78 Metaphors for fortune

And wishe your fortunes like your valure be The best of everye lived posterytie.

What on earth should I want to see her for?" "I wish I had the good fortune to be a mother.

It was a place of importance under various Hindu dynasties previous to the Muhammadan invasions of India, but its chequered fortunes down to the beginning of the sixteenth century are the usual tale of siege and capture by Hindu or Mussulman, and possess little historical interest.

During the fifteen days which they spent at Bologna a number of the people of the town went to see them, and especially to see "the wife of the duke," who, it was said, knew how to foretell future events, and to tell what was to happen to people, what their fortunes would be, the number of their children, if they were good or bad, and many other things (Fig. 370).

Attention has been called before to the fact that it was Morse's good fortune to have been an eye-witness of many events of historic interest.

The Rev. James Boyer was the Upper Master; but the Rev. Matthew Field presided over that portion of the apartment, of which I had the good fortune to be a member.

Fortune, though she smile to-day, Fickle is and will not stay, But true-love changeth never.

Lady Sue's fortune was the one aim of his life, for it he had worked and striven, and lied: he would not even contemplate a future without it, now that his plans had brought him so near the goal.

My fortune was, mongst manie others moe, To be partaker of their common woe; And my weake bodie, set on fire with griefe, 15 Was rob'd of rest and naturall reliefe.

Had he not had the good fortune to be such a great success in his own profession, what an admirable actor the man would have made!

Earthly fortune was thy dower, Lofty lineage, ample might, Ah, too early lost, thy flower Withered by untimely blight!

That fortune be to all that injure her. Love.

Fortune is so much the Pursuit of Mankind, that all Glory and Honour is in the Power of a Prince, because he has the Distribution of their Fortunes.

Cela n'empêche pas de faire fortune is more modern and better French.

Fortune is a thing out of the question with a young man of your expectations."

Why, how now, Frankby Fortune, the Rogue is MaudlinSo, ho, ho, so ho.

Your palace is on fireyour wife is arrestedyour fortune is wreckedbase,

They had the good fortune to be rebels as well as fanatics; but the reforming clergy having, after 1580, allied themselves heartily with the people against the king and nobles, increased as patriots the influence they exerted as priests.

why so; good fortune to my friends As for my foes, even such shall be their ends.

I faintly hoped that my fortune would be such "Money!"

This good fortune was the discovery of a copy of General Lee's orders of march for the army, in which his whole plan was revealed.

'An' all the while, fortunes is madepiles is maderight under our noses.

"It was easy to see that; when I mentioned regretfully that the good fortune that brought me where there is plenty; to eat should have been the cause of your being in disfavor, she stopped me short."

The fluctuating fortunes of the gamester,his losses or gains,were equally a source of suffering to herself.

The fortunes of the family of Anghera were the reverse of opulent at that period of its history, and the sons obtained careers under the patronage of Count Giovanni Borromeo.

78 Metaphors for  fortune