fat purse

“You quibbled. You haggled. Art was involved and you saw only money. Beauty was here for the taking and you saw only your fat purse. You have lost nothing; there is no more reason for your remaining here. Please go.”

Who would risk the Commandant's wrath to save a slave's life, even for a fat purse?

While the main game did have some darker, more tragic turns, Kenway was by and large a man whose belief in freedom corresponded conveniently with his desire for a fat purse.

"I shall give a franc to every one of them," said Nancy, taking out her small fat purse, as the first one-armed mendicant held out his greasy hat.

The fingers of the cavaliere fumbled under his cloak, and a fat purse fell squab into the snow, where it lay, a dark spot in the whiteness around, for all the world like a sleeping toad.