How To Use Croesus In A Sentence
- He has a country mansion and runs a yacht and a private aircraft—he must be as rich as Croesus.
- The liberty which we are supposing may be most completely given to them in the form of such a power as is said to have been possessed by Gyges the ancestor of Croesus the Lydian.
- You are aware that my father-once reckoned a Croesus of wealth — became bankrupt a short time previous to his death, and that my mother lived in destitution for some six months after him, unhelped by her aristocratical brothers, whom she had mortally offended by her union with Crimsworth, the — — shire manufacturer. The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
- Most of the regulars seem pretty cool, but this one guy, who uses the name "Croesus," is my favorite. Ana-ng Diary Entry
- “There, Croesus, that is treasure number one; and now run through the rest, and count what sums I have in hand, in case I need them.” Cyropaedia
- All of Bushco, indicted, imprisoned, or nothing, will be rich beyond Croesus, which is what Bush and Cheney already are. Think Progress » Senior Administration Officials Could Be Charged With Criminal Conspiracy
- The European traveller from the States, who is not a Croesus, speedily finds himself reduced to a chronic state of self-conscious sordidness by the hordes of cringing robbers who clutter his steps from dawn till dark, and deplete his pocket-book in a way that puts compound interest to the blush. THE DESCENT
- Rich as Croesus, half of northern Italy in his clientship, a king inside the borders of his own lands. The First Man in Rome
- He's said to be as rich as Croesus and as reclusive as a stylite, and that's all anyone knows of him. Red dust
- At this time Croesus was the master and tribute-exactor of the Asiatic Greeks, whose contingents seem to have formed part of his army for the expedition now contemplated; an army consisting principally, not of native Lydians, but of foreigners. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01