1. Malynes was impressed with effects of usurers on the poorer classes. 2. Some say the Jews were expelled because they were usurers . 3. Their efforts are challenged by a northern usurer and devious northern capitalists. 4. She turns to the usurer Jean-Esther van Gobseck for financial assistance. 5. Dampit and Gulf ( two usurers ) enter. 6. But who except usurers _ aka investment bankers _ can afford to collect contemporary art? 7. But the 57-year-old Diaz doesn't consider Grape a usurer . 8. In the subplot, Playfair is in love with the niece of Hornet the usurer . 9. In 1214 an important council was held in Bordeaux against usurers , highwaymen, and heretics. 10. Slightall mortgages his lands to an Usurer to gain funds to waste on self-indulgence.