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    1. "She got it at half price from Ava, but with her fortune Ava could buy a place like that every year and just leave it


    2. He still had thirty coppers of his fortune, he should do something worthwhile with that


    3. She would forget his name as she slipped into her next role chasing Ava's fortune


    4. Four tons probably wasn't more than a few percent of the total refined aluminum on this world, but it was the largest single fortune in one place


    5. Herndon almost popped an aneurism over that, she could see purple veins pound in his face, but she turned it on him with the story of Kulai's fortune


    6. ‘But that must have cost a fortune


    7. Although I could not voice my anger because of the tape across my mouth, I raved and screamed internally, breathing hard and wetly through my nose, snorting my rage and venom at the world, at my guards and outrageous bloody fortune


    8. "Oh it's no problem now, Oliar's doing well today, he hasn't paid attention to his finances and hasn't got the fortune that a lot of the old wizards do, but he's had a comfortable research position at Pinnacle Labs in Yondure since the 43rd century


    9. Forest: If the trees are high and nice, you will inherit a fortune; if you are alone and gloomy in a forest, it indicates that you can't distinguish who your true friends are; if the forest is on fire, prepare for disaster


    10. “Now that you have your fortune I hope you will die

    11. Party: If you are in a party and dance, you will have good fortune


    12. You will bring me good fortune


    13. All that remains of this story is to say that both Archibald and his darling young lady were married, that they inherited her father's vast fortune, and that, in between location shoots, premieres and promotional tours, they lived happily ever after with an enormous brood of normally featured offspring


    14. London boasts at least seven Interweb billionaires amongst its fabled glitterati, but not one of them can begin to measure their fortune or their white-hot technological status against that of old Jimmy Cameron, the founder, chief executive and principle shareholder of NanoGoo International


    15. Mister Cameron is blessed with the sort of fortune that, in fables and fairy stories at least, has only ever been granted to mere mortals in return for a lien on their soul


    16. Before his recent retirement James Cameron’s octopine good fortune reached its happy tentacles out to touch every aspect of his life, not the least part of which was his stunningly beautiful eldest daughter, the delightfully named Cyberia


    17. Now, though, he was rich, handsome, had fine clothes and he had a new set of friends, who were all eager to join with him in his good fortune


    18. This lovely old place was once owned by a famous television personality, whose claim to good fortune and favour was based upon his inestimable knowledge of all things horticultural


    19. Old Ted, on the other hand, went from strength to strength, earning a small fortune from his globally syndicated television show and from a chain of franchised garden centres bearing his name that sprang up across the whole country


    20. She was also blessed with the good fortune to have moved into one of the two ground floor bedsits, which boasted high ceilings, large sash windows and more than enough room to swing a cat

    21. fortune on the boy


    22. that they inherited her father's vast fortune, and that, in between


    23. fortune that, in fables and fairy stories at least, has only ever been


    24. fortune reached its happy tentacles out to touch every aspect of his


    25. who were all eager to join with him in his good fortune


    26. He spent a happy hour musing on the vagaries of fortune and on his


    27. earning a small fortune from his globally syndicated television


    28. She was also blessed with the good fortune to


    29. heir to the Roach family fortune


    30. the pitch of a fortune teller, a guess that was confirmed as the three

    31. “Do you want to have your fortune told?” Bram asked, out of the


    32. He is stunned by his good fortune, by his darling girl


    33. Although the young man was handsome, promising and attracted to the young beauty, her tastes were for a more wholesome and ruggedly capable ideal for a mate, not the moony-eyed heir to wealth and fortune


    34. All that matters now is that he is there, in the storm with her, shielding her as best he can from the driving winds and rain of shocking fortune


    35. “That was when you began to make your fortune wasn’t it?” she asked


    36. ‘That’s going to cost a fortune – can’t get that sort of thing on the NHS


    37. What good fortune brings you here?” The fairy was so beautiful that for a moment Chen could only stare


    38. “Mum?” he began as she went to put on the kettle, “We were just passing and noticed you've had a bit of bad fortune, what has happened?”


    39. By a great stroke of good fortune none of the people were seriously injured, but one of the horses broke its leg and had to be put down


    40. Allcock has consented that I shall have the sublime honor of hoping for his daughter's hand in marriage when once I have secured house and fortune enough befitting so wonderful a lady

    41. They have offered him a small fortune and a path to partnership if he would allow himself to be nominated for the position,” she crowed and Harold beamed


    42. It also, as good fortune might have it, was at the edge of town near opposite to the Livingson Bungalow Lodges


    43. “We have been very fortunate to have been offered a facility and support from our village, would it be appropriate to, I don't know, in some way return our good fortune somehow to the village?” Allowing for a minimum period of initial reflection and chatter, she continued


    44. His current name is Brancetrabble, and he is the owner of this castle and the vast fortune it represents


    45. Over the centuries he has amassed a fortune great enough to buy for himself one of only eight helmeted suntowers in operation outside the Kassikan


    46. But would they be interested enough to squander a few trillion of their fortune to pursue it?


    47. It has been my great good fortune that fair Caro has been so generous as to offer me her home for all these weeks


    48. we’d previously lashed out to pay the fortune required to


    49. He was still unsure how he landed the position, nor did he wish to question such fortune


    50. Cassandra, the fortune teller of Troy, insists that the horse would be the downfall of the city and its royal family














































    1. But he had overmuch drunkenand the best word he could have of him was that he would ever dishonest a woman whoso she were or wife or maid or leman if it so fortuned him to be


    1. Hopefully she could get enough money from Herndon that she wouldn't have to tend sail on a freighter to get home, she hadn't brought much with her and with all his fortunes he often balked at paying for her yaag


    2. doostEr was suspicious that Tahlmute was coloring this with his own fortunes, the Yingolian crystals bubble burst ten decades ago


    3. Fortunes varied, were won and lost, and the family name changed through the ages, becoming a proper product of each model of social propriety, until, at the very end of a long line of ancestors , there was but one member of the family left living


    4. One day, attracted by the unrivalled opportunities being offered to skilled people by this new broom sweeping through government’s old and crusty cobwebs of social patronage, two provincial public relations specialists arrived in the city determined to make their fortunes


    5. Most of all, however, it was called by this name because it was funny watching other people making complete fools of themselves, and pretty soon nearly every television programme featured ordinary people trying to win small fortunes, to become movie stars and generally being the nastiest of nasties in the woodpile


    6. Fortunes varied, were


    7. specialists arrived in the city determined to make their fortunes


    8. But when the ships gates first opened, he had been one of the people gaping up into it and the glittering fortunes on display


    9. own fortunes over the past week or so


    10. restore the fortunes of Jacob and will

    11. 1“In those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah


    12. fortunes fluctuated depending on the skill of the hunters


    13. The great fortunes so suddenly and so easily acquired in Bengal and the other British settlements in the East Indies, may satisfy us, that as the wages of labour are very low, so the profits of stock are very high in those ruined countries


    14. All people of small or middling fortunes would be obliged to superintend themselves the employment of their own stocks


    15. It seldom happens, however, that great fortunes are made, even in great towns,


    16. eminent teachers in those times appear to have acquired great fortunes


    17. ‘The fortunes of this Abbey won’t be determined by


    18. Mining, it seems, is considered there in the same light as here, as a lottery, in which the prizes do not compensate the blanks, though the greatness of some tempts many adventurers to throw away their fortunes in such unprosperous projects


    19. We see, every day, the most splendid fortunes, that have been acquired in the course of a single life, by trade and manufactures, frequently from a very small capital, sometimes from no capital


    20. Though individuals, besides, may sometimes ruin their fortunes by an excessive consumption of fermented liquors, there seems to be no risk that a nation should do so

    21. There were families out there who would give half of their fortunes away to have a son-in-law like him


    22. That this extraordinary profit, however, is no more than sufficient to put his trade upon a fair level with other trades, and to compensate the many losses which he sustains upon other occasions, both from the perishable nature of the commodity itself, and from the frequent and unforeseen fluctuations of its price, seems evident enough, from this single circumstance, that great fortunes are as seldom made in this as in any other trade


    23. And its not just alligators - crocodiles, monitor lizards and even snakes all experience an upturn in their fortunes


    24. This law, however, though we read of its having been executed upon one or two occasions, was either neglected or evaded, and the inequality of fortunes went on continually increasing


    25. This total exemption front trouble and front risk, beyond a limited sum, encourages many people to become adventurers in joint-stock companies, who would, upon no account, hazard their fortunes in any private copartnery


    26. Their ill success was imputed, by their factors and agents, to the extortion and oppression of the Spanish government ; but was, perhaps, principally owing to the profusion and depredations of those very factors and agents; some of whom are said to have acquired great fortunes, even in one year


    27. The trade of insurance gives great security to the fortunes of private people, and, by dividing among a great many that loss which would ruin an individual, makes it fall light and easy upon the whole society


    28. The English copper company of London, the lead-smelting company, the glass-grinding company, have not even the pretext of any great or singular utility in the object which they pursue ; nor does the pursuit of that object seem to require any expense unsuitable to the fortunes of many private men


    29. In England, success in the profession of the law leads to some very great objects of ambition ; and yet how few men, born to easy fortunes, have ever in this country been eminent in that profession?


    30. Princes, however, have frequently engaged in many other mercantile projects, and have been willing, like private persons, to mend their fortunes, by becoming adventurers in the common branches of trade

    31. Those agents frequently live with the profusion of princes ; and sometimes, too, in spite of that profusion, and by a proper method of making up their accounts, acquire the fortunes of princes


    32. All shop-keepers and tradesmen worth more than three hundred pounds, that is, the better sort of them, were subject to the same assessment, how great soever might be the difference in their fortunes


    33. Their wealth would alone excite the public indignation; and the vanity which almost always accompanies such upstart fortunes, the foolish ostentation with which they commonly display that wealth, excite that indignation still more


    34. It occasions a general and most pernicious subversion of the fortunes of private people; enriching, in most cases, the idle and profuse debtor, at the expense of the industrious and frugal creditor ; and transporting a great part of the national capital from the hands which were likely to increase and improve it, to those who are likely to dissipate and destroy it


    35. world, all seeking their own fortunes


    36. A seemingly small player in the very big game, he was as unnoticed like a shadow, watching for the gaps and the opportunities to change fortunes for those who needed it


    37. In a period of hyperinflation, Forge’s fortunes would become meaningless


    38. The opponents of ―Wealth‖ oftentimes ignore its humbler origins by rejecting off-hand the many hardships that many financially successful individuals had to endure—hard work, taking calculated risks and self-sacrifice in order to acquire their fortune(s)


    39. ) Adopting conspicuously faulty and (otherwise) self-serving reasoning conveniently side-steps a very important fact; that we all exist in a less than perfect world subject to changing fortunes and other unexpected events that routinely challenge our mettle; and that Nature, however, has its own inestimable manner of compensating each of us with an innate capacity to endure hardships and rise above our present condition however unfavorable or improbable our prospects for a ―better‖ life may appear and that an individual‘s threshold for suffering and privation oftentimes vary in proportion to that individual‘s (mental) endurance and acquired habits in spite of that individual‘s accustomed environment and in any event, such (gratuitous) impressions are problematical at best and should not serve as a litmus test in determining who should or should not be permitted to live or given an equal opportunity to exercise free choice(s) pre-empted by selfish motives indifferent to such rights; motives whose arbitrary designs are (otherwise) impervious to the apparent limits or consequences of questionable solutions whose (hardened) indifference to Life must inevitably diminish the (inherent) value a society confers upon its citizens regardless of their station in life


    40. That the confiscation of personal property and private fortunes promotes wealth creation is a non sequitur!

    41. Beneath the brightest of moons the air rang with the screams and shouts of the struggling boars as they swayed back and forth across the clearing, their changing fortunes marked by the growing bloodstains on the soil


    42. The Victors oftentimes look to consolidate their fortunes for their own sake rather than taking a chance that the spoils of victory might spill over to the Vanquished


    43. As a graying sixties generation quickly approaches middle age, sustained by a wistful desire for the ―good old days‖ that typified its youthful idealism, many can‘t help reflecting on those formative years without forlorn regret over a progeny whose slackening awareness and indifference to social ―causes‖ and other immediate issues that continue to trouble our society has given way to self-gratifying designs, like amassing ―huge‖ fortunes, for example


    44. crew member’s fortunes would rise or fall at the whim of the


    45. thousand traveled to Alaska seeking their fortunes, and about


    46. In Victorian times, Nottinghamshire farmers had made their fortunes and losses on just this spot


    47. Had they known that taking out Quan would reap these kinds of fortunes, they’d have done it years ago


    48. ing our fortunes, homes, and retirement nest egg-things that are guar-


    49. To build up the family fortunes, and correctly use the family resources!


    50. Since that time downtown activity has ebbed and flowed with the fortunes and misfortunes of the city












































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    Synonyms for "fortune"

    chance fortune hazard luck circumstances destiny fate lot portion inheritance estate wealth bomb capital bundle gold mint packet windfall fluke

    "fortune" definitions

    an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another


    a large amount of wealth or prosperity


    an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome


    your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)