These mentioned good fortunes and change of prospects had almost brought my mind over to the extreme the very opposite to despair.

You seem to be taking up splendid schemes of fortune only to lay them down again; and your fortunes are an ignis fatuus that has been conducting you in thought from Lancaster Court, Strand, to somewhere near Matlock; then jumping across to Dr. Somebody's, whose son's tutor you were likely to be; and would to God the dancing demon may conduct you at last in peace and comfort to the "life and labours of a cottager"!

I rejoice in your good fortunes.

The king, shocked with this appearance of ingratitude in his favourite child, desired her to consider her words, and to mend her speech, lest it should mar her fortunes.

Our ages are perfectly suitable, our disposition entirely consonant, our habits so similar as to obviate all unpleasant changes, and our fortunes precisely what they ought to be to render a marriage happy, with confidence on one side, and gratitude on the other.

I read it because I want to bring home to you all an issue that goes beyond our own personal fortunes here.

This I have done; and to the greatest king The world can boast, my fortunes are united, To Jemshíd, the most perfect of mankind.

Yet what a fruitful and prosperous work had hitherto been that estate of Chantebled, whose overflowing fertility increased at each successive harvest; and that mill too, so enlarged and so flourishing, which was the outcome of his own inspiring suggestions, to say nothing of the prodigious fortunes which his conquering sons had acquired in Paris!

Parson Jones had now taken charge of him and his fortunes, and Tom did not have to go back to the fisherman's hut.

CHAPTER II VARYING FORTUNES Mr. Heatherbloom's new-found employment proved but ephemeral.

His fortunes had not been enhanced materially by his brief excursion into the realms of melody; he had thirty cents in cash and a "dollar-and-a-half appetite."

To clothe my wretched skin;" she didn't even offer to tell our fortunes, but passed timidly by.

They may as soon expect comfort and consolation from him that lies racked with the gout and the stone, as from a Divine thus broken and shattered in his fortunes!

They were superstitious, social, and quarrelsome, bent on conquest, and migrated from country to country with a view of improving their fortunes.

The proudest nobles, with the armor and horses of chivalry, embark with artisans and miners for another voyage, now without solicitude or fear, but with unbounded hopes of wealth,especially hardy adventurers and broken-down families of rank anxious to retrieve their fortunes.

This second expedition was undertaken in seventeen vessels, carrying fifteen hundred people, all full of animation and hope, and some of them with intentions to settle in the newly discovered country until they had made their fortunes.

But all came to better their fortunes.

During the last two years we have made great fortunes.

[Sidenote: euer happy on] on Fortunes Cap, we are not the very Button.

[Sidenote: Fortunes lap,] Ham.

The destinies of the human race must complete the work ... for upon this will depend not only a speculative good but all the fortunes of mankind and all their power."

The only thing that may better his fortunes is an art he has to make a gentlewoman, wherewith he baits now and then some rich widow that is hungry after his blood.

Charles, indeed, a second time an exile, solicited[a] them to persevere; but it was difficult to persuade men to hazard their lives and fortunes without the remotest prospect of benefit to themselves or to the royal cause; and in the month of March Colonel Fitzpatric, a celebrated chieftain in the county of Meath, laid down[b] his arms, and obtained in return the possession of his lands.

Though Marius had given fresh umbrage to the optimates by coming from his triumph (Jan. 1, 104 B.C.) into the Senate wearing his triumphal robes, with the people he was the hero of the hour, and when the storm in the North broke, it was the safest course for Sulla to follow the fortunes of his old commander, who in his turn could not dispense with so able a subordinate.

The fortunes amassed by an Aquillius, a Verres, a Lucullus, spoke as eloquently of Rome's rapacity abroad as did those of Crassus or Sulla in Italy.