The aborigines must have been also depressed, owing to our vicinity, though if they had known what wealth we possessed, they might have freely parted with their goats and fowls for our wares.
A wealth of plantains surrounded it, and Indian corn, tobacco, beans, and tomatoes were plentiful.
A suspicion that these were among the confederation of tribes who hemmed in the poor anxious governor of Equatoria also crept into our minds, as we looked upon this huge display of numbers and evidence of wealth and security.
He was quite conscious that, in the trade of the writer, wealth was only to be achieved by the successful playwright.
This growth in wealthand territory was not without its effects on the outward appearance of the state religion.
The engineer was persuaded that far richer deposits of mineral wealth than had yet been detected, would be found in a new shaft that had been commenced under his operations.
We are rather a lazy people after the age of childhood, and do not like undergoing more cares than we can help, and great wealth does give its owner many cares.
The surplus wealth on this special community was chiefly agricultural.
Are there many sons among you who think the inheritance of vast wealth would be a great trouble and affliction?
Owing to this absence of competition, and the limit placed on the population, it is difficult for a family to fall into distress; there are no hazardous speculations, no emulators striving for superior wealth and rank.
His diction is perfect, his wealth of imagery exhaustless; I have seen him sway a vast audience as a wheat-field is swayed by the wind.
Spring in Palestine is wonderful; in addition to the wealth of flowers, the oranges and lemons were delicious.
But Love is too despis'd a name, And must not hope to rise Above these ties; Honour and Wealth outshine his paler flame; These unite souls, whilst true desire Unpitied dies in its own fire.
Then know, Bellama, since thou aim'st at wealth Where Fortune has bestowed her largest dealth, That wealth may puff a clod of earth like leaven, But virtuous want alone ensouleth heaven.
Honour is tied unto the prince's eye And wealth to Fortune's mutability.
Let no tears or offerings move thee, All those cunning charms avoid; 20 For that wealth for which they love thee, They would slight if once enjoy'd.
They whom the rising blood tempts not to taste, Preserve a stock of love can never waste; When easy people who their wish enjoy, Like prodigals at once their wealth destroy.
A ball, was robbed of all his wealth and joined the proletariat.
She is transmuting her industrial wealth into the education of her workmen, so that unskilled people shall have no place in American life, so that all men shall bring mind and soul to the control of matter.
Amid this wealth of gods, earthly and heavenly, human, animal, and divine, an Egyptian might well feel puzzled to make a choice.
Covering nearly as much ground as the greatest of the pyramids, and containing equally enormous blocks of stone, the Theban palace-temples unite a wealth of varied ornamentation almost unparalleled among the edifices erected by man.
The wealth of the nobles increases, and the position of their dependents is improved.
And I should have to approve of thewealth of Labienus and Mamurra and the gardens and Tusculan estate of Balbus.
Yet I see Rome will soon be crammed with loyalists, I mean with men of wealth and fortune, crammed full, when the towns have been abandoned.
Nor can one look into the magazines devoted to gardens and houses and house-furnishings and fail to appreciate the increasing wealthof the beautiful in environment.
Wealth might be acquired by 'luck,' but proper cultivation was the birthright of every child born of cultivated parents.
The favorite and most elaborate of these, but possible only to parents of considerable wealth and wide social acquaintance, is a ball.
He then went and took the three Princesses whom he had betrothed to himself and his brothers, also the wealth of the Red, Black and White giants.
On his deathbed he called his son, saying: "You see, my son, I have accumulated so great wealth that even princes have not as much.
We fell in love with her, and thereafter spent all our wealth to see her over and over again.
Once upon a time there was a man who inherited much wealth from his father, but who led such an irregular and unwise life that in a short time he had spent everything, even to the last penny.
Thus the maidens were the owners of their wealth and property.
They collected all the wealth of the Invulnerable Giant, and mounting the horse of lightning, began to proceed toward the East.
However, I will take nothing from your wealth and property, but let us divide your wives between us.
A rich merchant of the city of Bagdad had accumulated great wealth and property.
Then he sent out heralds, proclaiming that he would give great wealth to the man who killed the dragon.
He gave forty gold coins to see the World's Beauty from behind the glass, and after that spent all his wealth and merchandise for her sake.
Should we not then seek His rich salvation, and take the wealth the Saviour went through such deep poverty to win for us?
It was a wonderful thing to do, for it was not only that He gave up home and comfort and wealth for poor people, but for those who cared nothing for Him, even for His enemies.
The peace and rest and joy He gives are riches of untold price, more valuable--infinitely so--than any wealth of earth.
Are your graspings at wealth and power, your anxieties to attain the favor of the great--and by these means an increase of employments and influence--are these proofs of it?
Honor, wealth and splendor are the toys for which grown children pine; but which, however accumulated, leave them still disappointed and unhappy.
Ay," said Harry; "with such enormous and inexhaustible wealth as this at one's command it should not be very difficult to provide the means of reconquering the country and restoring it to its former state of power and glory.
At the same time Spain was poor and weak, because she had lived for centuries in violation of the principles on which the wealth and strength of nations depend.
From distant regions, a commerce which in Philip's days had become oceanic supplied the crown with as much revenue as could be expected in a period of gross ignorance as to the causes of the true grandeur and the true wealth of nations.
Here was a populous nation in a favoured land, but the foundation of all wealth was sapped by a perverted moral sentiment.
As an inevitable result, the most thriving branch of national industry was that of the professional smuggler, who, in the pursuit of his vocation, did his best to aid Government in sapping the wealth of the nation.
Besides the concentration of a great part of the capital of the country in a very small number of titled families, still another immense portion of the national wealth belonged, as already intimated, to the Church.
A horse and a suit of armour would now hardly enable the fortunate possessor of such advantages to conquer a kingdom, nor can wealth and learning be monopolised in these latter days by a favoured few.
Crown, nobility, and clergy; all the wealth and all that there was of learning, were banded together to suppress the democratic principle.
Thus the revenues of his foreign dominions being nearly consumed by their necessary expenses, the measure of his positive wealthwas to be found in the riches of Spain.
Cordova, the seat of the Ommiades, was scarcely inferior, in point of wealth and magnitude, to its proud rival on the banks of the Tigris.
These two brothers were old bachelors, and afforded a striking instance of the insufficiency of wealth to create happiness.
Seville, which had continued nearly 200 years the seat of a petty kingdom, enjoyed considerable reputation as a place of wealth and commerce.
It was the custom at the time of the Plantagenets, and previously, for ladies of distinction and wealth regularly to distribute money or food to the poor.
In the hope that the eyes of the Caliph might he delighted with this superb display of wealth and workmanship, Saad persuaded the soldiers to relinquish their claims.
The face of the shield is often ornamented in various ways, according to the wealth or fancy of the owner.
Professor Craig, from his many responsible positions in the horticultural world, had acquired a wealth of information which was always at the disposal of his friends and students.
I thank you for the interest you take in us; but we are resolved to enter the castle this very night, and we would not abandon our intention for all the wealth of the world.
Will he consecrate his life exclusively to love, to Ximena, to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the luxuries which his wealth can procure for him?
At length her wealth became a positive embarrassment to her.
The wealth of Carthage enabled her to raise huge armies of mercenary soldiers and to build warships which in size, number, and equipment surpassed those of any other Mediterranean state.
There were millions of men for the armies and untold wealth in the royal treasuries.
This arrangement did away with favoritism and helped to give the poor man a chance in politics, as well as the man of wealth or noble birth.
The Mongol ruler, who seems to have been anxious to introduce Christianity and European culture among his people, received them in a friendly manner, and they amassed much wealth by trade.
As the monasteries increased in wealth through gifts of land and goods, they sometimes became centers of idleness, luxury, and corruption.
And in this age, as in all epochs of exploration, adventurers sought in distant lands opportunities to acquire wealthand fame and power.
The possession of that great capital would greatly increase Venetian trade and influence in the East; for the crusading nobles it held out endless opportunities of acquiring wealth and power.
Town life still wore a medieval look, but the increase of wealth gradually introduced many new comforts and luxuries.
A native of Arpinum, the same Italian town which had already given birth to Marius, Cicero came to Rome a youth without wealth or family influence.
Wealth brought leisure, bred a taste for luxury and the refinements of life, and gave means for the gratification of that taste.
With the pilgrims and missionaries went hard-headed traders, who brought back to Europe the wealth of the East.
The wealth and prosperity of the country visibly declined, and all patriotic feeling disappeared in the hatreds engendered by a civil war.
As the first simple-minded puppet gave his wealth to the arch deceiver, Pappina cried out: "Don't give it to him!
Looking into the unfathomable depths of those great velvet eyes, the captain would have refused the wealth of Croesus had she offered it.
He had by no means abandoned all his shares in the diamond-mines; but having wealth at command, he had determined to carry out the first purpose for which he had come to South Africa.
He was a man of great intelligence, and knew well that no readier mode to wealth had ever presented itself to him than the purchase of his partner's shares.
In "The Fighting Chance" Mr. Chambers has taken for his hero, a young fellow who has inherited with his wealth a craving for liquor.
She drew a great breath and straightened her body with a consciousness of its strength and wealth of life.
I would rather be the poor working girl I am than the gilded toy your wealth would make me--and besides, you wear made ties!
Despite the wealth of place-names and the strongly accentuated configuration which the nomenclature expresses, Seriland is one of the most hopeless deserts of the American hemisphere.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wealth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
