Or, to speak in the fashionable language of the adversaries to the Constitution, will it court the elevation of "the
wealthy and the well-born," to the exclusion and debasement of all the rest of the society?
A DOG that had seen a Physician attending the burial of a
wealthy patient, said: "When do you expect to dig it up?"
Fogg had sixteen hours in which to attend to his business there, which was to deposit Aouda safely with her
wealthy relative.
After considerable experience in coming into contact with
wealthy and noted men, I have observed that those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who "keep under the body"; are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient, and polite.
Thorpe, most happy to be on speaking terms with a man of General Tilney's importance, had been joyfully and proudly communicative; and being at that time not only in daily expectation of Morland's engaging Isabella, but likewise pretty well resolved upon marrying Catherine himself, his vanity induced him to represent the family as yet more
wealthy than his vanity and avarice had made him believe them.
To marry the former and own the latter was Paul's idea of the earthly paradise, and it was the
wealthy connoisseur, and he alone, who could open the gates.
Shall it be with the majority, or the
wealthy, with a number of proper persons, or one better than the rest, or with a tyrant?
The old mine, which I found untouched, has made me fabulously
wealthy; but what care I for wealth!
And this is called the
wealthy class, and the drones feed upon them.
"The justice of the peace died just as our second prosperous epoch began, and luckily for us, his successor had formerly been a notary in Grenoble who had lost most of his fortune by a bad speculation, though enough of it yet remained to cause him to be looked upon in the village as a
wealthy man.
It has enabled poor Me to serve the caprice of a
wealthy member of the family into which my late uncle married.
"We can see all `the handsome houses where the
wealthy nobles dwell.' Spofford Avenue is the finest residential street in Kingsport.