The umbles, with skin, head, chine, and shoulders of the deer, were the keepers' share in the brittling. There was a receipt for "umble pie" in the old cookery. To "eat humble pie" was to dine with the servants instead of from the haunch at the high table. Okerer: usurer. Pace: pass. Pay: satisfaction. The old sense of the word in the phrase "it does not pay"--does not give satisfaction. A man could be served "to his pay," meaning in a way that satisfied or pleased him.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
"The earlier speculations of the firm of Cerizet and Claparon were, however, well planned. The two scamps joined forces with Barbet, Chaboisseau, Samanon, and usurers of that stamp, and bought up hopelessly bad debts.英文原著 · 《A Man of Business》
ANTONY. Are they noble? Methinks thou shouldst not bring them else; yet he Is full of deep dissembling; knows no honour Divided from his interest. Fate mistook him; For nature meant him for an usurer: He's fit indeed to buy, not conquer kingdoms.英文原著 · 《All For Love》
And since the usurer takes another way,
Nature herself and in her follower
Disdains he, for elsewhere he puts his hope.英文原著 · 《Inferno》
It is quite otherwise with Comedy, which should be mere common life, and not one jot bigger. Every character should speak upon the stage, not only what it would utter in the situation there represented, but in the same manner in which it would express it. For which reason I cannot allow rhymes in comedy, unless they were put into the mouth, and came out of the mouth of a mad poet. But it is impossible to deceive one's self enough (nor is it the least necessary in comedy) to suppose a dull rogue of an usurer cheating, or 'gross Jean' blundering in the finest rhymes in the world.英文原著 · 《Letters to His Son, 1752》
Porportuk was content to plod and accumulate. Klakee-Nah went back to his large house and proceeded to spend. Porportuk was known as the richest Indian in Alaska. Klakee-Nah was known as the whitest. Porportuk was a money-lender and a usurer. Klakee-Nah was an anachronism--a mediaeval ruin, a fighter and a feaster, happy with wine and song. El-Soo adapted herself to the large house and its ways as readily as she had adapted herself to Holy Cross Mission and its ways. She did not try to reform her father and direct his footsteps toward God.英文原著 · 《Lost Face》