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Well-connected

adjective

Connected by blood or close acquaintance with people of wealth or social position.

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"Well-connected" Quotes from Famous Books

... if their C.O. or his wife has influence! The Armity will always send a well-connected F.S. corps out to help a guard battalion in a small campaign. Otherwise F.S. corps make their own arrangements about camps. You see, the Military Areas are always open. They can 'heef' there (and gamble on head-money) as long as their finances ...

— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling

... and well-connected account of the six centuries of Turkish growth, conquest, and decline, interwoven with summary views of institutions, national characteristics, and causes of success and failure. It embodies also the results ...

— Records of a Girlhood • Frances Anne Kemble

... Pat did not get on well with them, and he had found it quite impossible to keep a dog for the simple reason that Mary insisted on keeping a cat—a most unamiable, belligerent cat at that. He would have made home a hell for any well-connected dog. ...

— The Hollow of Her Hand • George Barr McCutcheon

... by everything," he said, "in your Church. The whole thing appears to be such a well-connected scheme, so unlike the religion in which I was born and educated, where you had to be forever searching after a missing link. And then your Church seems to be founded on love—love of a supernal kind, of course, and almost unintelligible; but it is the golden chain in the string of ...

— My New Curate • P.A. Sheehan