die a rich man

Not that I'm particularly well off myself, but my brother died a rich man and it will eventually come to me.

He died a rich man, and never knew it.

But even then, I'd buy these buildings and die a rich man in the cold flat where I was born.

And, like most Cajuns, he never spent his profits and died a rich man.

He died a rich man soon after his father in 1618 and was buried at Fawsley.

He died a rich man in 1898.

He didn't always listen, she said, but if he had, he would have died a rich man.

"You're going to die a rich man, Quint."

Brayton died a rich man but his fortunes were much diminished in the real estate deflation that followed the panic.

Morison died a rich man, and had begun to build the mansion of Cashiobury in Hertfordshire.

Toto's services were evidently valued by the Crown, as he died a rich man, owning among other properties the manor of Ravensbury.

I trust,' he added, turning to Ramage, 'that happy state of affairs will continue; though I've never met a gambler who died a rich man in his old age.'

To him it was not a means of enjoying life, Ramage realized; acquiring it was the whole object of life, as though dying a rich man was the ultimate satisfaction.

Despite repeated citations for recusancy and swingeing fines, he died a rich man, having rooms at the time of his death at the London home of the Earl of Worcester.

He painted banners for religious processions, as well as altarpieces and other pictures, died a rich man, and is supposed by Mariotti to have been the master of Perugino, Pinturicchio, and Andrea di Luigi.

He made his fortune early in his life in the tin mines and revenue farms of Perak, and while lost it all during the Larut Wars, he rebuilt his empire and died a rich man.

At that stage Borrow had not heard of Twm, or the legends surrounding him, but according to the drover Twm Sion Cati was an exceedingly clever thief who died a rich man, mayor of Brecon and loved by everyone who knew him.