principal and interest of the money borrowed. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is not properly borrowed in order to be spent, but in order to replace a capital which had been spent before. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Some of the money I want has been borrowed for you. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• During the two wars which began in 1739 and in 1755, little money was borrowed, either upon annuities for terms of years, or upon those for lives. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• From them she drew her happiness, and what she borrowed, she, with interest, gave back. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He had not borrowed money in that way, for excellent reasons. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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