moneyed man
Example Sentences
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He was a moneyed man now, with an extravagant wife, but no children.
From Gigolo by Ferber, Edna
But, as compared with the merchant or moneyed man, who derives his income from trade or realised capital in a movable form, the landholder is, in every direct taxation, exposed to a most serious disadvantage.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various
My God, if I could only lay my hand on a moneyed man who would back a paper thro' a fight like this and tell the counting rooms to go to the Devil!
From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
He was a moneyed man; a selfish man; and, after his sort, an ambitious man.
From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Warren, Samuel
Mr. Flam never was what you might call a moneyed man.
From Quodlibet by Kennedy, John Pendleton
