long purse
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Well, the long purse won, as it doth ever.
From The Mississippi Bubble by Hough, Emerson
To the general public a long purse is synonymous with high position—a theory dear to the heart of the "yellow" press and eagerly fostered in the preposterous social functions of screen drama.
From Etiquette by Post, Emily
Mr. Smith has untiring energy, which does something; self-evident honesty of conviction, which does more; and a long purse, which does most of all.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene
She had brought her knitting in a beautiful silk bag, and explained that she was making a long purse of black silk and steel beads, for the sale at the church.
From What Two Children Did by Chittenden, Charlotte E.
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.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
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