too-rich

Updated: May 29, 2025

Besides, I prefer the society of you and the stars to that of the miserable too-rich. And they are not alone." "Of course not. They never are. But Mrs. Lenox said yesterday that late this fall, when every one else has gone into winter quarters, she is going to ask you and me and perhaps one or two others to visit her; and we'll have a serene and lovely time."

Alice Ames Winter - Jewel Weed

The overdressed, idle dowagers; the matrons, with their too-gay frocks, their too-full days, their too-rich food; the girls, all crudeness, artifice, all scheming openly for their own advantage, where among them all was happiness?

Kathleen Thompson Norris - Mother