pecuniary resources
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If I have not pecuniary resources enough to get at what I would wish for, as calculated to be useful to my mind, I must still not give up the pursuit.
From The Book of Courage by John Thomson Faris
The pecuniary resources of the vast empire were great, and they were managed so skilfully by Buonaparte that the supplies were raised within the year, and in a metallic currency.
From The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
Meekins, discharged from jail, was living at an inn in the town, surrounded by a strong staff of barristers, whose rank and standing plainly showed that abundant pecuniary resources supplied every agency of battle.
From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
Such, then, was the amount of information acquired regarding Mr Mowbray's pecuniary resources; and more, on this point, or any other regarding him, could not, by any means, be arrived at.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 by John Mackay Wilson
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 Florence A. Thomas Marshall
