Use rich in a sentence
Sentences starting with rich
- Rich people were timid and suspicious; and as the Emperor had lately promulgated fresh and more stringent edicts against the magic arts, Posidonius had thought it prudent to postpone the meeting. [10]
- Rich men, or reputed rich men, whose wives never appeared, who were kept in secluded quarters in Bloomsbury or Maida Vale, gave dinners at the Savoy or the Carlton which the scrapings of the aristocracy attended; but these gave no dinners in return. [11]
- Rich information about Pythagoras is to be found in the works of the very learned scholar Roeth, who is however occasionally much too bold in his conjectures. [10]
- Rich old Plutarch's only son already has a seat in the council, and has not yet taken a wife. [10]
- Rich Herr Baersdorp, one of the four burgomasters, who had the largest grain business in Leyden, had undertaken to purchase considerable quantities of bread-stuffs in the name of the city. [10]
- Rich and possessed of sight, perfect sight! [10]
- Rich tiger-lilies thrust in at the sill, and lazy flies and king bees boomed in and out of the window. [11]
- Rich hangings floated from every window and balcony in the city. [10]
- Rich Babylonian carpets covered the floor and his chair was of gold, cushioned with purple. [10]
Sentences ending with rich
- We knew that you were rich. [10]
- I have told you his father was a freedman of the former prefect Claudius Balbillus, and by the favor of the Roman his father rose and grew rich. [10]
- It was a world to see how the nobles preferred to gold and silver, which abounded, the new Venice glass, whence a great trade sprang up with Murano that made many rich. [4]
- But other men, who were not half so good as Uncle Tom, got rich. [9]
- Health, beauty, strength, were fine qualities, and in all these she was rich. [6]
- He said that was true enough, but they would hang to it until it did prove rich. [5]
- I think it was in 1863 that some genius suggested that it be put upon the gold and silver coins which circulated among the rich. [5]
- Some says it was about a horse or a cow-- anyway, it was a little matter; the money in it wasn't of no consequence--none in the world--both families was rich. [5]
- He's after keeping us poor and making himself rich. [11]
- I've been in town two days, and I hain't heard nothing but about you bein' rich. [5]
Short sentences using rich
- Folks rich once,--smashed up. [6]
- Isn't that being rich? [9]
- We will be rich. [9]
- They were very rich. [5]
- We've gold--we'll be rich. [13]
- Breaking Rock is rich. [11]
- Such service demandeth rich reward. [5]
- Whoever owns it--is rich indeed. [10]
- This is a rich country. [4]
- How rich its owner was! [10]
Sentences containing rich two or more times
- His son Lopez was rich, very rich in friends, and among them were numbered all to whom knowledge was dear. [10]
- For Cousin Robert was rich, as riches went in those days: not only rich, but comfortable. [9]
- My dead mother used to say that there are always more good things in a poor family which was once rich than in a rich one which was formerly poor. [10]
- I suppose they think we're rich, and hate us--if they hate rich people; they don't look as if they hated anybody. [8]
- The palaces of the rich, in Melbourne, are much like the palaces of the rich in America, and the life in them is the same; but there the resemblance ends. [5]
- How rich the solitary man felt, how surpassingly rich! [10]
- To make the rich poorer would suit him well, so long as he remained rich. [11]
- If he gets rich here he won't get rich alone. [11]
- My mother--my other mother that's gone away--she always told me to work along and not be much expecting to get rich, and then I wouldn't be disappointed if I didn't get rich. [5]
- But suppose a limit to be agreed on, and the rich old man and the rich old woman (never now too old to marry) to start on their career towards youth and poverty. [4]
More example sentences with the word rich in them
- A sample: a youth staked out a claim and tried to sell half for L5; no takers; he stuck to it fourteen days, starving, then struck it rich and sold out for L10,000. [5]
- You see, maybe you's got to be po' a long time fust, en so you might git discourage' en kill yo'sef 'f you didn' know by de sign dat you gwyne to be rich bymeby. [5]
- While it lasts you're rich, and you're young, and you don't care what happens. [11]
- It is not your rich gifts that have drawn me to you. [10]
- Now, you set your foot on shore In Novo Orbe; here's the rich Peru: And there within, sir, are the golden mines, Great Solomon's Ophir!---- B. Jonson The supper at Col. [5]
- You're a rich young man, Meister Adrian! [10]
- Soon Appelles arrives, young and vigorous and full of enthusiasm: he has led a host against the Persians and won the battle; he is the pet of fortune, rich, honoured, believed, 'Master of Palmyra'. [5]
- Didn't I change you off, en give you a good fambly en a good name, en made you a white gen'l'man en rich, wid store clothes on--en what did I git for it? [5]
- And how rich you must be! [10]
- I began abruptly:--Do you know that you are a rich young person? [6]
- You are young, you are rich, you are clever, you are well educated. [2]
- Bound a hundred years ago, perhaps, and one of the rich old browned covers gone--what a pity! [6]
- We lived among ye, poor as ye are poor, yet rich for that Egypt was no poorer because of us. [11]
- How often they would see Pollux returning from the distant city whither he had probably fled-from Rome, or even from Athens--crowned with laurels and rich in treasure. [10]
- Many a father would have been rich enough with forty. [5]
- She thought it would be very nice to be rich, and to live in a great house in a city, and to go on picnics. [9]
- This gift was worth twenty houses in the city, and made its owner a rich man. [10]
- The stone is worth a landed estate, and though I am not a rich man, I would pay down two talents for it at any moment, even if I had to borrow the money. [10]
- But our great world--the rich people, were stupid, with no wish to be otherwise; they were not even curious about authors and artists. [8]
- The feminine society world welcomed him gladly, because he was rich, distinguished, a good match, and almost a newcomer, with a halo of romance on account of his supposed death and the tragic loss of his wife. [2]
- After that, a world of tumbling and prodigious clouds came drifting up out of the West and took to themselves a wonderfully rich and brilliant green color--the decided green of new spring foliage. [5]
- Nowhere in the world is there such a concentration of rich mines as at Johannesburg. [5]
- A rich man won't have anything but your very best; and you can just pile it on, too--pile it on and sock it to him-- he won't ever holler. [5]
- No, Tom, I won't be rich, and I won't live in them cussed smothery houses. [5]
- Look at this wonderful purple robe with the white stripe and the rich silver embroidery; and then the tiara with the royal diamonds! [10]
- Prosperity followed, commerce with the world began, by and by rich mines of the noble metals were opened, immigrants flowed in, capital likewise. [5]
- She was tall, with rich, yellow hair falling loosely about her head; she had a strong, finely cut chin and a broad brow, under which a pair of deep blue eyes shone-violet blue, rare and fine. [11]
- Everyone is familiar with Joshua's later life, so rich in action, and how he won in battle a new home for his people. [10]
- To Honora, gifted with imagination, the house had an odour all its own; a rich, clean odour significant, in later life, of wealth and luxury and spotless housekeeping. [9]
- Emperor Sigismund signs with his hand, and the two heralds who head the train uplift their trumpets with rich embroidered banners. [10]
- She had married with her fingers holding the scales of advantage; and Lord Haldwell dressed well, was immensely rich, and the title had a charm. [11]
- But He has willed that His rich shall help His poor, and you have turned away from me, your brother, in my need, and He will remember this, and you will lose by it. [5]
- Mr. Crede, behind whose store I still lived, was getting rich, and happened to have an affair of some importance in Philadelphia. [9]
- He hated everybody who was rich and respectable. [10]
- There are others who exhibit those great qualities as greatly as he does, but only by intervaled distributions of rich moonlight, with stretches of veiled and dimmer landscape between; whereas Howells's moon sails cloudless skies all night and all the nights. [5]
- But this Pontius, who carried out such fine works for Herodes Atticus, the rich Sophist, met me at his house, and will certainly recognize me. [10]
- The very rich, who are apt to be irreligious. [6]
- And whereas I, who am but a poor and simple serving man, have never been fain to set my heart on one only maid, no less is to be looked for in my gracious master, who is rich and of noble birth. [10]
- Immigrants got rich while the ship unloaded and reloaded--and went back home for good in the same cabin they had come out in! [5]
- The rich clothes which the princess had given her became her as if she had never worn any others; she could obey discreetly, disappear at the right moment, and, when she was invited, chatter delightfully. [10]
- Which was this: whenever one of these came to die, then beyond the vague and formless images drifting through his darkening mind rose soft and rich and fair a vision of the Tree--if all was well with his soul. [5]
- All in all, whenever he thought of this pair, he felt like the lover of art who entrusts the finest gem in his collection to a rich man who knows not how to prize its real value, and puts it in the wrong place. [10]
- No doubt wealth when very great tends to convert men into useless drones, but their number is never large; and some degree of elimination here occurs, for we daily see rich men, who happen to be fools or profligate, squandering away their wealth. [1]
- By and by, when the youth I love is my husband, I will prove my gratitude; for he is as rich as he is handsome and kind, and will, I know, refuse me nothing. [10]
- The rich man, what he care, if he has gold? [11]
- The old "hangings" were yet preserved in the chambers, faded, but still showing their rich patterns,--properly entitled to their name, for they were literally hung upon flat wooden frames like trellis-work, which again were secured to the naked partitions. [6]
- At length there were signs that we were drifting out of the wilderness, and one morning we came in sight of a rich plantation with its dark orange trees and fields of indigo, with its wide-galleried manor-house in a grove. [9]
- How many tears were shed over those coffins which contained the earthly remains of many a young life once rich in hopes and glowing with warm enthusiasm, many a quiet heart which had throbbed joyously for man's noblest possession! [10]
- Among those who were rich in spirit her brother Philip was certainly one of the richest, and whither had an acute understanding and restless brain led him that they so seldom gave his feelings time to make themselves heard? [10]
- If the truth were known, it would doubtless appear that rich plebeians grew too prominent in their affectation of patrician show on the Grand Canal, and required a wholesome snubbing. [5]
- His great schemes were completed, he was a rich man, and he had pictured himself retiring to this Seigneury, a peaceful and practical figure, living out his days in a refined repose which his earlier life had never known. [11]
- The silky mountains were clothed in soft, rich splendors of melting color, and some of the cliffs were veiled in slanting mists. [5]
- You know perfectly well there are no rich mines here--of course you do. [5]
- She was pretty well paid, to be sure, and in answer to Selene's enquiry, he had stated the amount she earned and mentioned the name of the rich manufacturer to whom she had sold her social standing for gold. [10]
- You would have weened that day that there were none but rich folk in Nuremberg. [10]
- And I will wear it for you when I am rich, Uncle Jethro. [9]
- Hour after hour we slopped along, by the roaring torrent, and under noble Lesser Alps which were clothed in rich velvety green all the way up and had little atomy Swiss homes perched upon grassy benches along their mist-dimmed heights. [5]
- I ton't tink we are all cuilty or gorrubt, and efen among the rich there are goodt men. [8]
- However, the land-locked water was lovely, at any rate, with its glittering belts of blue and green where moderate soundings were, and its broad splotches of rich brown where the rocks lay near the surface. [5]
- Ask the old Washington residents whether the coming in of rich people with leisure hasn't demoralized society, or stiffened it, and made it impossible after the old sort. [4]
- His mental life was too rich, and the unburdening of his anxious soul too great a relief for that. [10]
- What a contrast was this rich country, warm with color and suggestive of abundance, to the pale and scrimped coast land of Maine denuded of its trees! [4]
- Besides this, she was the only offspring of a rich and noble house. [10]
- Lost, thrown away, was the aim and end of a long life, rich in self-denial and prayer! [10]
- All Jethro realized was that the man who stood in his way, the big, rich, masterful Gorgio was there. [11]
- His glorious figure was set off to advantage by his rich dress, his features were bright with happiness and a feeling of conscious strength. [10]
- The last extremity was reached when the collection-plate began its rounds; the moderate people threw in pennies, the nobles and the rich contributed silver, but she laid a twenty-mark gold piece upon the book-rest before her with a sounding slap! [5]
- And yet he was rated one of the rich men of the city, and his name Hodder had read on many boards with Mr. Parr's! [9]
- His tall figure was now resplendent with rich ornaments, and a priest, who walked before him, held the vessel high above his head. [10]
- Though the position was now altered by his decision to pay his wife's debts and to rebuild his houses, Pierre still maintained that he had become three times as rich as before. [2]
- At Heliopolis he was met by deputations from the Greek inhabitants of Naukratis and the Libyans, praying for peace and his protection, and bringing a golden wreath and other rich presents. [10]
- In fact, he was getting rich, hand over fist, and was vastly respected. [5]
- The old house was fat with the deposits of rich generations which had gone before. [6]
- No other topic was discussed but the rich strike, and nobody thought or dreamed about anything else. [5]
- All day she was American, practically, and proud of the work of her head and hands and its commercial result; all the evening she took holiday and dwelt in a rich shadow-land peopled with titled and coroneted fictions. [5]
- Much newly-erected woodwork was already removed, but the rich longest resisted having the axe put to theirs. [10]
- Crowning the shadows was a splendid helmet of light, rich with the dyes of the morning; the pines were touched with a brilliant if austere warmth. [11]
- The rich shall warrant the poor against planless production and the ruin that now follows, against danger from without and famine from within, and the poor--" "No, no, no! [8]
- Of course the wagon load of rich ore was all that the victim ever got out of his purchase. [5]
- In the second volume, the author gives us an ample supply of excellent brown bread; in his third, only such a portion as gives substance, like the crumbs of bread in a well-made, not too rich, plum-pudding. [14]
- Frequently Paulina received visits from heathen acquaintances in rich dresses and the sight of them always reminded Arsinoe of former days. [10]
- I know the very woman--the Comtesse Chantavoine--young, rich, amiable. [11]
- I am still very rich, for my stock is far from exhausted. [14]
- Now they are very rich and highly respected, and Master Clemens sits in the Senate. [10]
- It is not very likely,--she answered.--I have had one or two opportunities, but I had rather be anything than governess in a rich family. [6]
- She felt her veins full of the same rich blood as that which had flushed the cheeks of handsome Judith in the long summer of her triumph. [6]
- He appears and vanishes at will, is as alert as he is rich, sees and hears everything, and manages to secure the best places. [10]
- It is no valid objection to this conclusion that animals suddenly supplied with an excess of food, or when grown very fat; and that most plants on sudden removal from very poor to very rich soil, are rendered more or less sterile. [1]
- Other people have used the means he used to get rich and haven't succeeded. [4]
- He had promised us, instead of this place of bondage, a new and delightful home where we should dwell free men, amid fruitful fields and rich pastures, which would supply food to every man and his family and make all hearts rejoice. [10]
- You would give us justice and make us rich by what you call progress. [11]
- His eyes fell upon her rich, firm, stately body; it lingered for a moment on the brown fulness of her hair; then her look was gathered to his, and they fell into each other's arms. [11]
- It belongs to two phases of society,--a cankered over-civilization, such as exists in rich aristocracies, and the reckless life of borderers and adventurers, or the semi-barbarism of a civilization resolved into its primitive elements. [6]
- This unaccustomed sight turned all eyes toward the mountain; and as they looked, a little tongue of rich golden flame was seen waving and quivering in the heart of the midnight, away up on the extreme summit! [5]
- As soon as trouble oppresses us, the poor and lowly will stand firm, if the rich and great waver and deny the good cause. [10]
- Worldly wealth is trash--to be rich the poorest happiness. [10]
- The older felt transported to the past, the younger seemed to have naught save a present rich in blessing and a future green with hope. [10]
- No one is too rich to receive something, and no one too poor to give a trifle. [4]
- His rich, low tones had the strangest significance to her; she felt sure he must have lived through long experiences, sorrowful like her own. [6]
- I could have told her that those masses of rich furs constituted wealth--or would in my country--but she would not have understood that; those were not the kind of things that ranked as riches with her people. [5]
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