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long purse
noun
informal, wealth; riches
Example Sentences
The earl was a great man, with a long purse, and he might yet have his way.
The opinionative islander turned the still vibrating scale by pulling out a long purse and repeating his original theory, that the whole question was mercantile.
A wealthy widow who has the command of a long purse more readily falls a prey to the temptations of the world than one who, moving in an humbler sphere of life, has her mind almost wholly engrossed with domestic cares, and the thoughts of a future state of beatitude.
"Nay, your long purse is not always your short cut to justice, even in Rome," said Mr. Somerville.
The artful Numidian came with a very small retinue and a very long purse; for he knew that in meeting such an antagonist as Rome, he should not have to draw the steel from the scabbard, but the gold from the treasury.
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