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Example sentences for "fortin"

Lexicographically close words:
fortified; fortifieng; fortifies; fortify; fortifying; fortior; fortiori; fortis; fortissimo; fortiter
  1. Why don't everybody go to the mines and dig up their fortin at wance?

  2. Nevertheless I have hear'd o' men makin' an awful heap o' money that way; partiklarly wan man that made his fortin with wan stone.

  3. Yes, I know, Monsieur Fortin often repeated it.

  4. It was Monsieur Fortin who taught me that.

  5. I asked Monsieur Fortin what a spiritual sister was, and he told me that they used formerly to call women so who lived with priests.

  6. I know it, Veronica; your behaviour is full of decency and dignity: it is well for the outside world, and as Monsieur Fortin used to say to you, we must wash our dirty linen at home.

  7. Monsieur Fortin used to say to me: "Are we doing evil to our neighbours, Veronica?

  8. He came one day to see Monsieur Fortin (may God keep his soul) regarding a collection for his church.

  9. Monsieur Fortin had not so many scruples.

  10. One evening then Monsieur Fortin had drunk at table a little more than usual.

  11. If we can call it a fault, as Monsieur Fortin used to say.

  12. Was it not better for me to act thus, than to let Monsieur Fortin run right and left and expose himself to all sorts of affronts, as some do?

  13. Monsieur Fortin was accustomed to say that no one is a great man to his valet de chambre; and I add, that no one is a saint to his cook.

  14. Monsieur Fortin and I often asked ourselves what evil that could do to God, when neither of us did any to other people.

  15. Le Bihan was there, an image of helplessness, and Max Fortin stood beside him polishing his glasses.

  16. Fortin saw what I saw; let him talk about it.

  17. Max Fortin says it's human blood, or I should not have believed it.

  18. Soon after Le Bihan and Max Fortin also departed in the mayor's dingy dog-cart.

  19. My mother shan't cheat the poor souls out of their fortin neither.

  20. By the end of August he reported to headquarters that the light was all right, and that Fortin was qualified to be appointed keeper.

  21. Fortin could not deny it; but the thing that hurt him most was that he got so little sympathy.

  22. When the time arrived to kindle the light again in the spring, Fortin could have had any one that he wanted to help him.

  23. Fortin himself took the longest spell at the crank, of course.

  24. They thought that Fortin was swearing a shade too hard.

  25. Fortin ran out of the tower, took off his hat, and began to say his prayers.

  26. The next day Fortin spent two hours in trying to repair the clockwork.

  27. Fortin represented the party of progress in the little parliament of the beach.

  28. But Fortin said it must be done, and he knew best.

  29. A little plan for making money; that's the right sort o' plan for young folks as have got their fortin to make, eh, Jane?

  30. Let us see whether you can do better than I can, as have made my fortin without it.

  31. Like Bonne and Lalande, who labored jointly in the construction of terrestrial and celestial globes, Messier and Fortin were active in the same field.

  32. Monsieur Le Bihan and Monsieur Fortin are above in the broad room.

  33. Le Bihan was there, an image of helplessness, and Max Fortin stood beside him, polishing his glasses.

  34. Jean Marie Tregunc, who found the bones, was standing there where Max Fortin stands, and do you know what he answered?

  35. No," replied Fortin solemnly, "it is written in Breton.

  36. There was the case of the Purple Emperor," said Max Fortin timidly.

  37. Fortin opened his mouth to speak again, hesitated, and finally shut his teeth obstinately over the wheat stem that he was chewing.

  38. I, "what do you do for your salary except play dominoes with Max Fortin at the Groix Inn?

  39. They're all cork lined," he said, "but Fortin and I are putting felt around each box.

  40. When I knocked at the door of the broad room above little Max Fortin opened it.

  41. Fortin watched me as I closed the pepper-box arrangement over the glowing bowl of the pipe.

  42. Fortin asked me what I had done to aid the Revolution.

  43. When fickle frends and fickler fortin fales, Dogs, unfickle still, for you will wag their tales.

  44. Ef I was that indifferent to havin' invested my fortin in the good will o' this house, and not ez much ez a single transient lookin' in, I could lie down and take comfort in profane literatoor.

  45. It may make your fortin yet, or save ye from a drunkard's grave.

  46. A man of Mr. Carver's fortin to be slaving!

  47. Come to count 'em over, Miry had the best fortin of the whole, as 'twas right and proper she should.

  48. She ain't much used ter havin' a fortin drapped in her lap.

  49. There's a fortin in it," he whispered under his breath.

  50. Then I got the new cook at Pennington to come to mawther and 'ave 'er fortin tould; then mawther an' me wormed out oal she knawed 'bout the things up to Pennington.

  51. Fortin straightened herself up like an old warhorse that hears the sound of the bugle.

  52. I was half asleep at the time; but Fortin can tell us.

  53. Fortin had long ago come up and put out the gas on the stairs.

  54. Fortin and his wife more supple than gloves, and more gentle than doves.

  55. Fortin to Maxence, with her pleasantest smile, as soon as she had seen him emerge from the shades of the corridor.

  56. Fortin made to remain silent gave, better than any thing else, an idea of the terror with which the commissary inspired her.

  57. Fortin and her husband were trying to frighten me.

  58. Fortin who was despatched to the Rue du Cirque, and who went off muttering, though he had received five francs to take a carriage, and five francs for his trouble.

  59. Fortin to him, "all is made up again, it seems.

  60. Fortin squarely refused him his key, and invited him to seek shelter elsewhere.

  61. Fortin had had the delicacy not to tarry on the way.

  62. Fortin was again at the door, speechifying in the midst of a group with indefatigable volubility.

  63. Fortin told him, and had not yet returned; but she could not be much longer, as it was already getting dark.

  64. Fortin refused obstinately to take it out, under the pretext that it gave such a comfortable appearance to the apartment.

  65. Fortin were just finishing their breakfast with an immense bowl of coffee of doubtful color, of which an enormous red cat was taking a share.

  66. There's the way Henderson's cartin' off the childer's bit of food to make his fine fortin in England.

  67. No, I'll not take the fortin from you, any how.

  68. But it is hard your honour should be astray for want of the fortin you've been bred to; and this weighs with me greatly on the other side.


  69. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fortin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.