Wealthy

Examples

• The lady was wealthy and beautiful, and had a liking for the girl, and treated her with great kindness, and kept her always near her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The system was sold to a very wealthy man, and he would never sell any rights or answer letters. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Here, in a broad thoroughfare, once the abode of wealthy City merchants, we found the sculpture works for which we searched. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Wealthy men had to come together to create an enterprise; credit and plant, that is to say, Capital, were required. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Chief Butler, no doubt, reflected that the course of nature required the wealthy population to be kept up, on his account. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• At the same time, Holmes continued, Lady Eva is not a wealthy woman. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Not only were the cities outwardly more splendidly built, but within the homes of the wealthy there had been great advances in the art of decoration. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A great sum of money is waiting to be paid over to him as his inheritance; you are all henceforth very wealthy. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But I wonder no wealthy nobleman or gentleman has taken a fancy to her: Mr. Rochester, for instance. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Therefore he must be wealthy, eh? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The demand of wealthier nations, however, sometimes enables him to get a rent for it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It became fashionable for everyday use by the nobility and wealthier families, who put aside their solid silverware to be used on state occasions only. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• If there are any merchants among them, they are, properly, only the agents of wealthier merchants who reside in some of the great commercial cities. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Mr. Yorke's family was the first and oldest in the district; and he, though not the wealthiest, was one of the most influential men. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The greatest and perhaps the wealthiest. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He went off one day with the son of the wealthiest man in the town to bathe in the creek. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In the pursuit of which, by thrift and management, I might reasonably expect, in about two hundred years, to be the wealthiest man in the kingdom. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I had an interview with one of the wealthiest men in New York. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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