person of means
Example Sentences
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He is a person of means, sophistication and by all appearances he has the resources to evade capture.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2011
Her daughter, Pearl Ann, was already away at the university, and some speculated that Mrs. Larkin was less a person of means than she liked others to believe and maybe couldn’t afford to leave town.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
He was now, in some measure, "a person of means," and he made the habit of connoisseurship his hobby.
From Henrik Ibsen by Gosse, Edmund
He was a gentleman, a person of means, librarian to a reigning prince, and frequently employed in state affairs of trust and importance.
From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Huggard, E.M.
Besides I found that a toga, over a poor man's tunic, was not nearly so uncomfortable as it was over the more complicated garb of a fashionable person of means and position.
From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by White, Edward Lucas
