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I say," said I, "that you Croesuses make a half-pay Major of Artillery's head reel.

From The Red Planet by Locke, William John

For fear of halters, we must alter our way of living; we must live close, Bardolph, till the wars make us Croesuses or food for crows.

From The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages by Cabell, James Branch

A youth of twenty-three, tall, modest, intellectual, and long-haired—in short, the "Ticket"—was to read the opening of a tragedy; and sculptors, painters, mechanicians, and city Croesuses, were invited to be present at the display.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 by Various

"After what you have told me," I said, "I do not so much wonder that the nation is richer now than then, but that you are not all Croesuses."

From Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 by Bellamy, Edward

Then St. Nicholas sighs and sighs, and sends for his messengers, and they all come in with long faces, and take off big packages to the Croesuses and the Centlivres, and the rest of them.

From Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse by Schauffler, Robert Haven