Use fortunes in a sentence
Sentences starting with fortunes
- Fortunes have been made, and lost in riotous living; scores of visionary men have been disappointed; lawsuits about titles and claims have multiplied, and quarrels ending in murder have been frequent in the past few years. [4]
- Fortunes were made in a day by buying lots in "paper towns. [4]
- Fortunes in them! [5]
Sentences ending with fortunes
- More than nine years had passed since the closing of the Hartford house--eventful years that had seen failure, bereavement, battle with debt, and rehabilitated fortunes. [5]
- He had come when all his gold was gone to do the one bold thing which might at once restore his fortunes. [11]
- Martin, too chicken-hearted to use them, came back with them to Jamestown, leaving his company to their fortunes. [4]
- That he realized this, and was willing to yield, was by no means the least of his good fortunes. [5]
- The similarity of their characters might be followed by the curious into their fortunes. [6]
- What became of the Moravian chaplain I did not know; but my friend the Philanthropist had evidently made up his mind to adhere to my fortunes. [6]
- I went on telling fortunes. [5]
- Soon as I see Tull there'll be a change in your fortunes. [13]
- I have no reason to believe that the Vicomte has come to this country to--to mend his fortunes. [9]
- He accepted his own release, not that he would ever think she could be indifferent to his future fortunes. [6]
Short sentences using fortunes
- What fortunes were made! [5]
Sentences containing fortunes two or more times
- There are new fortunes, undoubtedly, munitions and war fortunes made before certain measures were taken to control profits; and some establishments, including a few supported by American accumulations, still exhibit the number of men servants and amount of gold plate formerly thought adequate. [9]
- There's fortunes upon fortunes of copper ore on our land! [5]
More example sentences with the word fortunes in them
- Something over two years before, Mr. Goodman and another journeyman printer, had borrowed forty dollars and set out from San Francisco to try their fortunes in the new city of Virginia. [5]
- Twenty ample fortunes would not timber one of the greatest of those silver mines. [5]
- I do not wish to utilize the fortunes of war to humiliate an honored monarch. [2]
- We will uphold William with our fortunes and our lives for, as I have already said, we need a sun, that is, a monarch--but the cities think they have power to shine and wish to be admired as bright stars themselves. [10]
- In a letter which Mark Twain wrote to his brother Orion at this period we get the first hint of a venture which was to play an increasingly important part in the Hartford home and fortunes during the next ten or a dozen years. [5]
- Yet, in 1895, when he was sixty years old, he decided to rebuild his fortunes by making a reading tour around the world. [5]
- On either side was that soft plumbless diffusion, and ahead the secret of untravelled wilds and the fortunes of war. [11]
- The momentous day was at hand--a day that promised to make or mar the fortunes of Hawkins family for all time. [5]
- He is a traitor who links his fortunes with that vile, murderous upstart, that blethering hypocrite, Oliver Cromwell. [11]
- There were gentry, too, from the tide-waters, come to retrieve the fortunes which they had lost by their patriotism. [9]
- I bided my time, and went on telling fortunes, as opportunity offered. [5]
- He says: "Being thus left to our fortunes, it fortuned that within ten days scarce ten amongst us could either go, or well stand, such extreme weakness and sicknes oppressed us. [4]
- But it went through his mind that this was a strange end for all Dryfoos's money-making to come to; and he philosophically accepted the fact of his own humble fortunes when he reflected how little his money could buy for such a man. [8]
- I would'nt take three fortunes for one little operation I've got on hand now--have anything from the casters? [5]
- It was in this same year, 1816, when the fortunes of the firm were daily becoming more dismal, that he wrote to Brevoort, upon the report that the latter was likely to remain a bachelor: "We are all selfish beings. [4]
- The history of this panic summer in New York would not be worthy the reader's attention were not the fortunes of some of his acquaintances involved in it. [4]
- Whatever theist fortunes, they would always be welcome here . [9]
- The fortunes of these inhabitants of Cottonwoods could be read in their abodes. [13]
- In proportion as their fortunes and their popularity declined, and their once notable position as an old family became scarce a memory even, the pride of the Lavilettes increased. [11]
- The fortunes of the Sellers play were most uncertain and becoming daily more doubtful. [5]
- It is in the nature of large fortunes to diminish rapidly, when subdivided and distributed. [6]
- The fact is, the freighting business had grown to such important proportions that there was nearly as much excitement over suddenly acquired toll-road fortunes as over the wonderful silver mines. [5]
- The decline of the family fortunes seemed to have had as little effect upon her as upon her father, although their characters differed sharply. [9]
- He had watched the decline of Dyck's fortunes with an eye of appreciation; he had seen the clouds of poverty and anxiety closing in. [11]
- It was true that O'Ryan now would be a rich man--one of the richest in the West, unless all signs failed; but meanwhile a union of fortunes would only be an added benefit. [11]
- Great houses, like that once lived in by Lord Timothy Dexter, in Newburyport, remain as evidence of the fortunes amassed in these places of old. [6]
- I may say that I married her for the furtherance of my fortunes, and have come to love her for her own sake. [9]
- The fortunes of such a party are, of course, dependent upon the military success of the allied armies and navies. [9]
- We should all start rich, and the dying off of those who would never attain youth would amply provide fortunes for those born old. [4]
- I imagined him standing thus, the stump of his cigar tightly clutched between his teeth, following the fortunes of some favorite on the far side of the Belmont track. [9]
- Many writers, and some of them English, have expressed curiosity, if not wonder, at the different fortunes which attended the doctrine of equality in America and in France. [4]
- He had inherited, so the rector had been informed, one of those modest fortunes that were deemed affluence in the eighties. [9]
- It is not so much the accumulation of money that is mischievous in this country, for the most stupid can see that fortunes are constantly shifting hands, but it is the use that is made of the leisure and opportunity that money brings. [4]
- Again and again she repeated to herself that Eliphalet's devotion to the Colonel at this low ebb of his fortunes had something in it of which she did not suspect him. [9]
- Whether the Germans shall be able to exploit the country, bring about a reaction and restore for a time monarchical institutions depends largely upon the fortunes of the war. [9]
- He could not see that the frequenters were greatly different at the different places; they were mostly Americans, of subdued manners and conjecturably subdued fortunes, with here and there a table full of foreigners. [8]
- In Iberville he saw his own youth renewed, and foretold the high part he would yet play in the fortunes of New France. [11]
- The love of rural life, the habit of finding enjoyment in familiar things, that susceptibility to Nature which keeps the nerve gently thrilled in her homliest nooks and by her commonest sounds, is worth a thousand fortunes of money, or its equivalents. [4]
- The sanctity of private property is being menaced, demagogues are crying out from the house-tops and inciting people against the men who have made this country what it is, who have risked their fortunes and their careers for the present prosperity. [9]
- The woman was piling up fortunes right along, the man was spending them --spending all his wife would give him a chance at, at any rate. [5]
- Not to seem partial, I made friends and told fortunes among all the companies garrisoned there; but I gave Company C the great bulk of my attentions. [5]
- We must confine ourselves to the fortunes of our hero. [4]
- He, like the other guests, made friends with the strangers, and in his merry fashion he bid the older bear leader tell our fortunes by our hands, while the young ones should dance. [10]
- They had no other friends or home to leave, he said, and had come to share his fortunes. [12]
- In one form or another Orion is ever present, his inquiries, his proposals, his suggestions, his plans for improving his own fortunes, command our attention. [5]
- It was his opinion that such a letter, written with well-simulated asinine innocence and gush would have gotten his ignorance and stupidity an amount of newspaper abuse worth six fortunes to him, and not purchasable for twice the money. [5]
- From all parts of the world adventurers came to renew their fortunes in the turmoil of London, and every street was a kaleidoscope of faces and clothes and colours, not British, not patriot, not national. [11]
- It was because of the Sellers characteristics in him that he invested in a typesetting-machine which cost him nearly two hundred thousand dollars and helped to wreck his fortunes by and by. [5]
- The liberal spendings of the Fosters upon their fancies began early in their prosperities, and grew in prodigality step by step with their advancing fortunes. [5]
- Nay, the death of Philip, and Melissa's and Alexander's evil fortunes, placed them in the ranks of the foremost foes of tyranny. [10]
- No young man of his years put forth a fairer promise of future usefulness and celebrity; the fortunes of none were fostered more sincerely by the generous good wishes of his superiors. [4]
- The youthful heirs of fortunes who keep splendid yachts have little to talk about with the oarsman who pulls about on the lake or the river. [6]
- The combined fortunes of both required economy, and after Margaret had passed her school course she added to their resources by teaching in a public school. [4]
- We have no occasion to follow further the fortunes of the Virginia colony, except to relate the story of Pocahontas under her different names of Amonate, Matoaka, Mrs. Rolfe, and Lady Rebecca. [4]
- The wine had now warmed the youthful poet's praecordia, so that he began to feel a renewed confidence in his genius and his fortunes. [6]
- His lot was not cast among the poor; most of his relations had solid fortunes, and many of them were millionaires, or what was equivalent to that, before the term was invented. [4]
- I shall keep my own counsel, naturally; but as soon as he is well rested and nourished, I shall take him to Denver and rehabilitate his fortunes. [5]
- Whatever fortunes wait my future toils, The _beautiful_ is vanished and returns not. [6]
- And this I may say, that had it pleased Providence to give me dealing with such men of the King's side as he, perchance my fortunes had been altered. [9]
- But if he married Ruth, disaster would come-- Roscoe himself acknowledged that she held the key of his fortunes. [11]
- I read the man's mind in his eye; here was a match to mend his fortunes, and do him credit besides. [9]
- He envied no man, he coveted nothing; had once or twice made other men's fortunes by prospecting, but was poor himself. [11]
- Lord Delaware, a man of the highest reputation for courage and principle, determined to go himself, as Captain-General, to Virginia, in the hope of saving the fortunes of the colony. [4]
- Not content with making acquaintance with the main streets and squares the public sites and buildings, he peeped into the handsomest of the private houses and asked the names, rank and fortunes of the owners. [10]
- They could speedily make their fortunes if they would work as rapidly in cotton-fields. [4]
- Others had by luck and persistence made money--the basis of their fortunes; but Wallstein had showed them how to save those fortunes and make them grow; had enabled them to compete successfully with the games of other great financiers in the world's stock-markets. [11]
- It was the letter of a man who knew how to appreciate at their proper value the misfortunes, as the fortunes, of life. [11]
- To them the lauded blind artist was not much more than a costly dish certain to please their guests; yet this, too, was no trifle in social circles which spent small fortunes for a rare fish. [10]
- Florette did not know herself, whether she owed the name of sibyl to her skill in telling fortunes by cards, or to her wise counsel. [10]
- But Currer Bell knew no more of William Makepeace Thackeray as an individual man--of his life, age, fortunes, or circumstances--than she did of those of Mr. Michael Angelo Titmarsh. [14]
- I hold the key of all your earthly fortunes in my hand. [6]
- It was done, it seems to me, with much more difficulty than people have of stronger nerves, and better fortunes. [14]
- And his establishment is conducted primarily, and his guests selected, in the interests of his fortunes. [9]
- The crowd thinned in time, and yet very many lingered to see the last of this drama of lost fortunes. [11]
- At no time in his life were Mark Twain's fortunes and prospects brighter; he had a beautiful family and a perfect home. [5]
- The next step in his fortunes was to fall in love with Patty, which was natural enough. [9]
- It seemed that in his fallen fortunes these dogs understood the nature of their value to him, and governed their affection and faithfulness accordingly. [13]
- Our travelers stopped in Chicago long enough to see that they could make their fortunes there in two week's tine, but it did not seem worth while; the west was more attractive; the further one went the wider the opportunities opened. [5]
- His is the humble task of following the fortunes of certain individuals, more or less conspicuous in this astonishing flowering of a democratic society, who have become dear to him by long acquaintance. [4]
- It was curious how their fortunes had see-sawed, the one against the other, for twelve years. [11]
- Three years before, his uncle Arius had sent him with excellent letters of introduction to Rome to become acquainted with the life of the capital and try whether, in spite of his origin, his brilliant gifts of eloquence would forward his fortunes there. [10]
- Radiant magnificent as his former fortunes seemed the attire of this mighty fallen hero, who but yesterday had shrunk timidly and sadly from the eyes of his fellow-men. [10]
- For, unknown to his daughter "Conrad," the old Baron Klugenstein was come, and was among the crowd of nobles, triumphant in the swelling fortunes of his house. [5]
- We follow with him, in one of his novels of society, the fortunes of a very few people. [4]
- We have not heard of Joe Goodman since the trying days of '90 and '91, when he was seeking to promote the fortunes of the type-setting machine. [5]
- I guess we'll hear now how those fortunes were made. [9]
- All the fortunes he had ever made before were poverty compared with this one. [5]
- Warner's previous experience had not disposed him to try his fortunes with the members of the publishing fraternity. [4]
- The accident which had come to his idol, with the certain fall of his fortunes, hit him so hard, that, for the first time since he became a barber, his razor nipped the flesh of more than one who sat in his red-upholstered chair. [11]
- You do not guess that your reply will make or mar the fortunes of your country. [9]
- There had he gone through many fortunes, till at last, in Alexandria, he had one day met Akusch. [10]
- You see, my friends, what immense conclusions, touching our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor, may be reached by means of very insignificant premises. [6]
- In the sad fortunes of war and hate of me, she may need a friend--even against her own people, on her own hearthstone. [11]
- Before following the fortunes of this Virginia colony of 1606, to which John Smith was attached, it is necessary to glance briefly at the previous attempt to make settlements in this portion of America. [4]
- He had the fortunes of his brother Peter on his mind also, and invested his earnings, then and for some years after, in enterprises for his benefit that ended in disappointment. [4]
- I'd give two fortunes for the chance of it. [11]
- Oh indeed, our fortunes are improving over there--our meek tramp has undergone a metamorphosis. [5]
- Money was plenty for every attainable luxury, and there seemed to be no doubt that its supply would continue, and that fortunes were about to be made without a great deal of toil. [5]
- There were a few articles of clothing for herself to carry, and a few for him; old garments, such as became their fallen fortunes, laid out to wear; and a staff to support his feeble steps, put ready for his use. [12]
- She, who always feared the worst, saw in imagination the fortunes of war change--and there was reason for the belief. [10]
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