13556 examples of fortune in sentences

After this she added, "For anything we can tell, the boy's fortune is made by this.

My wild fancy was realised; Miss Havisham was going to make my fortune on a grand scale.

But, at the time, I was lost in the mazes of my good fortune, and thought of nothing else, and as Joe remained firm on the money question, Mr. Jaggers rose to go, giving me a few last instructions for reaching London.

Miss Havisham received me as usual, and I explained to her that I was to start for London on the morrow, and that I had come into a fortune, for which I was more grateful than I could express.

He had held, until recently, as the reward of questionable political services, a contract with the State for its convict labor, from which in a few years he had realized a fortune.

By rare good fortune the eminent specialist was able to start within an hour or two after the receipt of Dr. Price's telegram.

Her sister was rich by right of her birth; if Janet had been fortunate, her good fortune had not been due to any provision made for her by her white father.

Here it is now!" IX A WHITE MAN'S "NIGGER" Carteret fished from the depths of the waste-basket and handed to the general an eighteen by twenty-four sheet, poorly printed on cheap paper, with a "patent" inside, a number of advertisements of proprietary medicines, quack doctors, and fortune-tellers, and two or three columns of editorial and local news.

The fair Greek, as may well be imagined, did not reject this favour of fortune, but accepted the offer of her suitor without hesitation.

Count Felix Patocka, at the commencement of the troubles in Poland, raised a considerable party by the influence of his rank and vast fortune.

The fair Sophia became, the same day, Countess Patocka; and to the charms of beauty and talent, were now added the attractions of a fortune, the extent of which was at that time unequalled in Europe.

All's vain:the singer's heart is cold, Its eye is dim,its fortune told!

But the late Reverend Doctor Robert Douglas, minister of Galashiels, assured the author, that the last time he saw Andrew Gemmells, he was engaged in a game at brag with a gentleman of fortune, distinction, and birth.

The Visconti did not long rule in Verona: about the year 1405, the Veronese placed themselves under the protection of Venice, whose good and ill fortune they partook of, until the period of the French Revolution, when, in 1796, the Venetian Republic ceased to exist.

In October Marian was at Sark, holiday making at the house of Hardy McQuinch's brother, who had recently returned to England with a fortune made in Australia.

What a fortune you would have made at the bar!"

"Nor foes nor fortune take this power away; And is my Abelard less kind than they?"Pope, p. 334.

The following sentences are therefore faulty: "I think myself highly obliged to make his fortune, as he has mine.

"Copying whatever is peculiar in the talk of all those whose birth or fortune entitle them to imitation.

I assure you I administer to the best of my ability the fortune God gave meI spare myself no trouble.

"Won't you cross the poor gipsy's palm with a bit of silver, my pretty gentleman, and she will tell you your fortune and that of your pretty lady?" Kitty uttered a startled cry, and turning they found themselves facing a strong, black-eyed girl.

"What do you think, Kitty, would you like to have your fortune told?" Kitty laughed.

Servius et la fortune.

His fabulous fortune.

His Fortune under his Feet THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN HORN CHAPTER I AN INTRODUCTORY DISASTER

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