prosperous person
Example Sentences
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Below it, the bewigged pawnbroker is a rare prosperous person.
From BBC • Jul. 28, 2014
There’s plenty to like about that, but also plenty to dislike if you’re the sort of prosperous person who owns or manages a small or medium-sized firm.
From Slate • Jul. 2, 2012
No one was there, but it was clearly the dwelling of some very prosperous person.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
She might have been a large, fair, rich, prosperous person of twenty-five; she was at any rate near enough to it to put me for ever in my place.
From The Sacred Fount by James, Henry
Peter had a funny, extremely amused laugh; hardly the laugh of a prosperous person; rather that of the unhorsed knight who acknowledges the utterness of his defeat and finds humour in the very fact.
From The Lee Shore by Macaulay, Rose, Dame
