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
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
Noël, conspicuously prosperous in blue and silver, had but now gone down the Rue Saint Jacques, singing, clinking the fat purse whose plumpness was still a novelty.
From The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages by James Branch Cabell
The few miners that got in the fall before had hung up a fat purse for their Christmas mail and Abe needed the money.
From Laramie Holds the Range by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman
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 Harold Frederic
