Unborrowed

In the last twenty years or so, we saw the utilization of a dizzying array of nontraditional alternatives in which rates were not fixed or only fixed for a time, principal was only partially amortized or not amortized at all, and by means of second mortgages or simply through lax underwriting standards, purchases often means little or no upfront, unborrowed cash deposit. ❋ David A. Dana (2010)

There is something of the laboratory in this library where the books lie dusty and unborrowed, while exams are swotted for and where the intellectual and social posturing hides insecurities and self harm. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When the entire private sector deleverages, the economy faces the danger of falling into a deflationary spiral as saved funds and repaid loans sit unborrowed in the banking system. ❋ Richard C. Koo (2010)

So my only sources of background information were the Penguin Book of Comics and an American volume on newspaper strips by Gene Byrnes which lurked otherwise unborrowed in my local library. ❋ Steve (2009)

No wonder, then, that ever gathering volume from the mere transit over the wildest watery spaces, the outblown rumors of the White Whale did in the end incorporate with themselves all manner of morbid hints, and half-formed foetal suggestions of supernatural agencies, which eventually invested Moby Dick with new terrors unborrowed from anything that visibly appears. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Sydney or Dobell speaks with a voice of his own, unborrowed, unmimicked. ❋ Unknown (2002)

That very life is wisdom, not a wisdom built up by reasonings but complete from the beginning, suffering no lack which could set it enquiring, a wisdom primal, unborrowed, not something added to the ❋ Plotinus (1952)

Here, again, we find the same unborrowed feeling for outward ❋ Various (N/A)

That is a golden tenet of the tea-growers which licenses the borrowing of ideas; that 'of the earth, earthy,' which embargoes every one unborrowed. ❋ Various (N/A)

To study, with the artist, the least of her beauties, -- to explore, with the man of science, the smallest of her wonders, -- or even simply to wander among her exhaustless resources, like a child, needing no interest unborrowed from the eye, -- this feeds body and brain and heart and soul together. ❋ Various (N/A)

Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received -- hatred. ❋ Rand, Ayn (1943)

Nor is it rash to suppose that the same causes may have tended to promote that unborrowed intellectual development for which they stand so conspicuous. ❋ Robert Ezra Park (1926)

Whatever part suggestion and imitation may have played in producing them in men and women in excited assemblies, they have at any rate been in countless individual instances an original and unborrowed experience. ❋ Unknown (1902)

Personally I may confess to a preference, which I suspect most readers will share, for getting this precise form of whimsical romance from the original firm; but there is more than enough spirit in G.B. STERN'S work to persuade me that he or she will one day be worth reading in an individual and unborrowed style. ❋ Various (1898)

Had he reached a strip of "no man's land," a space left unborrowed and unbroken, lying between two fires? ❋ Nat Gould (1888)

Thomson's blank verse, although, as Coleridge says, inferior to Cowper's, is often richly musical and with an energy unborrowed of Milton -- as ❋ Unknown (1886)