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Worldly goods   /wˈərldli gʊdz/   Listen
Worldly goods

noun
1.
All the property that someone possess.  Synonyms: worldly belongings, worldly possessions.






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"Worldly goods" Quotes from Famous Books



... ring I thee wed, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of ...
— The Old Gray Homestead • Frances Parkinson Keyes

... and dies in a foreign land; and his parents accept their bereavement like Spartans, almost without mourning, sustained by the religious belief that he has ended his career gloriously. Taught to devote themselves and their children and their worldly goods to the service of their Church, they accept even the impositions and injustices of the Church leaders with a powerful forbearance that is at once a strength ...
— Under the Prophet in Utah - The National Menace of a Political Priestcraft • Frank J. Cannon and Harvey J. O'Higgins

... at once placed myself and my immediate chums on another plane, as far as worldly goods were concerned. We were better off than the mass, and as well off as the most fortunate. It was a curious illustration of that law of political economy which teaches that so-called intrinsic value is largely adventitious. Their possession gave us infinitely more consideration among ...
— Andersonville, complete • John McElroy

... for most persons impracticable, theory in this respect, because his private affairs were prospering. His investments in real estate in Philadelphia had risen greatly in value and in their income-producing capacity since the war, and he was now at least comfortably endowed with worldly goods. ...
— Benjamin Franklin • John Torrey Morse, Jr.

... heart within his bosom, had been much taken by Linda's charms. He already began to entertain an idea that as a Mrs. Neverbend would be a desirable adjunct to his establishment at some future period, he could not do better than offer himself and his worldly goods to the acceptance of Miss Woodward; he therefore said nothing further in disparagement of the family friend; but he resolved that no such alliance should ever induce him to make Mr. Charles Tudor welcome at his house. ...
— The Three Clerks • Anthony Trollope


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