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Sentences starting with fortune

Fortune had smiled upon him, trusts had come to him unsought. [9]
Fortune by her tardy favors and capricious freaks seems to discourage all my matrimonial resolves, and if I am doomed to live an old bachelor, I am anxious to have good company. [4]
Fortune and the saints had permitted him to find a woman to satisfy both his avarice and his heart, yet he had neither kept faith with her nor even showed her proper consideration. [10]
Fortune of the Republic, 294, 302, 307-309. [6]
Fortune had always played into his hands, he said, and I had no little difficulty in convincing him that matters had passed from his hands into mine. [9]
Fortune favored and I got a new berth and a delightful one. [5]
Fortune was with him. [11]
Fortune had left her, sorrow had baptized her; the routine of labor and the loneliness of almost friendless city-life were before her. [6]
Fortune had, however, favoured his reputation and his intrepidity, for he had been pursued from the hour he and his companion left Quebec. [11]
Fortune favoured him at the critical juncture, for the tailor walked slowly past them, looking neither to right nor to left, his eyes cast upon the ground, apparently oblivious to all round him. [11]

Sentences ending with fortune

He is a young man of a sterling though undeveloped character, who has been hampered by an indulgent parent with a large fortune. [9]
Everybody liked the young fellow, for how could they help liking one of such engaging manners and large fortune? [5]
Let me teach you how to face the world without a dollar; how to make a fortune. [11]
Without him there would have been no fortune. [11]
His ambition rose with his fortune. [6]
And then others who would be stingy and greedy and avaricious, and not properly spend their allotted fortune. [4]
Gamaliel knew in what peril Orion stood, and the fate that hung over the noble maiden who had once given him the costliest of gems, and afterwards entrusted to him a portion of her fortune. [10]
All these things were as much a compliment to her as though she were not a despised Huguenot, an exiled lady of no fortune. [11]
But truly she was altogether a woman, and had good fortune. [11]
I guess there was a curse on that fortune. [4]

Short sentences using fortune

Again fortune was with them. [11]
But how treacherous is fortune! [5]
Women are like good fortune. [10]
Have you a fortune? [11]
Madelinette's got double fortune. [11]
You soldier of fortune! [10]
Quite a fortune for you. [5]
It is worth a fortune. [11]
That meant fortune. [5]
Fortune had fluctuated. [11]

Sentences containing fortune two or more times

A soldier-lad composed this ditty Hans Eitelfritz he, fair Colln's son, His kindred dwell in the goodly city, But he himself in fortune, good fortune! [10]
The city is taken, the booty mine; With red gold, I'll deck--I know whom; Pair maids' cheeks burn red, red too glows the wine, Fortune, Paradise of good fortune! [10]
Down hammer, down pen, what more need I, alack I go to seek fortune, good fortune! [10]
It did so now as she admonished her beloved son, who at any time would have renounced fortune, or hope of fortune, for some wilful idea of his own. [11]
Weep not, ye must not at parting repine, I go to seek fortune, good fortune! [10]
Three lutes indicate much good fortune, two lutes and one mast good fortune and moderate prosperity, one pair of arms and two lutes misfortune, followed by happiness, and so forth. [10]
Py crashus, of he could do a clavier, of he could do a guitar, of he could do a vashtub, it is a fortune, heiliger Yohanniss it is yoost a fortune! [5]
It was the fortune, we will say the good fortune. [11]
Close-ranked, horse and foot in battle unite, In war, war, dwells fortune, good fortune! [10]
He would have done it just the same at the risk of losing a fortune, were it his whim--he would have won the fortune back in due course. [11]

More example sentences with the word fortune in them

You had only your sword and my poor fortune and me then--that is all; but you were a man. [11]
The safety of your fortune would be less difficult to provide for if, as was formerly the case here, we could entrust it to the merchants of Alexandria. [10]
You should try your fortune in London, where you shall be under my protection, sir. [9]
Soon Appelles arrives, young and vigorous and full of enthusiasm: he has led a host against the Persians and won the battle; he is the pet of fortune, rich, honoured, believed, 'Master of Palmyra'. [5]
Good health to you, and all good fortune attend you. [5]
While I thought you were making your fortune (as you said you were) you were making yourself a beggar, eh? [12]
If I find you deserve it I'll take you under my protection and make your fame and fortune for you. [5]
I will make you a fortune undreamed of, and you shall be my fianancier once more. [9]
He had not yet made his fortune, but he had been successful in the game of buying and selling lands, and luck seemed to dog his path. [11]
So had the years been, in which Fortune had poured gold and opportunity and unlimited choice into her lap. [11]
Within a few years a distinguished Scotch clergyman made a fortune by diluting a paragraph written by Saint Paul. [4]
He said it would tell my whole fortune if I wanted it to. [5]
He hoped fortune would so favour him that he could arrange for the meeting of the two alone, or, at least, in his presence only. [11]
I set to work right then to make a fortune for you, Miss Jinny. [9]
The imagination associated with it the cheerful nature which, like a loyal comrade, goes hand in hand with success, deserved and undeserved good fortune, woman's favour, doughty deeds, the highest and strongest traits of character. [10]
If he returned with a fortune, perhaps and perhaps. [5]
Was this man with a flushed face, staring eyes, disordered hair and hoarse voice, that favorite of fortune whose happy nature, easy demeanor, sunny gaze and enchanting song had bewitched her soul? [10]
She had submitted with a bleeding heart and, to place him in the path of fortune, had inflicted the deepest wounds upon her own soul. [10]
Always on the wing, as we were, and merely pausing a moment to catch fitful glimpses of the wonders of half a world, we could not hope to receive or retain vivid impressions of all it was our fortune to see. [5]
Free as the wind and clouds, I followed the same road over which I had ridden with Leonhard, for in your country a war after my own heart was going on, and my future fortune was to be based upon my sword. [10]
Having got his will, he was now ready to give that same fortune to the good of Egypt--but not to beys and pashas and eunuchs (and that he should have escaped Mizraim was the marvel beyond all others! [11]
But that, Hermon, will be your good fortune also. [10]
At sixteen the wild fellow went out into the world to seek his fortune, and had found it as a daring sailor. [10]
She, too, was widowed and had a large fortune of her own. [10]
A tall fellow, whose gait and clothes proclaim him English, with a hard face and lack-lustre eyes, saunters about; his friends at home suppose he is making his fortune in America. [4]
A dozen schemes which he had in hand, any one of which might turn up a fortune, all languished, and each needed just a little more, money to save that which had been invested. [5]
These were days when the soldier of fortune mounted to high places. [11]
The amazed comment when the heir to the Chiltern fortune had returned to the soil of his ancestors had been revived on his arrival in Newport. [9]
We never know when fortune is trying to favor us. [5]
I'd have saved what was left of a fortune, and I'd have had a home of my own. [11]
The Hawkins family were settled there, and had a hard enough struggle with poverty and the necessity of keeping up appearances in accord with their own family pride and the large expectations they secretly cherished of a fortune in the Knobs of East Tennessee. [5]
If now he were only going back with his fortune recovered, with brilliant prospects to spread before her, and could come into the house in his old playful manner, with the assumed deference of the master, and say: "Well, Edith dear, the storm is over. [4]
In August he went up to London and cast himself irrevocably upon the fortune of his pen. [4]
He had stood well in college, during three years in Europe he had picked up two or three languages, dissipated his remaining small fortune, acquired expensive tastes, and knowledge, both esoteric and exoteric, that was valuable to him in his present occupation. [4]
Twenty-Five Dollars a week--it looked like bloated luxury--a fortune a sinful and lavish waste of money. [5]
We are already wealthy; we have greater resources and higher credit than any other nation; we have more wealth than any save one; we have vast accumulations of fortune, in private hands and in enormous corporations. [4]
And where are we to look for this if not in the youth, and especially in those to whom fortune and leisure give an opportunity of leadership? [4]
Chief among the waverers were those who had come to America with visions of a fortune, who had practised a repulsive thrift in order to acquire real estate, who carried in their pockets dog-eared bank books recording payments already made. [9]
Barnum said he was willing to pay a fortune for Jumbo if he could get him. [5]
He, the upstart, was well aware that Fortune requires her favorites to keep their eyes open and their hands active. [10]
To him it was the name, the dignity, and the fortune he brought her. [11]
To her it was shameful that Carnac should be eliminated from all share in the abundant fortune John Grier had built up. [11]
When the forenoon was nearly gone, she recognized with a pang that this most splendid episode of her life was almost over, that nothing could prolong it, that nothing quite its equal could ever fall to her fortune again. [5]
He got what was left of my fortune, and I got what was left of hers. [11]
His heart, too, was heavy, for he wished the Queen the best fortune, not only for her own sake, but because with her and her successful resistance to the greed of Rome was connected the liberty of Alexandria. [10]
If their fortune was gone, then the obstacle was removed that separated her from Philip. [4]
He said it was a whole fortune and he couldn't bear the idea. [5]
Another said there was a vast fortune waiting for the genius who should invent a compass that would not be affected by the local influences of an iron ship. [5]
The fortune of war flung me under the Spanish flag, and 'whose bread I eat, his song I sing,' says the soldier. [10]
Of his own want of health, however, he never complains; he maintains a patient spirit in the ill turns of fortune, and his impatience in the business complications is that of a man hindered from his proper career. [4]
This is all very well so long as fortune favors those who are chosen to be the ornamental personages; but if the golden tide recedes and leaves them stranded, they are more to be pitied than almost any other class. [6]
He was a very busy man, in the thick of the struggle for a great fortune. [4]
It is the very book for you to publish; there is a fortune in it, and I can put you in communication with the author. [5]
There was the usual division of the scholars into a first and second set, according to the social position, mainly depending upon the fortune, of the families to which they belonged. [6]
The man who uses trust-money for three days, to acquire in those three days a fortune, certain as magnificent, would pull up short beforehand if the issue of theft or honesty were put squarely before him. [11]
If I enter upon this wide field of horticultural experiment, I shall leave peace behind; and I may expect the ground to open, and swallow me and all my fortune. [4]
They all went up to Myrtle and congratulated her on her change of fortune. [6]
A fortune, scraped up in forty years in Ingy, ain't to be thrown away in a minute. [4]
Those who have unimpaired memories may recollect the fortune amassed, many years previous to this history, by one Rodney Henderson, gathered and enlarged by means not indictable, but which illustrate the wide divergence between the criminal code and the moral law. [4]
His position was undisputed, for the Street believed with the world in the magnitude of that fortune, though there were shrewd operators who said that Mavick had more chicane but not a tenth part of the ability of Rodney Henderson. [4]
And when at twenty-four I inherited the fortune my mother left me, I had only one idea: to live the life of a sporting gentleman. [11]
Then his fortune turned and he lost and lost each day. [11]
The Syrian hastened towards her, extolling the good fortune that made his sun rise for him a second time that night, but she cut him short with the words; "Cease this foolish love-making. [10]
He saw Iberville tossed here and there, but with impossible strength and good fortune reach the lad. [11]
The Italian of to-day does not willingly emigrate, is tempted by no seduction of better fortune in any foreign clime. [4]
He often came to town, indeed, but seldom tarried long; and it had never been my fortune to see him. [9]
He had wandered to this remote region from his birthplace in the interior of the State of New York, to seek his fortune. [5]
He had ceased to think or care about Fortune. [9]
There she strove to think of the dead man, and she succeeded, but with the memory of the sturdy old hero constantly blended the image of the feeble man who to-day was voluntarily surrendering all the gifts of fortune which she--oh, how willingly! [10]
Cleopatra had fled to the tomb as soon as the fortune of war turned in favour of Octavianus. [10]
He had learned to speak French like a Parisian, had hobnobbed with wit and wickedness from Versailles to Rome, and then had come back to Annapolis to set the fashions and to spend the fortune his uncle lately had left him. [9]
I walked forth to seek my fortune. [5]
It is pleasant to say that the young man, though favored by nature with this rarest of talents, did not forget the humbler duties that Heaven, which dresses few singing-birds in the golden plumes of fortune, had laid upon him. [6]
Hast thou naught to say but this--the fortune of Egypt burned to ashes! [11]
No man ought to play cards who hasn't a fortune; and my fortune, I'm sorry to say, is only my face! [11]
We were beginning to perceive that charity did not consist in dispensing largesse after making a fortune at the expense of one's fellow-men; that there was something still wrong in a government that permits it. [9]
She is willing to pay something for the sake of injuring the woman who stands between us, or the old man who has the good or evil fortune of being her rival's grandfather. [10]
He had returned to Keokuk presently, and being convinced there was a fortune in chickens, had prevailed upon his brother to purchase for him a little farm not far from the town. [5]
And she managed to keep the good news to herself, though it would seem that the most careless observer might have seen by her springing step and her radiant countenance that some fine piece of good fortune had descended upon her. [5]
Nevertheless, thanks partly to good fortune, and to the farseeing wisdom of our early statesmen who perceived that the success of our experiment depended upon the maintenance of an isolation from European affairs, we established democracy as a practical form of government. [9]
It has nothing to do with ugliness or beauty, or fortune or misfortune, or shame or happiness, or sin or holiness. [11]
Or go rather through the great archway, and under the teeth of the portcullis, into the irregular quadrangle, whose buildings mark the changing style and fortune of successive centuries, from 1300 down to the seventeenth century? [4]
It was as though it all said to him: "It is a dream that those you love have vanished, that ill- fortune sits by your fireside. [11]
Mrs. Clymer Ketchum, though her acquaintances were chiefly in the world of fortune and of fashion, had yet a certain weakness for what she called clever people. [6]
A moiety of this money was given to Sebastian Dolores, who could scarcely believe his good fortune. [11]
He knows that this leaves his garrison of Beaugency at the mercy of fortune, to escape our hands if it can; but there is no other course if he would avoid this battle, and that he also knows. [5]
What weapons had this heiress of a great fortune with which to defend herself? [4]
I landed in this country with my little fortune of two thousand pounds. [11]
The key of this chamber happened by good fortune to be on that side of the door which was in Nell's room; she turned it on him when the landlady had withdrawn, and crept to bed again with a thankful heart. [12]
I suppose you think, that, because I lived at a plain widow-woman's plain table, I was of course more or less infirm in point of worldly fortune. [6]
In my opinion, there's a fortune in 'em. [5]
I was not, therefore, wholly taken by surprise when he said to me one night: "I am resolved to try my fortune in America, lad. [9]
For a man there is always present the chance of winning a vast fortune and the power that it brings; but it can seldom come to a woman except through marriage. [11]
It is not, then, in anything exceptional that we are interested in the operations of Murad Ault, but simply on account of his fortuitous connection with a great fortune which had its origin in very much the same cyclonic conditions that Mr. Ault reveled in. [4]
You were living then on another man's fortune, now you're living on what your wife earns. [11]
But at last the tide of fortune turned; young Caruthers became infect with smallpox of the most virulent type, and when he recovered from his illness his face was pitted like a waffle-mold, and his comeliness gone forever. [5]
The bones of the Three Kings, by the way, made the fortune of the cathedral. [4]
The Leith millionaire, the summer resident, was a new factor in politics, and the rumours of the size of his fortune had reached a high-water mark in the Pelican Hotel that evening. [9]
This fortune, upon the sudden death of its creator, had been largely diverted from its charitable destination by fraud, by a crime that would have fallen within the code if it had been known. [4]
Though devoted to the South, she did not consecrate her fortune to it. [9]

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