pecuniary resources
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During Pope's boyhood he was an elderly rake about town, having squandered his intellectual as well as his pecuniary resources, but still scribbling bad verses and maxims on the model of Rochefoucauld.
From Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
I tremble for the anxiety of mind you suffer about Papa and your own pecuniary resources.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas
This was a happiness to which I had but one objection,—my limited pecuniary resources.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 by Various
“Obliged by circumstances to leave me—to conceal the place of her retirement”—yet commanding not only pecuniary resources for herself, but offering me any sum I might require!
From Frank Mildmay Or, the Naval Officer by Marryat, Frederick
La Salle, a young man of good family, and of sufficient fortune, had emigrated to Canada in search of fame, and with the further view of increasing his pecuniary resources.
From The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Roger, Charles
