He has erected a great industry andamassed a large fortune.
He was the president of a great bank and amassed wealth.
All this was done with the idea that when he had amassed a considerable sum he would enjoy himself like a rich man.
Boehme had finished his theological studies at the University of Tuebingen, and Adler had amassed some twenty thousand thalers.
Theatres multiplied in London, theatrical companies grew prosperous, and such men as Shakespeare, Merle and the Burbages amassed wealth.
Benjamin Richards, of Pittsburgh, amassed a large fortune running a butchering business, buying by contract droves of cattle to supply the various military posts of the United States.
Negroes employed on vessels as servants to the travelling public amassed large sums received in the form of tips.
Then came Stephen Smith who amassed a large fortune as a lumber merchant and with him Whipper, Vidal and Purnell.
There were the Williams' most of whom confined themselves to their trade of bricklaying and amassed considerable wealth.
Then the scoundrelly sham minister said in secret to the king, "Though I have given you every day five hundred dinars, nevertheless, by the favour of your Highness, I have amassed fifty millions of gold pieces.
We see you rejoicing in that which ye have amassed for others and shutting out yourselves from the worlds which naught except My guarded Tablet can reckon.
Those men who, having amassed the vanities and ornaments of the earth, have turned away disdainfully from God—these have lost both this world and the world to come.
He amassed immense wealth, but dying childless, it went to distant relations, for whom he could have felt no tenderness.
At the end of this period, he was called to the bar, having then amassed a store of law sufficient to qualify him at once to step upon the bench.
The estimation they were in, may be judged from the magnificence of the temple of Delphi, and the immense riches amassed in it through the superstitious credulity of nations and monarchs.
The Phœnicians took advantage of this ignorance; and, by bartering some wares of little value for this precious metal, they amassed infinite wealth.
But the evidence which has been amassed during the past forty years leaves no doubt that there is a limit to individual variability which neither time nor skill avail to remove.
He amassed considerable wealth in his trade, sufficient to enable him to gratify the wish, so common among his countrymen, of adding a territorial designation to his name.
From a very humble origin he rose to the highest honours of the state, and amassed enormous wealth by peculation and plunder of the country which he should have served.
As St. Simon expresses it, "he had amassed mountains of gold.
I am, of all that I have amassed at the price of so much pain, so much danger!
By keeping the district school for a summer term, she had amassed the sum of twelve dollars.
They had heard of the treasures amassed in the palace of the Tuileries: they sighed when they thought of the lack of bullion in their green and beautiful country.
Although he had been loaded with his favours, and had, thanks to him, amassed a great fortune (Cicero, Epist.
He was a native of Brusa, andamassed a considerable sum of money.
He has amassed great wealth; has establishments in almost every harbour of the Red Sea; and is adored by his sailors and soldiers for his great liberality.
It is not without reason that the admirable Blepsias has pupils as the sand of the sea in number, and has amassed wealth from this excellent wisdom of his, beyond all that was acquired by Gorgias or Protagoras.
And having pursued his profession of sophist at Messene and at Larissa in Thessaly, and having amassed a considerable fortune, he returned to Athens.
The erection of Mount Pleasant was begun late in 1761 by John Macpherson, a sea captain of Clunie, Scotland, who amassed a fortune and lost an arm in the adventurous practice of privateering.
As a merchant and in numerous other private enterprises, Colonel Coultas amassed a substantial fortune.
He had amassed much wealth, and was in the prime of life when, in January, 1821, he returned to his early home, to revive his old brigand life under the name of legitimate warfare.
He owes this partly to the numerous ramifications of his family, partly to his reputation as a hereditary robber, and also to the wealth he has amassed in his vocation.
The vast wealth of the Visconti amassed during their years of peaceful occupation always stood them in good stead when bad times came, and when the Emperor was short of cash.
Geoffrey Ford proposed to follow the beggar, as he amassed his fortune, and to show what he did with his fortune, when he once had gained it.
It was to be the story of a beggar, of a man who asked for alms in the streets, and who, by the exercise of certain arts, which verged upon the marvellous, amassed a fortune.
In these circles no one marries till he has amassed a certain sum of money.
After that, Sindbad amassed treasure by pelting apes with pebbles, who threw back at him cocoanuts, which he sold for money.
These Van Claes had amassed fortunes, played a part in politics, and had suffered many vicissitudes in the course of history without losing their place in the mighty bourgeois world of commerce.
After that he was carried before King Mirjan, who entreated him kindly, and when he had amassed wealth, returned by ship to Bussorah, and so to Baghdad.
The mess of honey amassed by the Anthophora will thus pass through the hands of three owners and remain finally the property of the weakest of the three.
Here is a strange thing: this apparatus, in which the hoard of honey amassed by the Anthophora is to be engulfed, is similar in every respect to that of the adult Sitaris, who possibly never takes food.
Le Tellier, who amassed great wealth, left two sons, one the famous statesman Louvois and another who became archbishop of Reims.
The wealth he amassed from the Congo he spent, no doubt, royally not only in this way but also on public improvements in Belgium; but he had a hard heart towards the natives of his distant possession.
