person of means
Example Sentences
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He is a person of means, sophistication and by all appearances he has the resources to evade capture.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2011
Her daughter, Pearl Ann, was already away at the university, and some speculated that Mrs. Larkin was less a person of means than she liked others to believe and maybe couldn’t afford to leave town.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
He was now, in some measure, "a person of means," and he made the habit of connoisseurship his hobby.
From Henrik Ibsen by Gosse, Edmund
There was plenty of room upon the public seat close to it, except for some children who were playing touch; and in consequence of this I judged her to be a person of means.
From The Fawn Gloves by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
Besides I found that a toga, over a poor man's tunic, was not nearly so uncomfortable as it was over the more complicated garb of a fashionable person of means and position.
From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by White, Edward Lucas
