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  • To have the new-rich knowledge that more money is easily come by lays us further open to a sense of possibility unmarried to risk.

    Magic and Mayhem Derek Leebaert 2010

  • The Portuguese and Spanish, plundering the New World, called upon heaven and a church made new-rich by their exploits to protect trade which their own political and military prowess was unable to monopolize securely.

    Energy and Society~ Chapter 4~ Sail and Trade 2009

  • But should we be demanding greater freedom to invest in the new-rich economies in reciprocity for their freedom to invest in ours?

    A welcome investment 2007

  • We hear how you suck up to the Yankees and the white trash and the new-rich Carpetbaggers to get money out of them.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • We hear how you suck up to the Yankees and the white trash and the new-rich Carpetbaggers to get money out of them.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • We hear how you suck up to the Yankees and the white trash and the new-rich Carpetbaggers to get money out of them.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • We hear how you suck up to the Yankees and the white trash and the new-rich Carpetbaggers to get money out of them.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • We hear how you suck up to the Yankees and the white trash and the new-rich Carpetbaggers to get money out of them.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • I compared this regal dignity with Polykrates 'new-rich showiness, and could see why the Archon had never been without a following, whether he was in or out.

    The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978

  • It was just a rich man's room, and new-rich at that, overfilled with valuables, statues, murals, enamel inlays from Egypt, an easel with a Zeuxis on it.

    The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966

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