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Example sentences for "considerable fortune"

  • Having amassed a considerable fortune, he determined to retire from trade, and in 1805 purchased the fine old manor-house at Harrow, which for some time was one of the residences of the Archbishops of Canterbury.

  • In a few years he amassed a considerable fortune.

  • From this time, she discouraged her son's marriage with Pauline, and endeavoured to turn his thoughts towards Louise Thibaudier, who had a considerable fortune.

  • His father, who had amassed a considerable fortune by usury, sent him to study law in Paris, giving him an allowance of only a hundred francs a month.

  • She married Eugene Rougon, to whom she brought a considerable fortune.

  • The moment he had obtained a considerable fortune, he repaired to the West End, added the name of Greenwood to his other appellations, and thus commenced, as it were, a new existence in a new sphere.

  • I have assumed the name of Greenwood, remember, because a relation of that name has left me a considerable fortune.

  • Notwithstanding these difficulties, he acquired a considerable fortune, and was several years in parliament; he was also a Fellow of the Royal Society.

  • Michael Banim had acquired a considerable fortune which he lost in 1840 through the bankruptcy of a firm with which he had business relations.

  • After serving an apprenticeship with a bookseller, he devised a system of instructing the deaf and dumb, by the practice of which he made a considerable fortune.

  • After so eventful a life, the painter died peaceably enough in his fifty-ninth year, of dropsy, at Rome, and left a considerable fortune to his only son.

  • He had a house in Rome, and a villa in the neighbourhood, and on his death left a considerable fortune to his heirs.

  • O'Brien had now realised a considerable fortune, and he resolved to retire from the public gaze.

  • Flockton died in 1794, at Peckham, where he had lived for several years in comfort and respectability, having realised what was then regarded as a considerable fortune.

  • After a successful season in London, he sold some of the animals, and made a provincial tour with the rest, rapidly accumulating a considerable fortune.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    considerable antiquity; considerable booty; considerable depth; considerable difference; considerable distance from the; considerable distances; considerable force; considerable height; considerable length; considerable majority; considerable measure; considerable pause; considerable period; considerable portion; considerable property; considerable quantities; considerable size; considerable thickness; excellent food; former navigators; manifesting itself; private sitting; said somebody; second cousin; smaller scale; voltaic cell