Zent

But if you’d a mind to lend a bit o’ money to Mr. Tom, he’d pay you six or seven per zent, an’ get a trifle for himself as well; an’ a good-natur’d lady like you ’ud like the feel o’ the money better if your nephey took part on it. ❋ Unknown (1917)

An’ it’s a downright roarin’ shame, as when he’s got the chance o’ making a bit o’ money wi’ sending goods out, —ten or twelve per zent clear, when freight an’ commission’s paid, —as he shouldn’t lay hold o’ the chance for want o’ money. ❋ Unknown (1917)

Well, she let out thirty pound to a young man in the drapering line, and he laid it out i’ Laceham goods, an’ a shupercargo o’ my acquinetance (not Salt) took ’em out, an’ she got her eight per zent fust go off; an’ now you can’t hold her but she must be sendin’ out carguies wi’ every ship, till she’s gettin’ as rich as a Jew. ❋ Unknown (1917)

"Bollyooly zent me to buy bebbermints," said his charge stolidly, without stopping. ❋ Edgar Jepson (1900)

"M'appen tha knaw'd the little chap as Christ's man zent to prizon thysen?" ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)

It iss not hawnest mawney -- that hass been oarned py voark; it iss mawney that hass peen mate py sbeculation, and the obbression off lapor, and the necessity of the boor, py a man -- Here it is, efery tollar, efery zent. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

"I want to be zet to work now, Master Nic, or to be zent away; for I feel as if I ought to be doing zomething, instead of idling about here." ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

Her can't get out of an avening now, her hath zent word to me, to tull 'ee.' ❋ Unknown (1862)

'What could 'em do?' asked the little man, with reason certainly on his side: 'hus zent 'em about their business, and they was glad enough to goo.' ❋ Unknown (1862)

An 'it's a downright roarin' shame, as when he's got the chance o 'making a bit o' money wi 'sending goods out, -- ten or twelve per zent clear, when freight an' commission's paid, -- as he shouldn't lay hold o 'the chance for want o' money. ❋ George Eliot (1849)

Well, she let out thirty pound to a young man in the drapering line, and he laid it out i 'Laceham goods, an' a shupercargo o 'my acquinetance (not Salt) took 'em out, an' she got her eight per zent fust go off; an 'now you can't hold her but she must be sendin' out carguies wi 'every ship, till she's gettin' as rich as a Jew. ❋ George Eliot (1849)

After 1820, he was Privatdo zent (private tutor) in Berlin, but he had scarcely any students in his classes, which were announced at the same time as Hegel's. ❋ Ulovemusicsodoi (2010)

Ugly people zhould be zent to a camp zo we do not have to zee them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Her can’t get out of an avening now, her hath zent word to me, to tull ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

‘What could ’em do?’ asked the little man, with reason certainly on his side: ‘hus zent ’em about their business, and they was glad enough to goo.’ ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

I vas coming up in the Bristol coach yesterday, and the guard he told me that he had vifteen thousand pound in hard gold in the boot that had been zent up to back our man. " ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1896)

I was [totally] zent at about [3:15] [yesterday] ❋ G Johnson (2007)

"[damn], my zent is like a [right angle]." ❋ Tommmy Callahan (2008)

Is [Kev] zenting again? [Ignore] him. also as a noun: Lame: my twitter [feed] is always just a load of zents ❋ Grand Al (2010)

[Bra], that dude has been on a [vision quest] for six months — he's so [zent]. ❋ TheBigSmooth25 (2021)

Zente? He is [a bitch], but [I love him]. ❋ Idkjusthere9 (2021)