fat purse
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Said a Teheran lawyer: "An empty pocket now holds as much power as a fat purse."
From Time Magazine Archive
Now that the critics have roasted MacBird into a gilt-edged annuity, she will have to reconcile herself to fame and a fat purse.
From Time Magazine Archive
A fat purse might be dandled some day, and the well-exercised limbs repose gracefully in a carriage and pair.
From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote
Without a chaperon I should be conspicuous, and without a fat purse I should be handicapped.
From A Chair on the Boulevard by Leonard Merrick
Noël, conspicuously prosperous in blue and silver, had but now gone down the Rue Saint Jacques, singing, clinking the fat purse whose plumpness was still a novelty.
From The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages by James Branch Cabell
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