"I am through with any more essays on the affluence of Base Ball 'magnates.'

All this prospective affluence in the sunken, boulder-choked flood-bed of a mountain-stream!

And a wife must be vicious indeed, and a reflection upon a man's own choice, who, for the sake of change, and where there are no qualities to seduce, nor affluence to corrupt, will run so many hazards to injure her husband in the tenderest of all points.

Did they suffer the queen of Hungary to be oppressed, only to show their own power and affluence by relieving her? or can it be imagined, that pity has prevailed over policy or cowardice?

I lived upon my wages and preserved jealously all that I had saved during my years of comparative affluence at Portsmouth.

I loved to spend on scent and toilette knick-knacks as much as would keep a poor man's family in affluence for ten months; and I smiled at the fashionable sunlight in the Park, the dusty cavalcades; and I loved to shock my friends by bowing to those whom I should not bow to.

He never imagines that there may be greatness without safety, affluence without content, jollity without friendship, and solitude without peace.