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Sentences starting with fortunate

Fortunate that the barn was darkened, that he might not see how deep the colour mantling in her temples! [9]

Sentences ending with fortunate

Whoever can saunter, with lukewarm blood and lukewarm pleasures, from one decade to another in peace and honor, is fortunate. [10]
There are others which are not so fortunate. [9]
You have been very fortunate. [9]
I am aware that it is said that the culture of the age is itself materialistic, and that its refinements are sensual; that there is little to choose between the coarse excesses of poverty and the polished and more decorous animality of the more fortunate. [4]
He has saved something from the spoils of war, but other veterans I could mention are not so fortunate. [9]
This time, I regret to say, I was not so fortunate. [3]
She traveled all over Palestine, and was always fortunate. [5]
The venerable town of Newbury had another physician who was less fortunate. [3]
Then aloud, "This is fortunate. [5]
And--begging your pardon--it is fortunate. [10]

Short sentences using fortunate

I've been fortunate in investments. [9]
It was very fortunate. [5]
Eliphalet possessed a fortunate temperament. [9]
Well, if this ain't fortunate. [9]
She is fortunate. [5]
How fortunate! [2]

Sentences containing fortunate two or more times

It is fortunate, very fortunate that they have gone. [10]

More example sentences with the word fortunate in them

David had not yet been fortunate with his own business--the settlement of his Uncle Benn's estate--though the last stages of negotiation with the Prince Pasha seemed to have been reached. [11]
How fortunate it would have been for me if I had heeded them. [5]
Her husband added with some exultation, 'But you may thank your fortunate stars--the same stars that made you Mrs Quilp--you may thank them that I'm upon the old gentleman's track, and have got a new light. [12]
Soon your wife will be with you, oh fortunate man! [5]
His fortunate star, which in the Capital had shone on him so brightly and benevolently, seemed to have proved faithless in this ruinous hole! [10]
Happy little enclosure, where thieves cannot break through and steal, where Death himself hesitates to enter, and makes a visit only now and then at long intervals, lest the fortunate inhabitants should think they had already reached the Celestial City! [6]
It is fortunate, when we smoke a fine cigar from Havana, that we cannot look into the factory. [9]
It is fortunate when the youth of a country have an ideal. [4]
What a privilege, what a happiness, to be so fortunate as to see it! [10]
Many of them were connected by blood with more fortunate parishioners, but economic pressure had scattered them throughout new neighbourhoods and suburbs. [9]
It is fortunate we have been spared in this country the formation of a political labour party, because such a party would have been composed of manual workers alone, and hence would have tended further to develop economic class consciousness, to crystallize class antagonisms. [9]
And fortunate it was for Philip that his romance was left to grow in the wonder-working process of his own mind. [4]
I have been very fortunate this year--you would be astonished to know how I have thriven. [5]
How could he, Verus, expect that Caesar should ally his fortunate star with the fatal star of another doomed to die? [10]
It is probably true he owed his pre-eminence to no one quality, but to a fortunate combination of several. [7]
But to return to myself, if you will allow me; if I am so fortunate as to win Miss Debree's love, I have no fear that she would not win the hearts of all my family. [4]
Then he said to himself: "Bartja must not stay here; fire and water have more in common than we two--he always fortunate and happy, and I so miserable. [10]
There being but three thousand of these cave-dwellers--merely the population of a village--would they not come to know each other, after a week or two, and familiarly; insomuch that the fortunate or unfortunate experiences of one would be of interest to all? [5]
I have always thought, sir, that you were singularly fortunate in your connection with him. [9]
The duchy of this fortunate youth had been enlarged by the late successful war, and the assembly of the states of the empire was debating whether it should not be made a kingdom. [10]
In commemoration of this fortunate escape, the worthy inhabitants have continue, to smoke, almost without intermission, unto this very day; which is said to be the cause of the remarkable fog which often hangs over Communipaw of a clear afternoon. [4]
It is, I think, fortunate, and not at all discreditable, that our little vanity, which is reckoned among our weaknesses, is thus made to contribute to the activity of our nobler powers. [4]
And didn't you think we were fortunate to get such a pretty house? [8]
And a fortunate thing for him it was that in his callow years there was a woman in whom he could confide. [4]
How fortunate for them they did not sooner become sensible of their great misery! [7]
The two racked their brains for three hours; and Postmaster Burrows, who was the fortunate possessor of a pass, offered to go down to Ripton in the interest of his liege lord and see what was up. [9]
When he sees the value the intelligent and the well-to-do set upon material things, and their small regard for intellectual things and the pleasures of the mind, why should he not most passionately desire those things which his more fortunate neighbors put foremost? [4]
Their pleasure in the thought of seeing a more fortunate sister humbled, vanished at the painful news that their beloved prince was condemned to death. [10]
Meeting him at the Public Library at a fortunate moment, when there was nobody but the old Librarian, who was hard of hearing, to interfere with their conversation, the little Secretary had a chance to try to find out something about him. [6]
What the well-to-do, the prosperous, are seen to value most in life will be the things most desired by the less fortunate in accumulation. [4]
Hungerford had left the Occidental Company's service, and had been fortunate enough to get the position of first officer on a line of steamers running between England and the West Indies. [11]
No enterprise of the kind was ever more fortunate and successful in its purpose and in its results. [6]
And everybody envied the fortunate sailors. [4]
Well enough for the fortunate ones who were to continue the academic journey, which implied a postponement of the serious business of life; but month after month of the last term had passed without a hint from my father that I was to change cars. [9]
It is fortunate that you are here, for they must see you, and it would have been hard for me to fetch the other things: the salt, the Indian pepper, and the jug of Pelusinian zythus, which Satabus is always so fond of drinking. [10]
I find, however, that when one is so fortunate as to get behind the scenes and see them at home and in the privacy of their firesides, they are strangely like common mortals. [5]
It was fortunate that we were hidden from his glasses by a copse of pines. [9]
It is fortunate that they do not lodge with us in the front of the house! [10]
It is fortunate that the flame of my anger dies out so quickly. [10]
It was fortunate that the conqueror was no other than Myrtilus. [10]
New York, or that strip of it which is known to the more fortunate of human beings, is a place to raise one's spirits on a sparkling day in early winter. [9]
It was fortunate that she was going early the next morning to seek the aid of Archibius, whom Anukis believed to be the wisest of men; but this by no means soothed her. [10]
The astrologers computed that even as I had been born under the fortunate sign of Amman, so thy birth had been watched over by the rise of the awful planet Seb. [10]
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. [4]
It was fortunate that Crozier was scarcely conscious of what she was saying. [11]
I saw, indeed, that buying the Talbot estate had been a fortunate step, since the quantities of wheat we grew there might be disposed of in America. [9]
And Nancy was telling me at dinner how fortunate I was to have married you. [9]
But life is such a web of wretchedness and disappointment, that I agree with your philosopher Solon in thinking those fortunate to whom, as in former days to Kleobis and Biton, the gods decree an early death. [10]
It is exceedingly strange that these tremendous events all happened in grottoes--and exceedingly fortunate, likewise, because the strongest houses must crumble to ruin in time, but a grotto in the living rock will last forever. [5]
Eva was soon standing beside her godfather's big bay, and while patting the smooth neck of the splendid animal he said hurriedly, in a low tone: "It's fortunate that it happened so. [10]
He was very sorry he could not see Miss Hazard that evening,--hoped he should be more fortunate to-morrow forenoon, when he intended to call again,--had a message for her from one of her former school friends, which he was anxious to give her. [6]
Some of the soldiery had military clothes, old militia uniforms, or the rebel trappings of '37; others, less fortunate, wore their trousers in long boots, their coats buttoned lightly over their chests, and belted in; and the Napoleonic cockade was in every cap. [11]
We were not so peculiarly fortunate this time, the house being really very full. [6]
I have been so fortunate as to visit this spot and to search through every part of it, and the petitions I speak of have been familiar to me for years. [10]
It was as singular as it was gratifying that I was also so fortunate as to find among the rubbish of the arena, a stained and mutilated copy of the Roman Daily Battle-Ax, containing a critique upon this very performance. [5]
Emerson and I sent in our essays with the rest and were fortunate enough to take the two prizes; but--Alas for the infallibility of academic decisions! [6]
More than one Senator paid marked court to her, more than one brilliant young fellow of the House thought himself fortunate if he sat next her at dinner, and even cabinet officers waited on her at supper. [4]
How fortunate it seems, now, that we kept this thing to ourselves; Laura still has a father in you, and it is better for her that we drop this subject here forever. [5]
Soon Althea's performance seemed to prove how fortunate a choice he had made. [10]
I begin to see now why you are so fortunate in your friends. [9]
It is a relief to me that just here, where I come to the first of two painful episodes in this brilliant and fortunate career, I can preface my statement with the generous words of one who speaks with authority of his predecessor in office. [6]
Would Maude have relapsed into this senseless fit if she had realized how fortunate she was? [9]
It did not prove a fortunate beginning. [5]
Up to the present I have deemed St. John's fortunate--peculiarly fortunate, in having you for its rector. [9]
Some of the pilots whom I had known had had adventures--the outcome fortunate, sometimes, but not in all cases. [5]
When she told Philip of it, that discreet young fellow only smiled, and said that he hoped she would be fortunate enough to be in New York some evening when Harry had not already given the use of his private box to some other friend. [5]
I felt myself peculiarly fortunate in having companions whose society would be a pleasure, whose feelings would harmonize with my own, and whose assistance I might, in case of need, be glad to claim. [6]
Divine honors are paid to these fortunate quadrupeds as well as to many other animals, and he who kills a cat is punished with the same severity as the murderer of a human being. [10]
And in my opinion St. John's is more fortunate to-day than it ever has been in its existence. [9]
They came at once to the buggy and shook hands, and all spoke at once, and said eagerly and earnestly, how glad they were that he was come, and how fortunate it was. [5]
Thus Ephraim might, on his account, incur the peril of losing the one fortunate moment which promised escape. [10]
Some of the old servants and followers of the family tell me I am a most fortunate person; for that I have got one of the best gentlemen in the country. [14]
He is one of those impractical persons who have to be looked out for, if they are fortunate enough to have anyone to look out for them. [9]
He was one of those fortunate beings who come into the world with digestive organs and thyroid glands in that condition which--so physiologists tell us--makes for a sanguine temperament. [9]
In the eyes of the world, however, the phrase has a some what ironical suggestiveness, and to have luxury, wealth, and place as a birthright is not thought to be the most fortunate incident of mortality. [11]
It was one of the fortunate cases. [9]
At the end of that time I was fortunate enough to show my employer such substantial results as to earn his commendation--ay, and his confidence, which was the highest token of that man's esteem. [9]
In some account of it, which he set down later, Clemens wrote: "It was fortunate for us all that Clara's reputation for truthfulness was so well established in her mother's mind. [5]
Indeed, the most notorious criminal is the greatest legal advertisement, and the fortunate part of the business is that no lawyer is ever identified with the morals, crimes or virtues of his client, yet has particular advantage from his crimes. [11]
If you have nothing but a rag-doll stuffed with sawdust, while one of your more fortunate little playmates has a costly China one, you should treat her with a show of kindness nevertheless. [5]
She, herself, was not without money, for the Washington lobbyist is not seldom more fortunate than the Washington claimant, and she was able to procure a good many luxuries to mitigate the severity of her prison life. [5]
Unfortunately she could not grant my request, but I hope, Count, I shall be more fortunate with you," he said with a smile. [2]
But it was not a fortunate remark, for the Paladin said: "It probably isn't your turn to criticize people's prudence--you who fall out of the saddle when a donkey brays. [5]
Therefore I consider myself fortunate above thousands of others, and if there is anything which still tempts me to go to Alexandria, it is the desire to touch his dead body once more. [10]
It was a moving address you made over Ward Cheney--that fortunate, youth! [5]
When his insane mother died, he could not help considering the poor Queen fortunate because Heaven had at last released her from such a condition. [10]
Then you are most fortunate, for blissful memories--the joys of the past--are yours at any rate. [10]
This was a most fortunate circumstance for me, and in more ways than one. [9]
And we are more fortunate than many, for we are very comfortable here, and though I say it, happier than in Arlington Street. [9]
The wiser and more fortunate of these travellers and students of life brought letters to Mr. and Mrs. Hambleton Durrett. [9]
It is a mere waste of time and money, because the influence on their less fortunate brethren in a worldly sense has dwindled to nothing. [9]
Very likely you may be so fortunate as to find your sister, for a crafty woman succeeds in many things which are too difficult for a wise man. [10]
But the young man is exceptionally fortunate who enjoys the intimacy of such a teacher. [3]
They were notable letters, widely read and freely copied, and the sojourn there was a generally fortunate one. [5]
Some fortunate recovery leads him to believe he has hit upon a preventive or a cure for a malady which had resisted all known remedies. [6]
E'en fortunate Napoleon Knows by experience, now, Bagration, And dare not Herculean Russians trouble... [2]
She had never known the necessity of making friends: hers she had inherited, and for some reason specially decreed, they were better than those of less fortunate people. [9]
Besides, she regarded it as specially fortunate that she learned through him many things concerning Heinz Schorlin, which for her sister's sake she was glad to know. [10]
Still more fortunate is he if he is able to record his own achievements and give to them that form and color and importance which they assume in his own gallant consciousness. [4]
You say it is fortunate that Fremont did not intercept Jackson; that Jackson had the superior force, and would have overwhelmed him. [7]

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