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

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 Lever, Charles James

She hoped herself some day to add to her pecuniary resources by writing for biological papers or even by giving lectures.

From Fifty-Two Stories For Girls by Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry)

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 Wilson, John Mackay

The time which has elapsed since the commencement of our fiscal measures has developed our pecuniary resources so as to open a way for a definitive plan for the redemption of the public debt.

From Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States by Van Buren, Martin