Few, however, even of the wealthiest merchants in Chinatown, saved anything of value, for their wealth was invested in the Oriental village which had sprung up in the heart of the area burned.
It became one of the wealthiest of central American cities, although it had always a keen commercial rival in Leon, which now surpasses it in size and importance.
But it brought a tremendous return, and its owner soon became one of the wealthiest men in New York.
The turn of the wheel made her the wealthiest woman in the world, and she proceeded without delay to the carrying out of the immense benevolent enterprises which she had doubtless long meditated.
Dardanus had a son, king Erichthonius, who was wealthiest of all men living; he had three thousand mares that fed by the water-meadows, they and their foals with them.
Now” he is an honored and respected citizen and one of thewealthiest men in the state.
He is considered to be one of the wealthiest men in the state and one of the most honorable in his dealings with his fellow men.
He was one of the wealthiest and most benevolent men in the colony.
Thomas Brattle, the forefather of the Brattle family that settled in Boston, was at his death accounted the wealthiest man in the Colony.
He was probably the wealthiestperson in the state of Massachusetts at the commencement of the Revolutionary War.
He was a merchant and had inherited in 1764 a large property from his uncle, Thomas Hancock, one of thewealthiest merchants in Boston.
She replied, ‘I am the daughter of Hemgupt, the wealthiest merchant in the city of Chandrapur; and I was journeying with my husband to his own country, when robbers set upon us and surrounded us.
Chance led that villain hunchback to the city of Chandrapur, where, hearing the name of my master Hemgupt, he recollected that one of his father’s wealthiest correspondents was so called.
Robert Carter, its owner, was the scion of one of the wealthiest and most influential Tidewater families.
Mr. Steires, who on last Friday was the wealthiest man in town, on Sunday was compelled to borrow the dress which clothed his wife.
The entire family of Mr. Howe, the wealthiest man in Cambria, with some visitors from Pittsburgh and Ohio, were hurried to death by the collapse of their residence on that fatal Friday night.
The Sioux Indians, in my opinion, are thewealthiest tribe.
Today Frank Woodring is one of the wealthiest men in northwest Nebraska.
Having brought our story to this point, we now return to trace the course of those events which raised Mr M'Arthur from the humble station in which he began life, to be one of the wealthiest of our colonial merchants.
The great convents were the Abbaye-aux-Bois and Penthemont, where the daughters of the wealthiest and highest families were educated.
Soon after the terrible times of "the Reign of Terror" she found herself one of the most beautiful women in Paris, and her husband one of the wealthiest of bankers.
The royal foundation of Shene priory in Surrey (1414) was the latest and wealthiest of all.
Among these one thousand two hundred, however, the three hundred wealthiest stood out as a separate body; thirty from each tribe.
The Symmories—containing the twelve hundred wealthiest citizens—the three hundred wealthiest leaders of the Symmories.
These three hundred were the wealthiestmen in the city, and were called “the leaders or chiefs of the Symmories.
Since that event, John Brown, with exactly the qualities of a thousand other John Browns, and by just such plodding methods as they used, had prospered wonderfully and become one of the wealthiest John Browns on earth.
On the upper stretch of Fifth Avenue, and on the streets leading off, are the homes of many of New York's wealthiest residents.
This provision of the law brought prosperity to Naucratis; the whole of the commerce of Egypt with the Greek world passed through her docks, and in a few years she became one of the wealthiest emporia of the Mediterranean.
It was a good opportunity to put to ransom one of the wealthiest countries of Africa; so the governor sent to the Cyrenaica all the men and vessels at his disposal.
The progressionist element of the town was much flattered by the presence at its orgies of the wealthiest property owner of the country.
The escort being provided for, we went to the house of Francisco, the most comfortable house in the Pueblo; for Francisco was the wealthiest member of the little community.
The banker made a polite bow to the wealthiestlanded proprietor of the country, in return for which Mr. Conrad bestowed on him a cordial shake of the hand.
The chieftains looked puzzled, for such a question they had not expected to hear from the wealthiest man of the country.
I am proud," Mr. Seicht asseverated, "of the acquaintance of the wealthiest proprietor of the country.
Mr. Walker acquired large personal properties, and became one of the wealthiest men in the state.
Among others he met at Fort Victoria the great Yellow-cum, head chief of the Macaws at Cape Flattery and the wealthiest man of his tribe in slaves and iaquas, the shell money then in circulation there.
In 1768, Mr. James McDonough was one of the wealthiest men in Portsmouth, and the fortunate suitor for the hand of a daughter of Jacob Sheafe, a town magnate.
The church was erected by subscription, and these closely set large windows are due to Henry Sherburne, one of the wealthiest citizens of the period, who agreed to pay for whatever glass was used.
For many years, enjoying the station money gives, we have been called the wealthiest family in the county.
But the Earl of Wessex, already master of the wealthiest part of England, seized district after district for his house.
The settlement of one of the wealthiest among the English Jewries in the very heart of the town indicated, while it promoted, the activity of its trade.
Today he probably is the wealthiest of our dramatists, and a couple of years ago it was estimated that his income could not be less that $3,000 a week.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wealthiest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
