Lender

Examples

• I compared it with the money-lender's name and address as recorded in my pocket-book, and identified it at once as the writing of Sergeant Cuff. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• You pledged the Diamond to the money-lender in London--I am sure of it! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• OF STOCK LENT AT INTERESt. The stock which is lent at interest is always considered as a capital by the lender. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• When do we suppose, at a rough guess, that the Diamond found its way into the money-lender's hands? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The stock is at the risk of the borrower, who, as it were, insures it to the lender; and four or five per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The day of the month, recorded on a neat little card in a box on the money-lender's chimney-piece, happened to attract his eye. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• They were granted, not as the proper fund upon which the money was borrowed, but as an additional encouragement to the lender. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The uncertainty of recovering his money makes the lender exact the same usurious interest which is usually required from bankrupts. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The necessities of the state render government, upon most occasions willing to borrow upon terms extremely advantageous to the lender. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The money-lender came out from the inner regions of the bank, followed by his two guardian policemen in plain clothes. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Hooroar for the principle, as the money-lender said ven he vouldn't renew the bill,' observed Mr. Weller, who was clearing away the breakfast-things. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It is the compensation which the borrower pays to the lender, for the profit which he has an opportunity of making by the use of the money. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The rich men of the world before this time had been great landowners or money-lenders and money manipulators or merchants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Typist: Shane