Jane Eyre vocabulary

"Yes, he's boasting like a drunkard," added Nastasia, as though with the sole intention of goading him.

"I do not boast! You shall have a hundred thousand, this very day. Ptitsin, get the money, you gay usurer! Take what you like for it, but get it by the evening! I'll show that I'm in earnest!" cried Rogojin, working himself up into a frenzy of excitement.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Idiot (1887)

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“Now, King Ahasuerus! What do I want with half your estate? Do you think I am a Jew-usurer, seeking good investment in land? I would much rather have all your confidence. You will not exclude me from your confidence if you admit me to your heart?”

Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)

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“Ignatius, I’m gonna have to go by the Homestead tomorrow.”

“We shall not deal with those usurers, Mother.”

John Kennedy Toole. A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)