Sentences with phrase «usurer fagin»

These are they who are ineligible (as witnesses): a dice - player, a usurer, pigeon - flyers, traffickers in Seventh Year produce, and slaves.

A young Alec Guinness did a remarkable job of playing the grasping East End criminal and usurer Fagin, who assembles a small army of child pickpockets.

The one conditions the other, just as usurer and squanderer condition each other.29

In fact, the Christian merchant is more of a Pharisee in his self - assured moral and spiritual superiority than is the Jewish usurer, and this ironic tension adds bite to the gaiety of this romantic comedy.

Shakespeare not only provides the Jewish usurer with a name, but also with a daughter who elopes with a Christian, as well as with a history of hostility and abuse from the Christian merchant Antonio.

One day the usurer proposed a vile bargain: he would cancel the debt if the merchant gave him his young and beautiful daughter instead.

Of these the worst were: dice player, usurer, pigeon flyer, trafficker in seventh - year produce (Sanh.

The Lord himself comes forward (in the form of the poor person) to ask you for a loan, he who forbade you to be a usurer.

Tell that to the usurers he beat into the streets with a bull whip.

As Wendell Berry says, «Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone.

If you don't like usury, don't borrow from usurers.