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
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
Some twelve or fifteen years ago an official called Gromov, a highly respectable and prosperous person, was living in his own house in the principal street of the town.
From The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance
