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Sentences starting with wealth

Wealth had been such an accepted part of her life, since she could remember, that she had attached no importance to it, and had only just come to see what distinctions it made, and how it built a barrier round about her. [4]
Wealth isn't made out of nothing. [4]
Wealth seemed to have a far and peculiar fascination for him, and I suspect he was a visionary in the midst of his poverty. [4]
Wealth and poverty, fame and obscurity, power and subordination, strength and weakness, health and disease, culture and ignorance, work and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are only greater or lesser degrees of freedom. [2]
Wealth not yet dreamed of will flow out of this land, and the waters of it will rot all save the pure, and corrupt all save the incorruptible. [9]
Wealth was more and more the master of England--new-made wealth; and some of it was too ostentatious and too pretentious to condone, much less indulge. [11]

Sentences ending with wealth

The answer to your arguments is to be seen on every side, atheism, hypocrisy, vice, misery, insane and cruel grasping after wealth. [9]
We have been wont to think of all the British as aristocrats, while they have returned the compliment by visualizing all Americans as plutocrats--despite the fact that one-tenth of our population is said to own nine-tenths of all our wealth! [9]
The first son, who was but a year older, and was as dark as he was fair, had inherited--had seized--all his father's wealth. [11]
Is affection as whimsically, as blindly distributed as wealth? [4]
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]
This never failed to draw a substantial "bill" from the wad which Jean Jacques always carried in his pocket-loose, not tied up in a leather roll, as so many lesser men freighted the burdens of their wealth. [11]
She went on to ask him point-blank how much money she now had, and as he happened to know approximately, he could tell her; she clasped her hands, for how could any one human being who was not a king possess such enormous wealth! [10]
The fact was, though Philip Sterling did not know it, that he wanted several other things quite as much as he wanted wealth. [5]
The Queen denied this, but Alexas eagerly continued: "The night after your return home your kindness was again displayed in its inexhaustible and--to us less noble souls--incomprehensible wealth. [10]
There are many things that I, personally, love better than fashion or wealth. [6]

Short sentences using wealth

So melted my wealth away. [5]
I care nothing for wealth. [5]
Tabus kept the family wealth. [10]
Wealth, 231, 232. [6]

Sentences containing wealth two or more times

In five years the increase in local wealth would not only reimburse the government for the outlay in this appropriation, but pour untold wealth into the treasury. [5]
If at times she wished for wealth, it was because wealth held the magic of emancipation from surroundings against which her soul revolted. [9]
As the proverb says, 'He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry out the wealth of the Indies. [6]
Where intellectual life keeps pace with the accumulation of wealth, society is likely to be more natural, simpler, less tied to artificial rules, than where wealth runs ahead. [4]
The wealth of Holland was on the one hand, the wealth of France on the other. [4]
Unfortunately the common expression that a certain person has wealth is not so true as it would be to say that wealth has him. [4]

More example sentences with the word wealth in them

If, Herr Casper, you intend to share with my wife and the twins what is left after the old wealth has gone, unfortunately, I cannot permit you to do so. [10]
I cannot offer you great wealth, but I say with confidence that I can offer you something better, something surer. [9]
A few years yonder in the desert--power, glory, wealth won for Egypt, the strength of thine arms known, the piety of thy spirit proven, thy name upon every tongue--on thy return, who then should fear for Egypt! [11]
Manufactures had not yet invaded the region either to add to its wealth or to defile its streams. [4]
During the first year after the catastrophe at Kaid's Palace Hylda could scarcely endure the advances made by her many admirers, the greatly eligible and the eager ineligible, all with as real an appreciation of her wealth as of her personal attributes. [11]
Born old, one would, of course, inherit experience, so that wealth could be made to contribute to happiness, and each day, instead of lessening the natural powers and increasing infirmities, would bring new vigor and capacity of enjoyment. [4]
The proposed emancipation would shorten the war, perpetuate peace, insure this increase of population, and proportionately the wealth of the country. [7]
I think we worship wealth a good deal, and we worship family a good deal, but if any one presumes too much upon either, he is likely to come to grief. [4]
He invested wisely, worked bravely, and his wealth grew fast. [11]
Ulrich now succeeded wonderfully, and lavished on the portrait all the wealth of love, with which his heart was filled. [10]
Hopeless husbands and wives were cast up like driftwood by the cruel, resistless flood of modern civilization--the very civilization which yielded their wealth and luxury. [9]
These two, blessed with sudden wealth, projected a visit to New York,--Col. Jack to see the sights, and Col. Jim to guard his unsophistication from misfortune. [5]
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]
He was satisfied with his wealth, but not proud of it; and piqued himself upon the hearty abundance rather than the style in which he lived. [4]
Endue him plenteously with Heavenly gifts; grant him in health and wealth long to live; strengthen him that he may vanquish and overcome all his enemies; and, finally, after this life, he may attain everlasting joy and felicity. [11]
This was a wide, wide track--for the humble followers of the camp of wealth pitch their tents round about it for many a mile--but its character was still the same. [12]
Perhaps that was why, though Shiel loved her, he had had a bitterness which galled his soul; why he had a determination to win sufficient wealth to make himself independent of her. [11]
The trivial sin which this sweet love secret contained had been pardoned in the case of the man bound by no older obligation, after a slight penance, and now for the first time he fully enjoyed the wealth of the unexpected new happiness. [10]
From this emotion, which filled heart and mind, a glowing wealth of other feelings had blossomed like buds upon a rosebush. [10]
Finally, the dowry which Els was to bring bore no comparison to the large sums Ernst Ortlieb had lavished upon the erection of the St. Clare Convent, and hence it was inferred that the wealth of the firm had sustained considerable losses. [10]
We were unable, when we reached the residence of old man Tatem, to imagine how the local superstition of his wealth arose. [4]
I cannot tell what power you hold over me, whether of life and death, or of wealth and poverty; but after talking to me of love, I should not have thought you would have wronged me by suggesting any meaner motive. [6]
We are already wealthy; we have greater resources and higher credit than any other nation; we have more wealth than any save one; we have vast accumulations of fortune, in private hands and in enormous corporations. [4]
He uses his wealth, Wallis says, to maintain the prosperity of the nation! [9]
If he had wealth, that would be almost a certainty, and he counted Sheila's gold as a guarantee of power. [11]
The whole expressed wealth, security, solidity, conservatism. [9]
Science has multiplied wealth, and facilitated intercourse, and the result is refinement of manners and a diffusion of education and information. [4]
Moreover, his newly-acquired wealth would enable her to help many indigent persons in their need and misery. [10]
Without reservoirs of wealth there would be no great universities, schools of science, museums, galleries of art, libraries, solid institutions of charity, and perhaps not the wide diffusion of culture which is the avowed aim of modern civilization. [4]
It was a wealth that accepted tribute calmly, as of inherent right. [9]
England's power and wealth rested upon her coal-beds. [4]
Quite apart from wealth or position, personality plays a part more powerful than all else in the eyes of every woman who has a soul which has substance enough to exist at all. [11]
Has inherited great wealth of manure, and by diligence has added to it. [5]
Remember, I have wealth more than wit can number; I have had power more than kings could emcompass; yet the world seems a desert; all nature appears an afflictive spectacle of warring passions. [5]
The burden of wealth is a heavy one to bear. [5]
But fashion and wealth are two very solemn realities, which the frivolous class of moralists have talked a great deal of silly stuff about. [6]
I suppose that wealth and rank have some privileges; but it is the law that the person having been pronounced dead by the physician shall be the same day brought to the dead-house, and lie there three whole days before interment. [4]
With all their wealth and opportunities, it seems to him that these select people have no higher object than the pleasures of the senses, and he is taught daily by reiterated example that this is the end and aim of life. [4]
Others might have wealth and beauty, he thought to himself, but what were these to the gift of genius? [6]
But what shall we say of Mr. Cluyme, and of a few others whose wealth alone enabled them to be Directors of the Fair? [9]
Again a warm wave of joy seemed to surge upward in her breast, and she fancied that her heart was much too small for such a wealth of rapture, and it was already overflowing in hot waves, washing all grief far, far away. [10]
I used to watch Mr. Grosvenor Kyme as he sat at the end of the dinner-table, dark, preoccupied, taciturn, symbolical of a wealth new to my experience, and which had about it a certain fabulous quality. [9]
If the aim was the progress of civilization, it is easy to see that there are other ways of diffusing civilization more expedient than by the destruction of wealth and of human lives. [2]
But if Hermon was cured, a rare wealth of the greatest happiness awaited him in the union with Daphne. [10]
Indeed, his talk was a good deal about wealth, especially about his cousin who had been down South and "got fore-handed" within a few years. [4]
They were the victims of an accident, which would be repaired as soon as the fact of their father's wealth had got around. [8]
I get along very well without the luxury and the wealth and the sort of society I've been accustomed to, but I do miss the respect and can't seem to get reconciled to the absence of it. [5]
His wealth was vast, and he spared it not. [5]
Those who seek vain pleasure in England take more pains to enjoy it than they would spend in New England to gain wealth, and yet have not half such sweet content. [4]
It was like unto nothing we had ever seen, nor can I give an adequate notion of how it affected us,--such a mixture it seemed of dirt and poverty and wealth and romance. [9]
What is wealth unless you buy things that give pleasure to life? [11]
Philip as a trusted clerk, without being admitted into interior secrets, came to know a good deal about Mavick's affairs, and to be more than ever impressed with his enormous wealth and the magnitude of his operations. [4]
Of course, this trivial and, fugitive fact of personal wealth does not create a permanent class, unless some special means are taken to arrest the process of disintegration in the third generation. [6]
Worldly wealth is trash--to be rich the poorest happiness. [10]
I seldom venture to think about our landed wealth, for "hope deferred maketh the heart sick. [5]
I remembered that to the colonel my uncle was a gentleman of respectability and of wealth, and a member of his Excellency's Council. [9]
She, too, went to rest in a joyous, happy mood, and, as she lay in her narrow bed, asked herself whether she could not renounce her ardent longing for wealth and splendour and be content with a modest life at Wolf's side. [10]
Sinai, were preparing to resist the Hebrews' passage through their well-watered tract in the wilderness with its wealth of palms. [10]
I should like to know how many young men of wealth and family would give up the pleasures of a London season were there not a strong attraction in Maryland. [9]
Each historian, according to his view of what constitutes a nation's progress, looks for these conditions in the greatness, wealth, freedom, or enlightenment of citizens of France or some other country. [2]
He wrote afterwards to his brother-in-law, Servianus, his fullest recognition of both the wealth and the industry of Alexandrians, saying, with terms of praise, that among them not one was idle. [10]
He was charmed to be called "Callias," [The noble Athenian family of Callias was famed for its wealth and splendor. [10]
For a long time we believed that salvation is gained by works--gifts to the Church, fasts, scourgings, seclusion from the world, self-confinement in a cell--and our wealth went to Rome. [10]
Our city was throwing off its social conservatism; wealth (which implied ability and superiority) was playing a greater part, entertainments were more luxurious, lines more strictly drawn. [9]
They seem endless, through odorous pine woods and shady lanes, by private roads among beautiful villas and exquisite grounds, with evidences everywhere of wealth to be sure, but of individual taste and refinement. [4]
It was plain, thought the dwarf, that he had come there, on behalf of his friend, to cajole or frighten the old man out of some small fraction of that wealth of which they supposed him to have an abundance. [12]
Some days later this same correspondent wrote: I have spoken of the vast and almost fabulous wealth of this region--it is incredible. [5]
So absorbed were they in the pursuit of wealth, of distraction, so satisfied with the current philosophy, so intent on surrounding themselves with beautiful things and thus shutting out the sterner view, that they had grown heedless of the divine message. [9]
What they got they could keep; wealth could accumulate. [4]
In that June there were vexatious strikes in various parts of the country, formidable combinations of laboring-men, demonstrations of trades-unions, and the exhibition of a spirit that sharply called attention to the unequal distribution of wealth. [4]
They would see then how little she had cared for the splendor and wealth of empire; why, he himself knew how quickly everything was forgotten in Alexandria. [10]
The more obscure their theories, the more were they overloaded with image and metaphor; all simplicity of statement was lost, and yet the disputants prided themselves on the brilliancy of their language and the wealth of their ideas. [10]
She thoroughly realized the wrong he had done Sonya, felt herself to blame toward her, and imagined that her wealth had influenced Nicholas' choice. [2]
In fifty years the wealth of these people would have passed into other hands. [6]
A million is the unit of wealth, now and here in America. [6]
The next morning the sun poured a wealth of radiant light upon the desert, the green water of the harbour, and the gray and yellow walls of the border fortress. [10]
From Holdfast over the spruces to Sawanec in the blue distance he was lord, a domain the wealth of which could not be reckoned in the coin of Midas. [9]
That you become the sole inheritor of the wealth of this rich old hunks, that you and I spend it together, and that you get into the bargain a beautiful young wife. [12]
It couldn't be the sledge, the dogs, the harpoons, the boat, the bone fish-hooks and needles, and such things--no, these were not wealth. [5]
It is not the sight of a Peter Cooper and his wealth that discontents him, nor the intellectual pursuits of the scholar who uses the leisure his fortune gives him for the higher pleasures of the mind. [4]
Apparently, nearly all the river towns, big and little, have made up their minds that they must look mainly to railroads for wealth and upbuilding, henceforth. [5]
You have become the possessor of wealth. [2]
Vast wealth, to the person unaccustomed to it, is a bane; it eats into the flesh and bone of his morals. [5]
Behind us, on the opposite shore, set round about with a wealth of foliage, was the Castle of Rheinstein, a fortress more pleasing in its proportions and situation than any other. [4]
She was all the more indignant when, soon after, Barbara gave half the new wealth to the Prebrunn town clerk to distribute among the poor journeymen potters whose huts had been burned down the previous night. [10]
The allotting of the measure of wealth would not be difficult to the socialists, because they would insist that every person should be born with an equal amount of property. [4]
To her father the loss of his house, nay, perhaps of his wealth, would seem almost unendurable, yet even were he beggared, provision was made for him and his daughter. [10]
She sprang from the litter and alighted on the ground with both feet at once, clung firmly to the door, and haughtily flung back her head, crowned with a wealth of dark locks. [10]
In nothing were the increasing wealth and extravagance of the period more shown than in apparel. [4]
It is still the home of wealth. [4]
Next came Plutus, the god of Wealth, followed by Freiberg miners bearing large specimens of silver ore in buckets and baskets; and, lastly, Mars, the god of War, leading by a long chain two camels on which rode captive and fettered Turks. [10]
The "Nachrichten" made the fortune of its first owner, who built himself a fine house out of it, and retired to enjoy his wealth. [4]
At first, in the excitement and the confusion, amid the debris of so much possible wealth, Mavick kept a sort of position, and did not immediately feel the pinch of vulgar poverty. [4]
But at last the descending sun warned me to give up the quest, and I turned homeward laden with wealth. [5]
Toward the end the darkness lifted from Sally's ruined mind for a moment, and he said: "Vast wealth, acquired by sudden and unwholesome means, is a snare. [5]
Good gracious, it's the country to pile up wealth in! [5]
Railroads, corporations absorbing the chief business of the community, combined and inherited wealth, with all the subtle and intricate questions they breed, had not yet come in--and so the professional agents and the equipment which they require were not needed. [7]
Where now was the burthen of great wealth which had hung about his heels and hindered his running freely? [10]
If thrift and the ability to gain wealth be qualities for a hero, Jethro had them--in those days. [9]
You have shown that you are a man who does not fear death, and who can render good service, and you might now enjoy your wealth in peace with your wife. [10]

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