Word: borrower
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Chinese of Europe,' yet our education offers the closest possible analogue to that which reigus in the Celestial Empire, and for centuries we have continued, and are continuing, a system to which (so far as I know) no other civilized nation attaches any importance, yet which leaves us to borrow our scholarship second-hand from them; which is now necessary for the very highest classical honors at the University of Cambridge alone; in which only one has a partial glimmering of success for lumdreds and hundreds who inevitable fail; and in which the few exceptional successes are so flagrantly useless...
They are taking photographs in Paris that actually wink. This leads to the hope that they will eventually produce them in such a manner that they will go out in an emergency and borrow five dollars...
...publish this morning a communication from "'84," in which he takes the ground that the Dining Association is paying an exorbitant rate of interest for money loaned it by the corporation. It is undoubtedly true that almost any one who is "good" can borrow any amount of money at about four per cent., and only a short time ago we saw a note given for $10,000, on which interest was paid at the rate of three and one-half per cent. Now, why does the Dining Association have to pay seven per cent.? Is the association...
...moment we were informed by the medium that the spirit of the only Conners was present with a bull pup, and wished to borrow money enough to buy a little coal. Being always willing to assist the worthy poor, I passed up a counterfeit quarter which I had received at Sever's, and which I had been unable to get anybody, even an editor of one of the College papers, to take...
...Jimmie always took Apollinaris Water in the morning. Charlie preferred a "bracer." Jimmie believed in the proverb, "Spare the rod and spoil the child;" Charlie didn't. Jimmie thought it the best policy always to borrow, never to lend; so did Charlie. To sum up, their characters were similar in many respects and very different in others; it has often fitly been said of them that they were "clinky and didn't congeal...