“We are all so poor here that when a rich man like your Grace passes everyone tries to rob him,” asserted the older, with unusual eloquence for his race.
— from Vagabonding down the Andes Being the Narrative of a Journey, Chiefly Afoot, from Panama to Buenos Aires by Harry Alverson Franck

Within a few years afterward, the sultan died in a good old age, and as he left no male children, the Princess Buddir al Buddoor succeeded him, and with Aladdin reigned many long years in happiness and prosperity.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

If I was a rich man like your father it would make a difference.”
— from Paul Prescott's Charge by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

"The mere fact that you look on these pocket-change winnings as real money lets you out.
— from Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford A Cheerful Account of the Rise and Fall of an American Business Buccaneer by George Randolph Chester