"He is as black as a man can conveniently be.

He is very wealthy; some say that he is worth half a million of dollars.

He owns, to my certain knowledge, one hundred brick houses.

I met him the other day in a towering rage: it appears, that he owns ten thousand dollars' worth of stock, in a railroad extending from this to a neighbouring city.

Having occasion to travel in it for some little distance, he got into the first-class cars; the conductor, seeing him there, ordered him out--he refused to go, and stated that he was a shareholder.