long purse

It was only a long purse which could buy on such a scale as that.

I hope you've got a client with long purse strings."

To the victors went parades, long purses, sometimes political power.

A model came out clutching a long purse styled as an automobile tail fin.

A long memory isn't half as useful as a long purse!

They demanded a buyer with a long purse, for they were fantastically expensive.

They have a long purse which will alternatively purchase help from their friends and treachery from ours.

What is more, savings for college and investments for the future have also pulled at the nation's longest purse strings: those of baby boomers.

The English have always long purses, and it might very well enter into some one's head to deal you an ill blow some night.'

I've a longer purse than that old Australian sheep-herder thinks, and when the time for contest comes, I'll meet him on his own ground."

He produced a long purse, with the greatest coolness, and counted them out on the table and pushed them over to me.

With their long purse and their impudence they'll work their way to the coast, aided by fools and traitors.

Twice Henderson has lashed at folk with his dog-whip, and only his long purse and heavy compensation have kept him out of the courts.

'They said that no criminal laws had ever been known to prevail against cheek and plausibility such as yours, combined with the power of a long purse.

He was a little, pursy, pompous, passionate semicircular somebody, with a red nose, a thick scull, [sic] a long purse, and a strong sense of his own consequence.

He must judge for himself whether he will follow the fashion, by aid either of a long purse or of patient research, or whether he will find out new paths for himself.

When he was young he became a member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long purses and expensive habits.

They were a sullen slouching crowd rudely clad, and they represented probably the poorest of the burghers, who now, as in the middle ages, suffer most in battle, since a long purse means a good horse.

At the following election, 6 January 1835, he was defeated by the longer purse of F. L. Holyoake Goodricke (afterwards Sir F. Goodricke, bart.)

Caderousse, more and more astonished, went toward a large oaken cupboard, opened it, and gave the abbe a long purse of faded red silk, round which were two copper runners that had once been gilt.

I wonder whether posterity will ever muster faith to believe that the grey heads of South Carolina, without a penny in pocket, ventured to war with Great Britain, the nation of the longest purse in Europe?

'These beggarly Italians and Swiss have made such a trade of the matter, and sold themselves so freely, body and soul, to the longest purse, that it is well that we should be nice upon points of honour.

Once well away from the immediate influence of Paris, with all its terrors and tyrannical measures, the means of escape for the prisoners became comparatively easy, thanks primarily to the indomitable pluck of their rescuer and also to a long purse.

In the ensuing conversation, Tuppence is able to obtain the promise of information regarding Jane Finn, Tommy and the mysterious Mr. Brown in exchange for a substantial amount of money out of Julius' long purse.