1. Particularly the prosperous merchants and bankers, whose taxes paid for the police.

2. For the prosperous merchants, substantial timber-framed houses were built around the gates of the Castle and Priory.

3. The absence of a prosperous merchant class meant that Sheffield had few fine houses or public buildings.

4. Both his parents came from prosperous merchant and landowning families.

5. Natlie Henry encountered Berel as a devout prosperous merchant.

6. Milton's father was a prosperous merchant, despite the fact that he had been disowned by his family when he converted from Catholicism to Protestantism.

7. Lineage member Wang Mingyu, also known as Guojen, emigrated to Japan in 1868, and became a prosperous merchant in Kobe.

8. Lemore had changed out of her septa's robes into garb more befitting the wife or daughter of a prosperous merchant.