"Man of means" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... money by my father—who was a man of means—I determined to spend my leave in London, and there I met the woman who was to prove the ruin of my future. She was the daughter of the woman in whose house I lodged in Chelsea, and was a very handsome, fascinating girl about nineteen. I fell madly in love with her, and she ...
— Yorke The Adventurer - 1901 • Louis Becke
... she was, Miss Morris believed her suitor to be a man of means, and did not doubt ...
— The Erie Train Boy • Horatio Alger
... man of means," said Marianne. "If you need money, you can have it there! And now, once more, leave me to my new life! The past is as if it had never been!—Bonjour, Bonsoir!—and adieu, go!—Give me ...
— His Excellency the Minister • Jules Claretie
... not know what you are going chasing off to America for, Nigel," she commented. "You can't afford it and it is perfectly ridiculous of you to take it upon yourself to travel for pleasure as if you were a man of means instead of being in such a state of pocket that Maria tells me you cannot pay your tailor. Neither the Bishop nor I can do anything for you and I hope you don't expect it. All I can hope is that you know yourself what ...
— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... reticent novelist, was entirely different from the gay, devil-may-care Maltwood, the accomplished linguist, thorough-going cosmopolitan and constant traveller, the easy-going man of means known in society in every ...
— The Doctor of Pimlico - Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime • William Le Queux
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