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How to use usurer in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word usurer? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
The usurer will go on hanging the cozener as long as we have a society based, in part, on usury.
In this case, the gift could not be purchased licitly by another, naturally, for the unforced buyer would surely be a usurer.
The latter kills an old usurer and her sister with an axe, and comes into contact with the Detective later.
The action centres on the Malavoglia family, who borrow money from the local usurer against unreceived goods they expect to resell.
Himself a usurer, Shakespeare must have known how much he had invested in Shylock.
If you lend money to any of my people, to any poor man among you, you must not play the usurer with him: you must not demand interest from him.
Torquemada, fictional character, a miserly pawnbroker and usurer in a series of novels by Benito Pérez Galdós.
Britain has once again re-established her role as world usurer.
But if we create a state bank financed with public resources that does not charge interest, then the usurer will be forced to lower their rates or they will lose their clientele.
He read George Santayana and The Law of Civilization and Decay by Brooks Adams, finding confirmation of the danger of the capitalist and usurer becoming dominant.
Examples from Classical Literature
We have already stated that Fardorougha was not only an extortioner, but a usurer.
This is the sin of the usurer, the bodger, and the tyrannous landlord, and of this bad trinity the last is the worst.
Appeal to the higher powers if you dare, and I'll make you repent it, you usurer!
He had been plundered by every usurer in the Levant, and in turn had taken them in.
I thought perhaps there was some usurer, whom you had heard of, who could let me have the money.
Interest paid could be reclaimed, not only from the usurer but from his heirs.
The voluntary sacrifice of others to the usurer does not make his gains just.
If I were a usurer I could not put out money to a better advantage.
A mere hint of encouragement to the usurer came from Calvin.
He was a usurer, though he could be very liberal when his policy demanded.
They suffered not an usurer to be witnesse in matters of Law.
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