Affluence

Usage examples of wealth.

Hengist, who boldly aspired to the conquest of Britain, exhorted his countrymen to embrace the glorious opportunity: he painted in lively colors the fertility of the soil, the wealth of the cities, the pusillanimous temper of the natives, and the convenient situation of a spacious solitary island, accessible on all sides to the Saxon fleets.

The booty that fell into the hands of the Goths was immense: the wealth of the adjacent countries had been deposited in Trebizond, as in a secure place of refuge.

The first column read: acerbus - house adhuc - wealth adsum - jewels autem - address bellum - inspect bonum - lock The column could be read no further.

The rival view was that true riches lay in trade, agriculture and industry, where wealth was truly earned and productively used.

He does four-fifths of the agricultural labor of the South and thereby adds four-fifths to the wealth of the South derived from agriculture, the leading Southern industry.

They whom I favour thrive in wealth amain, 430 While virtue, valour, wisdom, sit in want.

And there is no place better for making a name than the Inns of Court, and no profession more suited for amassing wealth than the law.

Of course everyone understood that the Ancestress had no intention of burying her wealth with Fainting Maid, but the display was customary, and it was also designed to make lesser mortals turn green with envy.

Yet I feel that for the Keinaba family, whose wealth and acumen is known and admired throughout the Empire, to instruct one of their own to learn Anglais, one as high-ranking, as valuable, and as perceptive as yourself, Hon Echido, means that there is a more delicate matter you wish to broach.

This development was secret however, and the wealth of its power was given over solely to TwoPi, the most numerous and advanced of the Hives, and to Arachno Buckminster Mouze, a physicist - if such a term could encompass as many spheres of hard science as could be imagined.

From the pure white kaffiyeh on his head bound by the heavy silver-and-black cords of an argal, to the expensive tailored suit on his large frame and his handmade shoes, he was the embodiment of Middle East wealth and power.

It would have meant borrowing every last bit of wealth owned by even the most impoverished Argali farmers, but besting the amount by one stalk of bi-wheat was all it took.

Prejudice, Argent had found in his dealing around the world, was established and enforced by wealth.

Men of wealth, all these, who cherished the memory of Henry Argyle and kept close watch upon the preserves over which they had been appointed guardians.

Grain-sellers and armourers and clothiers and horse-sellers and countless other suppliers smile with the pleasure of impending wealth.