How To Use Fortune In A Sentence
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She's suffered a good deal of misfortune over the years.
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If you don't invest in these shares, you're saying no to a fortune.
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You might well feel a tad suspicious of this literary agent's good fortune.
Times, Sunday Times
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Manage the P & L for the Consulting portion of a portfolio of Fortune 500 clients
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It is also her misfortune to have been saddled with an unappetisingly needy role.
Times, Sunday Times
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Make a fortune and have fun Come to the pachinko parlor!
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The dangers for girls were especially acute: “It is estimated that two-thirds of the girls who appear before the Court charged with immorality owe their misfortune to influences derived directly from the movies, either from the pictures themselves or in the ‘picking up’ of male acquaintances at the theatre!”
A Renegade History of the United States
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The announcement hushed the crowd but soon the hubbub returned and the misfortune was forgotten.
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Both Hyundai and Nissan have reversed their U.S. automotive fortunes but to differing degrees.
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I have paid a small fortune in tuition fees to my local pool to teach both my children to swim.
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Investments that rely on the misfortune of others or the good will of sharks are a losing proposition in the long term, whatever the quarterly earnings report says.
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What a suasory example it is for those, who through some freak of fortune, being enabled to shake off the dust of honest toil and industry, are very ready to look downward with contempt upon the rank they have just left.
Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense
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Nothing, in short, evinced to the august visitors any symptom of a reverse of fortune, such as they had been led to expect, in the position and circumstances of Marie de Medicis.
The Life of Marie de Medicis — Volume 3
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This was certainly a welcome change of fortune.
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Good fishing for sportsmen and women also means good fortune for those who must feed their families almost entirely by fishing - loons, ospreys, bald eagles and cormorants.
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Europcar, which has developed the system with UK-based digital agency Fortune Cookie, will equip the system at a number of major outlets elsewhere around Europe from the end of the first half of 2010.
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If he has managed to get rid of all the bad news, amounting to £1.3bn of exceptionals, which led to the company reporting a net loss of £1.02 bn, then there should be room for considerable upside in the group's fortunes over the next year.
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A small fortune will await the man who can reach the upper deck.
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Six months later their two sons inherited their parents' fortune as sole beneficiaries.
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I feel pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.
Chapter 1
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And when the Monkeewrench crew - computer geeks who made a fortune on games, now assisting the cops with special anticrime soft-ware - are invited by the FBI to investigate a series of murder videos posted to the Web, it's not long before the group discovers the frightening link between the unlucky bride and the latest, most horrific use of the Internet yet.
Shoot to Thrill by P. J. Tracy: Book summary
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My fault for being such an eejit as to give a charlatan a fortune for dressed-up tripe.
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For a while she became an underwear model for Lejaby, but her big break came when she landed the job as hostess in the TV gameshow Wheel of Fortune.
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I admire at your fortune.
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As a modern parent, I know that it's not how much you give children those counts, it's the love and attention you shower on them.A caring attitude can not only save you a small fortune, but also even make you feel good about being tight-fisted and offering more care than presents.
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Luzhin feels that all the dreams and fancies of having Dounia as his wife is in jeopardy because of a unforeseen turn of fortunes.
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Ironically, despite a global reversal in the world's financial fortunes, the ultrarich continue to grow (grotesquely) richer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Oliver made a fortune by investing in antique furniture.
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About to be disinherited from the family fortune, Stephen returns to home after a long estrangement and it happens to be the night his father is shot to death.
The Inheritance by Simon Tolkien: Book summary
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That the enemy had not singled Winfred out to be easy prey was nothing short of pure fortune, especially with the battle still raging before his eyes.
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Various strokes of misfortune led to his ruin.
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People spend a fortune on that.
Times, Sunday Times
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The study, at a large Fortune 100 manufacturing company, focused on employees who provide personal care to an older relative.
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If there was an element of good fortune about his batting then, this was a virtually faultless performance.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am not a fortune teller, but a true clairvoyant, I will help you to find your direction in a way that will leave you empowered and positive.
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Whether royal servants consistently made fortunes from fees and peculation seems doubtful.
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Any one can stand his own misfortunes; but when I read in the papers all about the rascalities and outrages going on I realize what a creature the human animal is.
Mark Twain: A Biography
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Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left.
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He protected and promoted his clients while making them fortunes from red-top newspapers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Never, not even once,’ he said when asked if he had considered just trousering the money and keeping quiet about his good fortune.
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That's because he very nearly lost the lot through a catalogue of misfortune three years ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is also the highly suggestive definitation of cartomancy - literally from the French carte card + mancie -mancy: fortune-telling by the use of playing cards.
Archive 2008-02-01
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In the duty of accumulation -- and I call it a _duty_, in the most strict and literal signification of that word -- all below a competence is most valuable, and its acquisition most laudable; but all above a fortune is a misfortune.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
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He did not deserve such fortune.
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In short, these kind of hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune, who may be considered as thus playing tricks with us, and wantonly diverting herself at our expense.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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You always did wonder, how did they amass these fortunes?
Times, Sunday Times
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He is the sole heir to a large mining fortune.
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Jim staked his whole fortune on one card game.
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New Economy evangelists believe that a balance sheet reflects only a single moment in time and so cannot tell the whole story of a company's fortunes and true value and real potential.
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But the online fortunes of these two key figures are polar opposites.
Times, Sunday Times
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Living close to the East Fortune Airfield, you hardly ever get through a day without seeing some kind of flying device in the sky, be it a microlight, heli-copter or, best of all, a jet.
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The sad news for those born-again C & A consumers is that this revival of fortunes is too late to save the company, which will take its final curtain after Christmas.
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The spirit of my father grows strong in me, and I will no longer endure it; therefore allow me such exercises as may become a gentleman, or give me the poor allottery my father left me by testament; with that I will go buy my fortunes.
Act I. Scene I. As You Like It
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The shop and cafe were once a thriving business and despite a recent upturn in fortunes, a three-year period of losses have led to charity chiefs deciding it is no longer financially viable.
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This stunning coin, which portrays several symbols of fortune and wealth, also reflects the auspiciousness of the number eight in traditional beliefs.
The Perth Mint – New Product Releases : Coin Collecting News
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V. -- Your own fortune, father-in-law (in certain kinds of society they say _papa father-in-law_) yielding an income of twenty thousand, and which will soon be increased by an inheritance.
Analytical Studies
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We are trying to make our fortune, or as the French more correctly express it, _Nous corrigous notre fortune_.
A Conspiracy of the Carbonari
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He used a mallet to crack open a case of wine in a ritual said to bring harmony and good fortune.
The Sun
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No fence against (an) ill fortune.
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It has been my experience, and sometimes misfortune, that rubber grips attract and hold moisture underneath, promoting rust.
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You display great attention to detail which can be considered good fortune or a curse when it comes to relationships.
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He was slavering after that small fortune.
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You won't have to lay out a fortune for this dining table.
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The London Market's fortunes continued to see-saw yesterday as the City digested yet another dramatic session.
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The end of the depression in 1878 and the government's resumption of specie payments (the gold standard) in 1879 had sapped the party's fortunes.
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By a stroke of fortune he found work almost immediately.
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Other internal names for it were “psychic” and “Miss Cleo,” in tribute to a television fortune-teller.
In the Plex
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Yet these surges pale beside the rise in the global elite fortunes.
Times, Sunday Times
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In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. he becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It hasoften been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do.
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Here's hoping, that, someday in the not too distant future, the misfortunes of Fantine will only be found in stories and never more in real life.
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Fortune to one is mother, to another is stepmother.
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The plot is thus: Madame Fate, a mysterious fortune teller, has foreseen her own death through her crystal ball with only 24 hours before the allotted hour.
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What price fame and fortune?
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In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. he becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It hasoften been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do.
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I had my fortune told by Gypsy Rose at the fair.
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He has the odd misfortune of repeatedly hiring party stooges for key assignments who stab him in the back as soon as they leave his employ.
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Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education.
Chapter 3
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He was not a harmless old drunk, but a bigoted, racist reactionary who made a fortune from the oil industry.
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His was the good fortune to witness Sheppard's encounter with the topsman, and to shrive the battered soul of Jonathan Wild.
A Book of Scoundrels
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Now the two tech icons are running neck and neck -- a reversal of fortune the bloggerati are inclined to ascribe to a combination of Steve Jobs 'genius and Microsoft's flatfootedness.
Microsoft Slumps As Apple Trumps
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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The witch took the stick, waved it at the girl and said: "then this is your fortune; _through the woods and through the woods and out with a crooked stick_.
Woodland Tales
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The son brings a small mound of rice, water, and flowers or fruit, and beseeches his forebears to keep their protective watch over the family and its fortunes.
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You can make fortune by ways that u don't like, and can get cured by medicine that u don't believe, but u can never feel happy from someone you don't love.
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The company suffered a great reversal of fortunes when public taste changed.
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The personal fortunes of today's rich are reaching record heights.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was too conceited to realize the great fortune that had befallen him, but smart enough to cherish Kitty.
IN A STRANGE CITY
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The RSPB reports that, despite the upturns in the fortune of many birds of prey in recent years, the hen harrier remains a seriously threatened species.
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Outside of the cities the monarch, whose private fortune was identical with the state finances, possessed immense domains managed by intendants and supporting a population of serf-colonists.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Obamacare Constitutional?
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Sporting chance of a fortune?
Times, Sunday Times
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You make my heart smile. In such a soft and warm season, please accept my sincere blessing and deep concern for you. For our ever-lasting friendship, send sincere blessings and warm greetings to my friends whom I miss so much. Wish you a happy new year and a good fortune in the coming year when we will share our happiness, think of our good friends, and our dreams come true!
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Hong Kong ranked first in Fortune's annual ranking of the best cities for business in Asia this year, the international magazine said in a statement Wednesday.
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Her sober, kindly capableness evolved from the slovenly little house and the untended children, from the dusty rooms and neglected kitchen the kind of order and neatness which had been plain to see in Robin's more fortune-favoured apartment.
Robin
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Honorius could remain insensible of the public disgrace, he might perhaps be affected by the personal misfortunes of his generous kinsmen.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others.
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As a modern parent, I know that it's not how much you give children those counts, it's the love and attention you shower on them.A caring attitude can not only save you a small fortune, but also even make you feel good about being tight-fisted and offering more care than presents.
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He left home while still a child, seeking his fortune in London, where he worked variously as a kitchen hand and hotel pageboy, and later as an actor and stagehand.
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As there be tides in the affairs of men which taken at the flood lead on to fortune, so there be waves which straddled at the proper time will bear a Halliwell on their niveous crest to the dizzy heights of fame, quicker'n the nictitation of a thomas-cat.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
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The allegedly mad bedder of women enjoyed a $2.5 billion increase in his fortune, to $9 billion.
Soccer's Billionaires
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Fortune often rewards with interest those that have patience to wait for her.
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But this hatred mainly comes from the magpie's reputation as an omen of ill fortune.
The Sun
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He has made his fortunes from property interests and currency trading.
The Sun
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My purpose is to show that poverty and misfortune make no invidious distinctions of “race, color, or previous condition,” but that wealth unduly centralized oppresses all alike; therefore, that the labor elements of the whole United States should sympathize with the same elements in the South, and in some favorable contingency effect some unity of organization and action, which shall subserve the common interest of the common class.
Black and White
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Yet all of the various elements which have historically been assigned to Fortune, Fate, and Chance are gathered into a single providential system of which the fortuitous is a part.
FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE
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They might dwell upon the fact that you were so much together, and that you had such opportunities -- mark me, Reginald, _opportunities_ -- for tampering with the one solitary life which stood between you and fortune.
Run to Earth A Novel
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He will regard your presence as an omen of good fortune.
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She had the good fortune to be free from illness.
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Whilst his hours were passed in studious retirement, the empress, resolute to achieve the generous design which she had undertaken, was not unmindful of the care of his fortune.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The celebrations are expected to be modest and low-key, a reflection of the falling economic fortunes of the territory.
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Carne (who had taken most kindly to the fortune which made him an untrue Englishman) clapped his breast with both hands; not proudly, as a Frenchman does, nor yet with that abashment and contempt of demonstration which make a true Briton very clumsy in such doings; while Daniel Tugwell, being very solid, and by no means “emotional” — as people call it nowadays — was looking at him, to the utmost of his power
Springhaven
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A good heart conquers ill fortune.
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The Leinster champions had another slice of good fortune when a poor point attempt by Sheridan fell short but hopped over the bar for a point.
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Needless to say, losing one's source of income at a young age is a devastating personal misfortune.
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Some inspired driving and mechanical misfortunes for others saw Moss bring the green car home in front.
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I have the misfortune to live between a blinding, yellow concrete monstrosity on one side and an unkempt, dirty, semi-paved yard on the other.
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In the opener, they meet a family who lost a fortune after a builder botched a job and fled with the cash.
The Sun
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Not only was this rather fanciful with six mouths to feed, but I ended up spending a fortune at the local farm shop.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of course, he has health insurance, and he has made a fortune off insurance lobbyists and pharmaceuticals to "alleviate" their liability in lawsuits.
McConnell: Public option a nonstarter for Senate Republicans
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Another victim of the changing fortunes of war was Nedeltcho Bontchev, best remembered as the flier who miraculously survived a collision between his aircraft and an Allied bomber.
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Where is the incentive to act responsibly by trying to safeguard against the financial consequences of life's misfortunes?
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A fortune-teller had given Declan the charm, telling him to keep it close to his heart for luck.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior
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Several crumbling mansions also echo the misfortunes of wastrel sons who blew their patrimony on (as one local tells me), ‘fast women and slow horses’.
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The old castle and fortress of Guevara is perched on the crown of what Captain Dalgetty would call a monticle, rising very abruptly out of the most arid and dry plain it was ever my fortune to visit.
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Small steps could make a big difference; by having cupboards painted instead of replaced you can save a fortune.
Times, Sunday Times
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We even visited the walkway at night with the good fortune of looking down on one of the rarest birds of our trip, a brown nightjar, a not too distant relative of our whippoorwill, but a very rare and little-known bird.
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Fortune changes all; and those who discovered the circulation of the blood, the lacteal veins, and the thoracic canal, are the servants of those who have learned what concomitant grace is, and have forgotten it.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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The legend that he amassed a large fortune in gold and jewels is certainly false.
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Visually you can picture this as some kind of burbling pot where the foam that rises brings the violent ones to the surface and the more moderate ones remain at the bottom of the pot and receive whatever misfortunes trickle down from the bomb throwing ones who flourish at the top of the pot.
When Is a Shoah not a Shoah?
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It starred feuding relatives and featured a lengthy court battle and a disappearing fortune.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are two sure ways of making a fortune in art: buy an undervalued old master, or a Cremona stringed instrument.
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While that may be true for a minority, most people with debt problems simply lost their job or suffered some other misfortune.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the aftermath of a credit crunch, with banks across the world still woefully undercapitalised, still paying fortunes in bonuses and still not accepting the full write-offs on their pre-2008 lending, this is especially worrying.
Don't blame the euro for the ills besetting Ireland's economy
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There are magnificent avenues of elm-trees, great gardens encircled by the moat, and a circumference of walls about a huge manorial pile which represents the profits of the maltote, the gains of farmers-general, legalized malversation, or the vast fortunes of great houses now brought low beneath the hammer of the Civil Code.
A Woman of Thirty
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He leeched his father for his fortune.
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Much of the fortune of Dundee was founded on its jute mills and other textile industries, and its jute barons once competed with each other to build grand houses.
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I decided to be happy every day no matter what comes, discomfort or misfortune.
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The whole system looked like a proper dog's dinner and it cost a fortune to set up.
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It was my misfortune to attend a ceremony in Pusan.
KoreaToday
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But the other day, when first I beheld thee, whether it proceeded from thy happinesse in fortune, or the fatall houre of my owne infelicity for ever, I know not; I conceyved such an effectuall kinde of liking towardes thee, as never did Woman love a man more truely then I doe thee having sworn within my soule to make thee my
The Decameron
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Too often, free flowing emotions of sympathy dissipate with the initial fascination, without confronting the long-term consequences of misfortune.
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He is wise who is warned by the misfortunes of others.
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Her "Willisville" online community, a wildly inventive precursor to something like Second Life, was devised with partner Prudence Fenton in the early 1990s -- years before most Americans even had AOL dial-up access or knew what a social network was -- and lauded by Fortune magazine as one of the emerging Internet's most exciting companies.
Kristi York Wooten: Legendary Songwriter Allee Willis Brings Her Party to the People
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The worst misfortunes are these that never hzppen.
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Their vast fortune has dwindled away.
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This good fortune is attributed to the owner, Mrs. Viola Vickham, an avowed Francophobe who refused to buy or serve any French imports, including the infamous "adverse cam(em)ber(t).
Archive 2006-08-01
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Whom changeful Fortune martyrs, guides and thralls!
The Age Reviewed
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They'd blown a fortune downlinking the relays to ground-level stations with omnidirectional antennae.
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Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.
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Fame and fortune brought him a jet-set lifestyle and entry to the celebrity world.
Times, Sunday Times
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Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals it.
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For Christmas or New Year's, fortunes in the form of coins, cornel cherry twigs, or slips of paper are inserted in banitsa or bread.
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Her father bequeathed her the family fortune in his will.
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Fortune knocks once at least at every man’s door.
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I hear that the night that Charles sat up at White's, which was that preceding the night of Lady Holland's death, he planned out a kind of itinerant trade, which was going from horse race to horse race, and so, by knowing the value and speed of all the horses in England, to acquire a certain fortune.
George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
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I don't know how the future will take us, how we will fly on the wings and winds of fate and fortune.
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As a modern parent, I know that it's not how much you give children those counts, it's the love and attention you shower on them.A caring attitude can not only save you a small fortune, but also even make you feel good about being tight-fisted and offering more care than presents.
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Had they swayed the sceptre justly, they had been repaid the like, But they were unjust, and Fortune guerdoned them with dole and teen.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I
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Schadenfreude -- a German word for glee over the misfortune of others -- is actually as American as casino gambling.
The Fame Game: Why Everyone's Gloating
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It was here that the Scottish steel baron, who made his fortune in America before turning philanthropist to the poor, threw his famed house parties for the great and the good.
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And in just one respect, Britain was the architect of its own misfortune.
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The interview could hardly have ended more auspiciously for Tito, and as he walked out at the Porta Pinti that he might laugh a little at his ease over the affair of the _culex_, he felt that fortune could hardly mean to turn her back on him again at present, since she had taken him by the hand in this decided way.
Romola
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Commissioned by the U.S. government to create a powered aircraft, Langley spent a fortune developing airframes and engines.
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For the next thing that was heard of her, and that by a mere chance, was that she was marred to Mynheer van Hunker, 'a rascallion of an old half-bred Dutchman, 'as my hot-tongued sister called him, who had come over to fatten on our misfortunes by buying up the cavaliers' plate and jewels, and lending them money on their estates.
Stray Pearls
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The late Earl passed on much of his fortune to his daughter.
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For example, one should not talk of death, dying or misfortune and not reminisce about the past year, as this is a new year and a new beginning.
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The United States has always acted as a magnet for people seeking fame and fortune.
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In some southern areas of China they are made in the shape of the gold and silver ingots (yuan bao) that were used as money in ancient China; this augurs good fortune as well as good eating.
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Finding the missing parts has been a lucky blending of good fortune and good detective work.
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Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the King during his mayoralty.
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Meanwhile, aids-de-camp galloped along the lines, announcing the arrival of Grouchy, to reanimate the drooping spirits of the men; for, at last, a doubt of victory was breaking upon the minds of those who never before, in the most adverse hour of fortune, deemed _his_ star could set that led them on to glory.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
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“No wonder,” he thought, “if, courted by the son of a proud and powerful baron, she can no longer spare a word or look to the poor fortuneless page.”
The Abbot
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He lashed out half his fortune on his daughter's wedding.
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The occasion was the opening-night dinner of Fortune magazine's Most Powerful Women Summit, a three-day estrogen-flavored wonkfest: Geena Davis lecturing the female execs and entrepreneurs on gender in media, Melody Barnes and Michelle Rhee holding forth on education, Trudie Styler teaching 6 a.m. yoga.
Nora Ephron tries to draw out Nancy Pelosi at Fortune's "Most Powerful Women Summit"
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The fortunes of the traditional coir yarn spinners, mat weavers and carpet-makers have been on the downtrend.
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It costs a fortune to fly first class.
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That move is widely credited with reversing the airlines sagging financial fortunes.
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I used to joke that Fortune 500 companies can spend well over $250 million dollars on building a world-class brand, only to hand their social media presence over to "an intern for the summer," and watch it destruct in a matter of weeks.
Beverly Macy: Is Your Company Smart Enough for Social Media?
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To really understand a man we must judge him in misfortune.
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Online stores have plus sizes in swimwear from designers that would cost you a fortune at a regular store.
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Most people who follow sport know enough not to gloat: your own misfortunes will follow soon enough.
Times, Sunday Times
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We got through a fortune while we were on holiday!
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To the left there was a wheel of fortune and some pool tables and in the far corner stood an upright piano.
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Grann notes that in 1753 a Portuguese bandeirante - a soldier of fortune - emerged from the Amazon jungle and described how, "after a long and troublesome peregrination, incited by the insatiable greed of gold", he had seen the ruins of an ancient city from a mountain top.
Signs of the Times
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It's a tough gig best described by paraphrasing the old joke about farming: If you want to make a small fortune free-lancing, start with a large fortune.
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Wishing you good fortune in the new year.
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As a modern parent, I know that it's not how much you give children those counts, it's the love and attention you shower on them.A caring attitude can not only save you a small fortune, but also even make you feel good about being tight-fisted and offering more care than presents.
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So let’s save a fortune and bin free prescriptions of drugs like methadone, nitrazepam and diazepam.
Sympathy For The Devil « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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When Patrick Douglas, the learned and honoured, but fortuneless soldier, found that his new competitor for the hand of the gentle Jolande was none other than his sovereign, he was dumb with despair, and the last, the miserable _hope_ which it imparts, and which maketh wretched, began to leave him.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17
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The arrival of the parlours coincided with the precipitous drop in Japanese fortunes.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have, God be praised, learned to admire, and not envy every one that outgoes me: and this will, I hope, go a great way in making me easy and happy under the pressures of a very narrow fortune, and amidst the ruffles of an ill-natured world.
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions
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Fortune favours the bold - not the weak and indecisive.
Times, Sunday Times
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We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune. Alexandre Dumas
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We didn't make a fortune, but we earned a few bob.
Times, Sunday Times
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To cap Flanagan's misfortune, he punctured with 15 miles to go and there was an immediate charge from the front of his bunch, capitalising on his ill luck.
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Fortune cookies are fun for dessert.
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It looked like a sop thrown to the minority, yet another hostage to fortune.
Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
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Whilst the halcyon days of the past are unlikely to return in the professional era, there are now at least some encouraging signs of a revival in the fortunes of these once great clubs.
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He made a small fortune in the London property boom.
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This win could prove to be a historic turning point in the fortunes of the team.
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This win could prove to be a historic turning point in the fortunes of the team.