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    1. "This baggage is getting heavy, I was just going to throw this in the house and borrow a bathroom if I might?"


    2. If you let me borrow Barney occasionally to play with, that would be great, but it is not the be all and end all


    3. Since Herndon had long had a mistress back in Sao Luis, she fit into his life without undue bother, except for the fact that Jalloo would ask Elond if she might borrow him and they might discuss him the next day and be distressingly matter-of-fact about it with 'why don't we do it like that's?' going back and forth


    4. He told the lady that his mother had just popped next door to borrow some sugar so that she could make a cup of tea and she wouldn't be long


    5. They asked to borrow my disc man which was also in the bag


    6. I let them borrow it because they needed to learn the negative outcomes of being involved in gangs that were highlighted in my messages I had just created


    7. ’ He said thoughtfully, ‘Perhaps we could borrow a church somewhere – I’ll see if we can get All Saints


    8. friends asking if they could borrow our boat


    9. In this way each girl became more of herself and both girls became more than the sum of their parts---to borrow a metaphor from George and his rod building


    10. nations, and thou shalt not borrow

    11. Based on my freshman year experience I can really relate to homeless people and people who don't have enough money to buy food because I had no money and I didn't know anybody I could even borrow some money from to buy any food over Thanksgiving because they had all left and gone to be with their families or whatever so I was basically home alone in that dorm room


    12. People of the best credit there seldom borrow under five per cent


    13. The government there borrow at two per cent


    14. Their price necessarily rises more or less, and yields a greater profit to those who deal in them, who can, therefore, afford to borrow at a higher interest


    15. Many people must borrow, and nobody will lend without such a consideration for the use of their money as is suitable, not only to what can be made by the use of it, but to the difficulty and danger of evading the law


    16. stopped raining then,” Sam pointed to the dry cloths, ”You can borrow my old yellow raincoat up there to get home, just in case it p


    17. that would borrow o thee turn not thou


    18. Father had once managed to borrow a copy of the ancient scroll called Gilgamesh


    19. The next evening, Chloe asked to borrow my pearl necklace


    20. They complained of the contracted views and dastardly spirit of the directors of those banks, which did not, they said, extend their credits in proportion to the extension of the trade of the country ; meaning, no doubt, by the extension of that trade, the extension of their own projects beyond what they could carry on either with their own capital, or with what they had credit to borrow of private people in the usual way of bond or mortgage

    21. the poor dad, who worked hard in a job to earn and borrow money for


    22. It was the duty of the banks, they seemed to think, to lend for as long a time, and to as great an extent, as they might wish to borrow


    23. A great part of the proprietors, when they paid in their first instalment, opened a cash-account with the bank; and the directors, thinking themselves obliged to treat their own proprietors with the same liberality with which they treated all other men, allowed many of them to borrow upon this cash-account what they paid in upon


    24. They could still have made nothing by the interest of the paper, which, being over and above what the circulation of the country could absorb and employ, returned upon them in order to be exchanged for gold and silver, as fast as they issued it ; and for the payment of which they were themselves continually obliged to borrow money


    25. Those who wanted to borrow must have applied to this bank, instead of applying to the private persons who had lent it their money


    26. The credit of the new government, established by the Revolution, we may believe, must have been very low, when it was obliged to borrow at so high an interest


    27. the habit of receiving aids or to borrow money


    28. “No whatever, you borrow half an inch from me and add that to


    29. To borrow or to lend for such a purpose, therefore, is, in all cases, where gross usury is out of the question, contrary to the interest of both parties; and though it no doubt happens sometimes, that people do both the one and the other, yet, from the regard that all men have for their own interest, we may be assured, that it cannot happen so very frequently as we are sometimes apt to imagine


    30. The only people to whom stock is commonly lent, without their being expected to make any very profitable use of it, are country gentlemen, who borrow upon mortgage

    31. Even they scarce ever borrow merely to spend


    32. What they borrow, one may say, is commonly spent before they borrow it


    33. They have generally consumed so great a quantity of goods, advanced to them upon credit by shop-keepers and tradesmen, that they find it necessary to borrow at interest, in order to pay the debt


    34. Using affiliates can also borrow credibility through their reputations; as


    35. Money, like wine, must always be scarce with those who have neither wherewithal to buy it, nor credit to borrow it


    36. Sober men, whose projects have been disproportioned to their capitals, are as likely to have neither wherewithal to buy money, nor credit to borrow it, as prodigals, whose expense has been disproportioned to their revenue


    37. They run about everywhere to borrow money, and everybody tells them that they have none to lend


    38. Many people wanted it, who had neither wherewithal to buy it, nor credit to borrow it ; and because the debtors found it difficult to borrow, the creditors found it difficult to get payment


    39. They have a constant demand, therefore, for more capital than they have of their own ; and, in order to supply the deficiency of their own, they endeavour to borrow as much as they can of the mother country, to whom they are, therefore, always in debt


    40. At least it would get him out of the settlement for a few hours and it gave him an excuse to borrow one of the electric off-road buggies too

    41. convenient for government to borrow two millions at eight per cent


    42. “So they would like to borrow you for a while to have a go at him that’s if you would like the job


    43. Government, it is pretended, could borrow this capital at three per cent


    44. And the poor, sticky, stinking ape, unable to borrow a coat, had to streak down the street to retrieve them, followed by a jeering, hooting, mob of drunken mates


    45. The necessities of the state render government, upon most occasions willing to borrow upon terms extremely advantageous to the lender


    46. This annuity, no doubt, replaced to them their capital, and enabled them to carry on their trade and business to the same, or, perhaps, to a greater extent than before; that is, they were enabled, either to borrow of other people a new capital, upon the credit of this annuity or, by selling it, to get from other people a new capital of their own, equal, or superior, to that which they had advanced to government


    47. That said, however, I borrow from what he said at his trial at the Diet of Wurms


    48. "I have tools and can borrow others


    49. One overheated and bothered crow began cawing in a sweetgum tree by the lane, but all she was saying was, “Can I borrow an icepack from someone? Anyone? I’m stinkin’ hot!” (A blue jay in the next tree, a tulip poplar, rolled his eyes and replied that they were birds and therefore didn’t have icepacks


    50. Even without a vehicle to my name, it was nice to know that I could rent a car, or borrow one should the need arise














































    1. The only times she had been on this water before was when tying up in Sinbara for the first time on a local packet out of Zharvai and when she was with Jorma in a borrowed fishing skiff


    2. But how did he get hold of the gun? Henry keeps all the props locked up … Dan would have had to ask for it, borrowed the key or something


    3. Not that I borrowed that much, only a few hundred originally, for the kids holy communion, but fuckin' hell he packs on the interest and if you don't have something to give him every week his guys go mental


    4. I have borrowed his time


    5. An hour later, wearing borrowed hosen and a vullejakt that is wonderfully warm if a size too large for me, I follow Wiesse out of the building and round to the stables


    6. So Master Jeffery came up with an idea borrowed from history; he had each town send someone to learn the story


    7. If I borrowed the van again I could be at the airport in plenty of time and it was downhill most of the way


    8. By virtue of the addition of a new hub, borrowed from his place of work, Danny could attach his laptop to his domestic network in any one of the bedrooms, in the kitchen and even in the downstairs lavatory


    9. I borrowed ten thousand from my mother,


    10. borrowed the card from his trunk

    11. the beach, borrowed a mobile phone and called for an ambulance


    12. of the addition of a new hub, borrowed from his place of work,


    13. I borrowed that trick from a surveyor I once assisted


    14. George borrowed a block from each of them and demonstrated the posture and motions he expected them to use


    15. Besides their covert activities, each also, as Harry had before them, always had her face pressed in some textbook borrowed from Harry's stacks at the bungalow


    16. When they were almost home from the brief trip, and bouncing along the River Road in the borrowed chaise, George explained in an apologetic way that, “


    17. borrowed some clothes, he came back to the kitchen and took a drink from a


    18. He had studied the Baedecker and a volume of the island's history, borrowed from the hotel's small collection, over the first evening and night


    19. Meantime, while resting upon a rampart or some other commanding viewpoints around the island, Chloe and Kaitlyn read to each other from books of poetry, or from the book of histories which Harry had borrowed, not just for their entertainment, but for the sheer pleasure of broadening their horizons of knowledge


    20. Tahlmute was carrying his own cup but Kemberra just borrowed another house cup rather than walking both ways

    21. I ”borrowed" a pair of legs from a table that was broken and those legs became the legs for my poker table


    22. 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


    23. Before the late war, the government borrowed at three per cent


    24. For some time after the conclusion of the late war, not only private people of the best credit, but some of the greatest companies in London, commonly borrowed at five per cent


    25. it may be reasonable that one half of it should go to interest, wherever business is carried on with borrowed money


    26. weight lost on the voyage, thanks to constant extra helpings from Thea, the kind-hearted cook’s borrowed garment still was loose


    27. A man must be perfectly crazy, who, where there is a tolerable security, does not employ all the stock which he commands, whether it be his own, or borrowed of other people, in some one or other of those three ways


    28. These the merchants pay away to the manufacturers for goods, the manufacturers to the farmers for materials and provisions, the farmers to their landlords for rent; the landlords repay them to the merchants for the conveniencies and luxuries with which they supply them, and the merchants again return them to the banks, in order to balance their cash accounts, or to replace what they my have borrowed of them ; and thus almost the whole money business of the country is transacted by means of them


    29. When they actually come upon him, he satisfies them from his cash account with the bank, and gradually replaces the sum borrowed with the money or paper which comes in from the occasional sales of his goods


    30. Traders and other undertakers may, no doubt with great propriety, carry on a very considerable part of their projects with borrowed money

    31. Even with this precaution, too, the money which is borrowed, and which it is meant should not be repaid till after a period of several years, ought not to be borrowed of a bank, but ought to be borrowed upon bond or mortgage, of such private people as propose to live upon the interest of their money, without taking the trouble themselves to employ the capital, and who are, upon that account, willing to lend that capital to such people of good credit as are likely to keep it for several years


    32. it must have been a very fortunate speculation, of which the returns could not only repay the enormous expense at which the money was thus borrowed for carrying it on, but afford, besides, a good surplus profit to the projector


    33. they have borrowed the idea from French, but


    34. borrowed, and put every cent he had into his business (his dream)


    35. The sober and frugal debtors of private persons, on the contrary, would be more likely to employ the money borrowed in sober undertakings which were proportioned to their capitals, and which, though they might have less of the grand and the marvellous, would have more of the solid and the profitable ; which would repay with a large profit whatever had been laid out upon them, and which would thus afford a fund capable of maintaining a much greater quantity of labour than that which had been employed about them


    36. The capital borrowed replaces the capitals of those shop-keepers and tradesmen which the country gentlemen could not have replaced from the rents of their estates


    37. It is not properly borrowed in order to be spent, but in order to replace a capital which had been spent before


    38. in the pound land-tax, and what was annually borrowed of the sinking fund


    39. She borrowed Homer’s empty sack to put them in, then gave it to Miklos


    40. It was the young man with the OldGen name, the one who borrowed a cigarette from Arkaneh in the rain just a short while ago

    41. Thirdly, The mode of fishing, for which this tonnage bounty in the white herring fishery has been given (by busses or decked vessels from twenry to eighty tons burden ), seems not so well adapted to the situation of Scotland, as to that of Holland, from the practice of which country it appears to have been borrowed


    42. It amounted to more than ninety millions sterling, including not only the new debt which was contracted, but the two shillings in the pound additional land tax, and the sums which were every year borrowed from the sinking fund


    43. This sum must be borrowed upon the credit of some parliamentary fund mortgaged for paying the interest


    44. In 1773, however, their debts, instead of being reduced, were augmented by an arrear to the treasury in the payment of the four hundred thousand pounds ; by another to the custom-house for duties unpaid; by a large debt to the bank, for money borrowed; and by a fourth, for bills drawn upon them from India, and wantonly accepted, to the amount of upwards of twelve hundred thousand pounds


    45. Torbin was struck by the sense he was on borrowed time, time that was not rightfully his


    46. He could afford less interest for whatever stock he borrowed, and the whole weight of the tax would, in this case, fall ultimately upon the interest of money


    47. and Ronnie had borrowed for the moment


    48. Stamp duties, and duties upon the registration of bonds and contracts for borrowed money, fall altogether upon the borrower, and, in fact, are always paid by him


    49. of the panel to be connected, and certainly hadn't intended it to display pictures borrowed from a


    50. Meanwhile some of our Officers borrowed shotguns and went duck hunting on the rivers they had some of our lads acting as beaters and retrievers gathering any ducks that had been shot














































    1. No more borrowing space in Great-uncle's bags!”


    2. Going by air would cut the time even more but borrowing a floater and pilot again would cost more than the price of the house


    3. On the contrary, the whole expense of this borrowing, of employing agents to look out for people who had money to lend, of negotiating with those people, and of drawing the proper bond or assignment, must have fallen upon them, and have been so much clear loss upon the balance of their accounts


    4. “Great, man,” I told him borrowing his ‘man’


    5. The demand comes before the returns, and they have nothing at hand with which they can either purchase money or give solid security for borrowing


    6. It is not any scarcity of gold and silver, but the difficulty which such people find in borrowing, and which their creditor find in getting payment, that occasions the general complaint of the scarcity of money


    7. The most common way in which the colonies contract this debt, is not by borrowing upon bond of the rich people of the mother country, though they sometimes do this too, but by running as much in arrear to their correspondents, who supply them with goods from Europe, as those correspondents will allow them


    8. The company is prohibited from trading in their corporate capacity, or upon a joint stock ; from borrowing money upon common seal, or from laying any restraints upon the trade, which may be carried on freely from all places, and by all persons being British subjects, and paying the fine


    9. In this exigency, government can have no other resource but in borrowing


    10. The same commercial state of society which, by the operation of moral causes, brings government in this manner into the necessity of borrowing, produces in the subjects both an ability and an inclination to lend

    11. If it commonly brings along with it the necessity of borrowing, it likewise brings with it the facility of doing so


    12. It foresees the facility of borrowing, and therefore dispenses itself from the duty of saving


    13. The sovereign feels that he must provide for such exigencies by saving, because he foresees the absolute impossibility of borrowing


    14. In Great Britain, the annual land and malt taxes are regularly anticipated every year, by virtue of a borrowing clause constantly inserted into the acts which impose them


    15. Like an improvident spendthrift, whose pressing occasions will not allow him to wait for the regular payment of his revenue, the state is in the constant practice of borrowing of its own factors and agents, and of paying interest for the use of its own money


    16. Besides those two methods of borrowing, by anticipations and by a perpetual funding, there are two other methods, which hold a sort of middle place between them ; these are, that of borrowing upon annuities for terms of years, and that of borrowing upon annuities for lives


    17. In 1695, an act was passed for borrowing one million upon an annuity of fourteen per cent


    18. In 1691, an act was passed for borrowing a million upon annuities for lives, upon terms which, in the present times, would appear very


    19. In the following year, the deficiency was made good, by borrowing upon annuities for lives, at fourteen per cent


    20. An annuity for ninety-eight or ninety-nine years, however, is worth nearly as much as a perpetuity, and should therefore, one might think, be a fund for borrowing nearly as much

    21. It is not the different degrees of anxiety in the two governments of France and England for the liberation of the public revenue, which occasions this difference in their respective modes of borrowing ; it arises altogether from the different views and interests of the lenders


    22. The facility of borrowing delivers them from the embarrassment which this fear and inability would otherwise occasion


    23. By means of borrowing, they are enabled, with a very moderate increase of taxes, to raise, from year to year, money sufficient for carrying on the war; and by the practice of perpetual funding, they are enabled, with the smallest possible increase of taxes, to raise annually the largest possible sum of money


    24. It took talking the seller down in price and borrowing money from my mother, but we finally had a place to move into, and the kids and cats had room to roam and play


    25. In practical terms he always commits resources with money he does not have and do that by borrowing against the contract


    26. (It appeared to be a borrowing from a list of imperial titles


    27. Overall the interest charged on Janet and John’s borrowing


    28. In addition the total cost of their borrowing has reduced


    29. Another way is by having JV partners who customers associate you with, so you're borrowing


    30. I paid the money I was going to use for some books and had to spend that quarter borrowing the books I needed from the library

    31. Borrowing from the scientific perspective, one could further argue that the supposedly white


    32. Even Jesus told a parable involving lending and borrowing (Luke


    33. Prospective students who are considering borrowing funds for the degree should do their homework before committing to any loan program


    34. However, he explained that the Israeli Banks circumvent earning interest on the lending of money or borrowing funds by calling the higher repayment a “late payment


    35. Subservience to the state is anything but free, but the word liberal has a positive connotation, which leads to the borrowing of the word and its dishonest application by those who would mislead unknowing but sincere people


    36. I decided it was a good time to call Malik about borrowing the money


    37. He was borrowing Kyle’s Uzi


    38. This plan of borrowing a suitable body is always adopted by the Great Ones


    39. They may tell themselves they are only borrowing the money, not


    40. Some of the most common defenses in theft cases reflect this challenge, as a defendant may claim that they thought certain property was theirs or that they were just borrowing it

    41. He's only borrowing it for awhile


    42. CARDS SHOULD BE USED ONLY AS THE CASH-MANAGEMENT TOOL THAT THEY ARE AND NOT AS A BORROWING


    43. OF THE ABOVE, THEN CONSIDER BORROWING


    44. Your ability to attract outside money – either through borrowing or investment – is enhanced


    45. Sometimes (as in the case of the property market) it is difficult to tell whether the borrowing is constructive or destructive and this is where risk comes in


    46. or not by the practical expediency of Patrick borrowing a


    47. They days of borrowing money easily and running up credit cards beyond your limits are gone


    48. While we’ve heard rhetoric about a smaller government and less debt, we continue in the self destructive mode of borrowing money to wage war and sacrifice our children to keep foreign markets under harsh US influence


    49. Now we will go into some of the other options you have for borrowing money when it is for your business


    50. Leasing companies will allow you to rent the assets you need as opposed to borrowing the money to rent them













































    1. Whoever has a credit of this kind with one of those companies, and borrows a thousand pounds upon it, for example, may repay this sum piece-meal, by twenty and thirty pounds at a time, the company discounting a proportionable part of the interest of the great sum, from the day on which each of those small sums is paid in, till the whole be in this manner repaid


    2. borrows something from western civilization


    3. The man who borrows in order to spend will soon be ruined, and he who lends to him will generally have occasion to repent of his folly


    4. 21 The wicked borrows, and repays not again, but the righteous shows mercy, and gives


    5. The broker then borrows the stock from one of their other clients or themselves


    6. Notice that the federal government borrows about $1


    7. The client borrows money that is paid out of his building account at the bank to a builder to have his house built


    8. So when someone borrows my car And they plan to take it far You can take it with certainty That my Yoga will have more intensity And I’d like


    9. Over 7 years Don borrows $560,000 from the policy


    10. Here the policy holder borrows $80,000 a year for each of the 7 years

    11. Plus, he borrows against his policy and achieves a 10% return per year, in outside investments, (in his bucket B)


    12. A friend borrows money from you for the third


    13. Then the Yogi destroys this blank mind also by identifying himself with the Supreme Purusha or Soul or Being from whom the mind borrows its light


    14. • If she borrows money for the necessities of her life,


    15. • If she borrows for the necessaries of her house hold,


    16. In a loan, the borrower initially receives or borrows an amount of money, called


    17. A French word, used as a substantive and as anadjective both in French and in Spanish, which borrows the


    18. When the bride to be borrows something from a happily married woman the symbolic meaning is that similar happiness will come to the bride


    19. To obtain the money it wants, the government borrows from outside powers


    20. And what was it only one of the smutty yankee pictures Terry borrows off of Corny Kelleher

    21. When more bidders began to show up at the RTC auctions, he shifted his focus toward buying single pieces of real estate from banks and insurance companies that wanted to get rid of the properties they had ended up with from defaulted borrows


    22. I have to admit that my feelings are bruised, for the whole concept borrows quite a bit from my universal machine without giving me any credit


    23. Consider a trader who borrows 900 shares of stock from a brokerage firm in order to sell the stock short at a price of $68 per share


    24. A firm that borrows funds at a variable interest rate has a short interest-rate position—falling interest rates will reduce its cost of borrowing, while rising interest rates will increase its costs


    25. A trader who borrows margin money at one rate will almost certainly receive a lower rate when he deposits this money with the clearinghouse


    26. How about munis? When a state, city, or county needs to raise funds for a big public works project (sewer systems, hospitals, mass transit), it borrows money by issuing a bond


    27. Ney borrows a horse, leaps upon it, and without hat, cravat, or sword, places himself across the Brussels road, stopping both English and French


    28. ‘And then the boyfriend runs off with someone and this one just borrows his rope and walks up on the cliff,’ said Latting


    29. In the latter, an investor borrows money from the brokerage to purchase more shares of stock


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    Synonyms for "borrow"

    borrow adopt take over take up assume appropriate obtain the use of obtain

    "borrow" definitions

    get temporarily


    take up and practice as one's own