long purse

noun

1. informal.
   wealth; riches

Example Sentences

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

From Literature

The earl was a great man, with a long purse, and he might yet have his way.

From Project Gutenberg

The opinionative islander turned the still vibrating scale by pulling out a long purse and repeating his original theory, that the whole question was mercantile.

From Project Gutenberg

A wealthy widow who has the command of a long purse more readily falls a prey to the temptations of the world than one who, moving in an humbler sphere of life, has her mind almost wholly engrossed with domestic cares, and the thoughts of a future state of beatitude.

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"Nay, your long purse is not always your short cut to justice, even in Rome," said Mr. Somerville.

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