3036 examples of fortunate in sentences

Higher up the hill, perchance, grow also Blackberries, John's-Wort, and neglected, withered, and wiry June-Grass How fortunate that it grows in such places, and not in the midst of the rank grasses which are annually cut!

"We have been fortunate in our investments, and you have used but little of your ample income.

Pius IX was hardly more fortunate; to him also this fatal war brought dishonor and exile, the loss of the affection of his subjects, and of the admiration of the civilized world.

"Will you point it out to me, should we be so fortunate as to encounter one this evening?" Again Grace laughed and nodded her head.

"Well, it is fortunate that there are some people who are not quite as weak-minded as some other people.

The King of Saragossa was more fortunate.

Evidently, the speaker, whom Max decided must be Robert Chase, and no other, supposed the persons approaching, and whose voices he had heard, must be woods guides who might consider themselves fortunate indeed to earn such a royal sum so easily.

And after all you are among the fortunate ones.

It was fortunate that that revolt was captained by a man of Francisco Madero's typea man who knew how to win the world's sympathy for his cause and how to make his subordinates merit that sympathy by their observance of the rules of civilized warfare.

"He was never a fortunate man.

She was one of those fortunate persons who never see themselves as others see them, but move through existence surrounded by a halo, or a haze, of self-complacency, through which their perception cannot penetrate.

Robert Boylethe Fortunate Blue Coat Boyand the like.

Miss Williams told me, that the only other time she was fortunate enough to be in Dr. Johnson's company, he asked her to sit down by him, which she did, and upon her enquiring how he was, he answered, 'I am very ill indeed, Madam.

If he accomplished anything in three weeks he would consider himself fortunate.

The line of retreat, predetermined by the enemy, placed him in the fortunate position that the further he marched the more food he got, the softer bed, more ammunition, and the moral comfort of his big naval guns that he fought to a standstill and then abandoned.

She had yet to learn, that it is better sometimes not to settle in one's heart what we shall speak, for the Everlasting Will has good works ready prepared for us to walk in, by what we call fortunate accident; and it shall be given us in that day and that hour what we shall speak.

"Oh, I am sure his attentions were exclusive," cried the sister; "indeed, he told us that nothing but want of time prevented his being deeply in lovehe had even the audacity to tell Denbigh it was fortunate for me he had never seen you, or I should have been left to lead apes.

It was fortunate indeed for the Allied cause that he held such important Staff appointments during the most critical periods of the war.

Fortunate was Dante that he worshipped her afar, that he never knew her well enough to be undeceived, and so walked through life in love with love, sensitive, saintly, sweetly sad and most divinely happy in his melancholy.

It was fortunate that Tweaty could fly, but unfortunate that Nibbles could not.

" "It is fortunate, Bob, though you mention it with a smile.

Joseph is one of the most interesting characters of the Bible, one of the most fortunate, and one of the most faultless.

Greenleaf worked assiduously upon his landscapes, and, notwithstanding the pressure in the money-market, was fortunate enough to dispose of them to gentlemen whose incomes were not affected by the vicissitudes of business.

We have said that it was fortunate for him that he came upon an age when our language was at its best; but it was fortunate also for us, because our costliest poetic phrase is put beyond reach of decay in the gleaming precipitate in which it united itself with his thought.

We have said that it was fortunate for him that he came upon an age when our language was at its best; but it was fortunate also for us, because our costliest poetic phrase is put beyond reach of decay in the gleaming precipitate in which it united itself with his thought.

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