fat purse

Example Sentences

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Said a Teheran lawyer: "An empty pocket now holds as much power as a fat purse."

From Time Magazine Archive

Also he mentally counted a third fat purse �$3,375.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now that the critics have roasted MacBird into a gilt-edged annuity, she will have to reconcile herself to fame and a fat purse.

From Time Magazine Archive

Papers and account books lie around him, and are heaped up in the background, and on his left, resting on a thick volume, stands a fat purse.

From Great Masters in Painting: Rembrandt van Rijn by Bell, Malcolm

They gave him a sword and a company, and he went with the French through all the wars of Marlborough, gaining distinction, and, what is more, a fat purse.

From In the Valley by Frederic, Harold