The moneylender, who was old and ugly, fancied the farmer's beautiful daughter.
As they talked, the moneylender bent over to pick up two pebbles.
Your profession was that of a banker , usurer , moneylender or judge.
When a medieval moneylender could not pay his debts, his bench was broken in two, sometimes over his head.
There lived a moneylender named Shylock in Venice. He earned a lot by lending money to merchants.
After all, if the rich aren't mean and evil, why would Shylock the wealthy moneylender, want a pound of Antonio's flesh in Shakespeare's the Merchant of the Venice?
Many hundreds of years ago in a small Italian town, a merchant had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to the moneylender.