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Or consider the attitude of the Church in the matter of usury.
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This was popular with the public because of the abuses of usury.
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The word usury was very odious to the Christian mind and conscience.
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Thou art become a man of substance; and hast moneys at usury.
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The one wrote a Jeremiad about usury, and was called Jeremy Bentham.
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Big gambling layouts know within minutes if a table is not making its vigorish.
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Once in a while it gives you a little more vigorish than the other guy has, that's all.
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That's its vigorish-itspercentage.
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That slim advantage, which is known as the vigorish, or the vig, is all the bookie has going for him... .
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One word from Johnny about an executive with vigorish problems was all that was needed for the gang to offer their lending services.
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Of course, I could have let the table's six per cent vigorish take it away from me, but that would have taken longer.
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"But you had enough vigorish to catch them," she pointed out.