Adjective, : a wealthy person; a wealthy nation. ,a wealthy appearance. ,a novel that is wealthy in its psychological insights. From Dictionary.com.
This sort of people have a certain pre-eminence, and more estimation than labourers and the common sort of artificers, and these commonly live wealthily, keep good houses, and travel to get riches. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
O, of an incredible masse of treasure, a kingly portion, yet, in his coffers remayning: if then he had, (or late) before any warres, seeing no notable taxe, or contribution publike is historically mentioned to haue bene for the charges leuied: if in peace he himselfe flourished so wealthily: O marueilous politicall. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference
Hallecks were not fashionable people, but they lived wealthily: they had. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Instance] Reference
Whether they lived happily ever afterwards is not stated, but they lived, at any rate, "wealthily.". From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography] Reference
Whether they lived happily ever afterwards is not stated, but they lived, at any rate, “wealthily.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of Living]
Manchester City by comparing them to the wealthily backed Sunderland side of the 1950s, who wound up being relegated. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
He put his gold-bowed eye-glasses on the end of his nose and looked over them so wealthily that the summerites were awed and shyly ate their apple-sauce to the last dreg. From Wordnik.com. [The Innocents A Story for Lovers] Reference
But their gold and silver, because they keep it all for this only purpose, they lay it out frankly and freely; as who should live even as wealthily, if they had bestowed it every penny. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Book. Of Warfare] Reference
This sort of people have a certain pre-eminence, and more estimation that labourers and the common sort of artificers, and these commonly live wealthily, keep good houses, and travel to get riches. From Wordnik.com. [Of Degrees of People in the Commonwealth of Elizabethan England. Chapter I. [1577, Book III., Chapter 4; 1587, Book II., Chapter 5] Reference
And like as they quickly, almost at the first meeting, made their own whatsoever is among us wealthily devised: so I suppose it would be long before we would receive anything that among them is better instituted than among us. From Wordnik.com. [The First Book. The First Book of the Communication of Raphael Hythloday, Concerning the Best State of a Commonwealth] Reference
Henry, afterwards knighted, was probably the jealous brother who lived at Chicksands with Dorothy and her father, with whom she had many skirmishes, and who wished in his kind fraternal way to see his sister well – that is to say, wealthily – married. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)] Reference
She was wealthily dressed; she had a jewelled purse that had probably cost at least three thousand dollars; there were jewelled buckles on her patent-leather shoes, that had Chinese-yellow heels; and she was wearing a jade necklace that almost bankrupts me to think about. From Wordnik.com. [Jimgrim]
Unless you think thus: that justice is there executed, where all things come into the hands of evil men; or that prosperity there flourisheth, where all is divided among a few; which few nevertheless do not lead their lives very wealthily, and the residue live miserably, wretched and beggarly. From Wordnik.com. [The First Book. The First Book of the Communication of Raphael Hythloday, Concerning the Best State of a Commonwealth] Reference
Wherefore when I consider with myself and weigh in my mind the wise and godly ordinances of the Utopians, among whom with very few laws all things be so well and wealthily ordered, that virtue is had in price and estimation, and yet, all things being there common, every man hath abundance of everything. From Wordnik.com. [The First Book. The First Book of the Communication of Raphael Hythloday, Concerning the Best State of a Commonwealth] Reference
This form and fashion of a weal public, which I would gladly wish unto all nations, I am glad yet that it hath chanced to the Utopians, which have followed those institutions of life, whereby they have laid such foundations of their commonwealth, as shall continue and last not only wealthily, but also, as far as mans wit may judge and conjecture, shall endure for ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Book. Of the Religions in Utopia] Reference
She admits that she is the one who really isn’t rich, and they are happily, and wealthily, reunited. From Wordnik.com. [Not the Girl Next Door] Reference
Henry, afterwards knighted, was probably the jealous brother who lived at Chicksands with Dorothy and her father, with whom she had many skirmishes, and who wished in his kind fraternal way to see his sister well ” that is to say, wealthily ” married. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54]
Here again if I should rise up, and boldly affirm that all these counsels be to the king dishonour and reproach, whose honour and safety is more and rather supported and upholden by the wealth and riches of his people, than by his own treasures: and if I should declare that the commonalty chooseth their king for their own sake and not for his sake: for this intent, that through his labour and study they might all live wealthily, safe from wrongs and injuries: and that therefore the king ought to take more care for the wealth of his people, than for his own wealth, even as the office and duty of a shepherd is in that he is a shepherd, to feed his sheep rather than himself. From Wordnik.com. [The First Book. The First Book of the Communication of Raphael Hythloday, Concerning the Best State of a Commonwealth] Reference
We would be fabulously wealthily. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2006] Reference
If wealthily, then happily in Padua. From Wordnik.com. [The Taming of the Shrew] Reference
I come to wive it wealthily in Padua. From Wordnik.com. [The Taming of the Shrew] Reference
I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; 64. From Wordnik.com. [Act I. Scene II. The Taming of the Shrew] Reference
642: If wealthily, then happily in Padua. From Wordnik.com. [The Taming of the Shrew (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference
641: I come to wiue it wealthily in Padua. From Wordnik.com. [The Taming of the Shrew (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference
(or late) before any warres, seeing no notable taxe, or contribution publike is historically mentioned to haue bene for the charges leuied: if in peace he himselfe flourished so wealthily: O marueilous politicall, & princely prudencie, in time of peace to foresee, and preuent, (and that most puissantly, and inuinciblly) all possible malice, fraude, force, and mischiefe forrain. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01] Reference
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