You see, the only Highnesses they've had to judge by are the fortune-hunters who come over after our girls.

You are not to be told that they are accustomed to put on a gold-lace coat as soon as they arrive upon our shore, and dub themselves fortune-hunters.

With the acuteness which persons who make a sole business of their own interest gain by practice, so that fortune-hunters are often shrewd where real lovers are terribly simple, he fixed at once on the young man up at the school where the girl had been going of late, as probably at the bottom of it.

Her final conclusion, however, was for the future to regard all men as fortune-hunters and to do her hair differently.

She'd show him!the fortune-hunter!

But she rather chooses starving by writing Novels of Intrigue, to teach young Heiresses the Art of running away with Fortune-hunters, and scandalizing Persons of the highest Worth and Distinction.

'A certain young lady was afraid that you were merely a fortune-hunter.

The Fortune-hunters have already cast their Eyes upon her, and take care to plant themselves in her View whenever she appears in any Publick Assembly.

The worst of it is, our Modern Fortune-Hunters are those who turn their Heads that way, because they are good for nothing else.

We must however distinguish between Fortune-Hunters and Fortune-Stealers.

Widows are indeed the great Game of your Fortune-Hunters.

Mr. SPECTATOR, Your Correspondents Letter relating to Fortune-Hunters, and your subsequent Discourse upon it, have given me Encouragement to send you a State of my Case, by which you will see, that the Matter complained of is a common Grievance both to City and Country.

The Arab invaders brought their architects and engineers with them; and it is very possible that some of the earlier mosques were built by prisoners or fortune-hunters from Greece or Italy or Spain.

They've a perfect terror of fortune-hunters, it seems.

Of what she called "society" she cherished an utter contempt, convinced that it consisted of frivolous women and idle menin a word, of heartless coquettes and of fortune-hunters.

FORTUNE, wasting a, iii. 317. FORTUNE-HUNTERS, ii. 131.

I have acted several Parts of Household-stuff with great Applause for many Years: I am one of the Men in the Hangings in the Emperour of the Moon; I have twice performed the third Chair in an English Opera; and have rehearsed the Pump in the Fortune-Hunters.

The Fortune-hunters have already cast their Eyes upon her, and take care to plant themselves in her View whenever she appears in any Publick Assembly.

The worst of it is, our Modern Fortune-Hunters are those who turn their Heads that way, because they are good for nothing else.

We must however distinguish between Fortune-Hunters and Fortune-Stealers.

Widows are indeed the great Game of your Fortune-Hunters.

Mr. SPECTATOR, Your Correspondents Letter relating to Fortune-Hunters, and your subsequent Discourse upon it, have given me Encouragement to send you a State of my Case, by which you will see, that the Matter complained of is a common Grievance both to City and Country.

* There has lately been published one of the most impudent things that ever was printed; it is called "The Irish Register," and is a list of all the unmarried women of any fashion in England, ranked in order, duchesses-dowager, ladies, widows, misses, &c., with their names at length, for the benefit of Irish fortune-hunters, or as it is said, for the incorporating and manufacturing of British commodities.

I do not propose to abridge the liberties of even this army of fortune-hunters.

To keep Clara out of the hands of fortune-hunters, but ostensibly to enable her to pass her first mourning in decent retirement, he had induced her to settle in one of Muñoz's haciendas, a few miles from the city, where he of course had her much to himself.