"Well-off" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... return my feelings, and I, poor young fool, believed in her. Her mother, who was a cunning old harridan, and greedy and avaricious to a degree, gave us every opportunity of being together. As I spent my money most lavishly on the girl, and they both knew my father was well-off, and I was the only son, they had merely to spread their net for me to ...
— Yorke The Adventurer - 1901 • Louis Becke
... the saying, lady, 'She is a well-off woman that is a rich man's wife.'" "Aye, that she is," answered the wife; "but wherefore opin'st thou so?" "For this," Ailill replied, "that thou art this day better off than the day that first I ...
— The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge • Unknown
... I often noticed about the graves of people who had not been over well-off, and whose friends could not afford a large number of statues or figures of men and animals, was this:—If only one or two monuments were put up by the side of the mound, these invariably consisted of representations either of two horses or else of a horse and a ...
— Corea or Cho-sen • A (Arnold) Henry Savage-Landor
... the language of the messieurs falls among the sweepings, if so many comfortably well-off writers fish for small fry, we, the good Provencals, toward the highest summits, raise the language ...
— Frederic Mistral - Poet and Leader in Provence • Charles Alfred Downer
... indulged in among them whenever disputes arose. They were industrious farmers, though, and the three girls and their mother worked from morning till night, so the farm prospered and the Sizers were reputed to be "well-off." ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation • Edith Van Dyne
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