forty-thousand-pounder

Updated: December 28, 2024

All her friends put her down as a forty-thousand-pounder. In Brief, she professed to be satisfied with my gentility and Ancient Lineage, though worldly goods I had none to offer her.

George Augustus Sala - The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 : Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave : among the moors...