Lots of people, wealthy or not, would take advantage of a situation like that.
They'd pulled similar scams on other wealthy men, mostly in the mortal world, outside the view of immortals who might see them.
They wore tuxedos and ball gowns like wealthy celebrities attending an exclusive Hollywood party.
There were wide eighteenth- century ball gowns, women in little black dresses, one in a fifties poodle skirt, and several in dark dresses with ornate brocade on the bodice, like that of wealthy Middle Age royalty.
Why would a good looking wealthy man want to marry an Arkansas hick – and move here?
She wouldn't be buried in the ethereal silks of the wealthy or have her hair inlaid with flowers and perfumes.
In the same direction lies the old and wealthy abbey of Tepl, founded in 1193.
Oh Carmen, just because he's wealthy doesn't mean he's a preppie.
How did Rob know Felipa had a wealthy father?
"Come in and close the door, boy," the wealthy woman directed.
It is now a centre of the trade in Malwa opium, with a wealthy colony of Bohra merchants.
Interest was rarely charged on advances by the temple or wealthy landowners for pressing needs, but this may have been part of the metayer system.
But the laws have not been rigorously enforced of late years; and the ecclesiastical possessions seized by the state were thrown on the market simultaneously, and so realized very low prices, being often bought up by wealthy religious institutions.
As soon as the men of the various regiments began to disperse among the wealthy and deserted houses, the army was lost forever and there came into being something nondescript, neither citizens nor soldiers but what are known as marauders.
The armory was not the collection of a wealthy connoisseur; this was the personal armory of a man accustomed to killing often.
While Fred was outside picking a boutonniere for the occasion, his now marginally wealthy flame of fame—locally at least— called a second time.
He knew Tim to be wealthy, but he could fit a good chunk of his militia in the house alone.
To a Medena heir who is wealthy in his own right.
Surely it wasn't enough to make a difference for the daughter of such a wealthy man.
Born to a wealthy merchant family, she'd been disowned when it became known what kind of deformed child she bore.
Yet this eminent, this superior personage was an habitual drunkard, an uncouth savage who intruded upon the hospitality of wealthy foreigners, and was not ashamed to seize upon any dish he took a fancy to, and send it home to his wife.
ABRAHAM TUCKER (1705-1774), English moralist, was born in London, of a Somerset family, on the 2nd of September 1705, son of a wealthy city merchant.
It was one of the oldest cities of Etruria, but does not appear in history till the Roman colonization of 247 B.C., and was never of great importance, except as a resort of wealthy Romans, many of whom (Pompey, the Antonine emperors) had villas there.
It may be assumed that the social corruption in Jerusalem was such as is usually found in wealthy communities, made bolder in this case, perhaps, by the political unrest and the weakness of the royal government under Zedekiah.
The costume of the Tosks differs from that of the Ghegs; its distinctive feature is the white plaited linen fustanella or petticoat, which has been adopted by the Greeks; the Ghegs wear trews of white or crimson native cloth adorned with black braid, and a short, close-fitting jacket, which in the case of wealthy persons is embellished with gold lace.
Of France, and he was obliged to leave the enterprise of South American discoveries to his wealthy nobles.
CAMILLO PORZIO (1526-1580?), Italian historian, belonged to a wealthy and noble Neapolitan family, and was the son of the philosopher, Simone Porzio.
Plebeian handicrafts assert their right to be represented on an equality with learned professions and wealthy corporations.
Was able before his death in 1455 to secure the modern status of the pontiff as a splendid patron and a wealthy temporal potentate.
The Roman army (20,000 men) was commanded by General Rosselli, and included, besides Garibaldis red-shirted legionaries, volunteers from all parts of Italy, mostly very young men, many of them wealthy and of noble family.
The celebrated Gascoigne's powder, which was sold as late as the middle of the 19th century in the form of balls like sal prunella, consisted of equal parts of crabs' eyes," the black tips of crabs' claws, Oriental pearls, Oriental bezoar and white coral, and was administered in jelly made of hart's horn, but was prescribed by physicians chiefly for wealthy people, as it cost about forty shillings per ounce.
1522) of Snitterfield, Warwickshire, a wealthy grazier.
The earl was a great gambler, but he was wealthy enough also to spend money on improving his house at Althorp, which he beautified both within and without.
But then, maybe things weren't that different for wealthy people.
And as soon as the enemy drew near the wealthy classes went away abandoning their property, while the poorer remained and burned and destroyed what was left.
They went away without thinking of the tremendous significance of that immense and wealthy city being given over to destruction, for a great city with wooden buildings was certain when abandoned by its inhabitants to be burned.
But despite all these measures the men, who had till then constituted an army, flowed all over the wealthy, deserted city with its comforts and plentiful supplies.
Some become so wealthy, in fact, they can live off the interest (the productivity) of their assets, not just their own labor.
It is contagious and would be even in a uniformly wealthy world.
The rising prosperity of wealthy nations and the emergence of more wealthy nations.
The conversation was on the chief topic of the day: the illness of the wealthy and celebrated beau of Catherine's day, Count Bezukhov, and about his illegitimate son Pierre, the one who had behaved so improperly at Anna Pavlovna's reception.
He may already have found a suitable and wealthy match, and now he's half crazy.
