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 seemed a person of means and leisure, but he knew nothing of recent concerts, theatres, or books.
From The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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.
It was for these that he was most esteemed in his own day, being the fashionable portrait painter of Amsterdam at a time when every person of means wished to have his likeness painted.
From Rembrandt A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)
