He is supposed to possess very extraordinary powers, which, added to his large fortune and ancient name, have procured him a consideration and rank rarely enjoyed by one so young.
They alone are independent of Fortune who have made themselves a separate existence from the world.
George had always believed that she had inherited a fortune from his father.
They are brokers, and there are so many short cuts to fortune in that business!
This day John Stewart and I had a pleasing ramble, but fortune changed the scene in the close of it.
Powel's and Walden's, and were approaching Cumberland mountain when this adverse fortune overtook us.
Who shall say that fortune grieves him, While the star of hope she leaves him?
Sir Simon de Montfort my subject shall be; Once chief of all the great barons was he, Yet fortuneso cruel this lord did abase, Now lost and forgotten are he and his race.
Cause her fortune seems too high, Shall I play the fool and die?
He is called the man of greatest gratification, who sustains all the ups and downs of fortune with equal fortitude, as deep sea contains its boisterous waves in its fathomless depth.
Apply your mind to what is beyond your comprehension, which is the holy light, which is the root and source of all, and wherein consists all our best fortune and the ambrosial food for our souls.
It was by his observance of equanimity, that he enjoyed the peaceful reign of above a thousand years; and had the good fortuneto live and die together with the princess, with whom he became extinct in the deity at last.
Blessed are those eminent souls (great men), that have the good fortune to behold your most venerable person, which in respect of antiquity is next to none, expect the great grandfather of the gods the lotus born Brahma himself.
How could the tide of my fortune run so high at once, that I should succeed so soon to obtain the precious stone, that is the pink and acme of perfection and productive of all treasure.
There must be few and very few indeed of those fortunate men, who can expect their good fortune to court and wait on them; at a little pains in a short time.
I was looking at a miniature of the Farnese Hercules--I wondered what it meant, what club had struck the wheel of my fortune and whirled it into this astounding attitude.
But envy was at work, and all too soon was Siegfried's good fortune brought to an end.
He was in the highest spirits at his good fortune in having found such a capital thing in which to bring home potatoes.
Happy, innocent Psyche, never doubting that her sisters were as pleased at her good fortune as she would have been at theirs, came to lead them to another room, but her sister detained her.
Seward had determined to give up himself and his fortune "to assist Whitefield in his generous undertaking;"[343] but the Divine Ruler ordered it to be otherwise.
Whitefield had many friends; but, as was natural, he also had the fortune of having foes.
He came to make his fortune there, or to increase it.
But the tide of fortune was not always in his favour.
He concludes: "It would be uncandid to detail only instances of the brutality of the lower orders, whilst evidence is forthcoming of persons of fortune and education being still more brutalized by its deleterious spirit.
It was his peculiar good fortune always to be associated with artists of the highest ability.
The marshal, a most extraordinary personage, would make in actual life the fortune of any enterprising showman.
Liszt took him everywhere where there was a possibility of a fortune being found.
It seems that Winterberger, after running through everything, had on the strength of some of Liszt's introductions started off to seek his fortune in Hungary.
Interesting strangers sought me out, in the hope that they, too, might attain to equal fortune through knowing me.
At last the dreaded American crisis happily blew over, and it was soon apparent that Wesendonck's fortune had considerably increased.
I at once saw it was useless to think any more of taking up my residence at the Austrian embassy, and I was left to reflect on the strange freak of fortune that had again cast me adrift in this ill-omened Paris.
The news reached him here of the sudden death of a rich uncle, who had left a considerable fortune to every member of Karl's family.
Do you know that this letter means a fortune for you, and incidentally, perhaps, also one for me; but certainly a fortune for you.
It looked as if a thousand pounds would be a fortune to Nora Lindsay; a windfall from the skies; manna from heaven, which would at least preserve her from starvation.
But thou canst not be suffered to forget that my fortune is but three hundred pound by the year; and I have yet three daughters to portion.
I shall win my fortune at that game, Austin, if thou deny not thy debts of honour.
His good fortune is that he has been able to sustain his thesis very credibly, and that he has taken high rank in his class.
Ordinarily he would sit down to table with an oath, growled out from the very bottom of his chest, and brag, between every two mouthfuls, of his good fortune with the ladies as a vieux brave.
His father had died when Day was a year old, and had left him a fortune of £1,200 a year.
At the end of eight months, he "perceived that the people began to cool in their affections towards him, and he therefore wisely determined to leave them for a little, and try his fortune again upon the continent.
I am thinking how I shall marry a lady of the highest distinction, with a fortune of a hundred thousand pounds.
Tell me, dear Erskine, should not I My favourite path of fortune try?
He had made a handsome fortune in the East Indies; and having had a remarkable warmth in the cause of liberty during his whole life, he shewed it in the strongest manner in his last will.
What I said had the good fortune to touch them, and several of them repeated the same sentiments much better than I could do.
Many stories are related to explain this discovery, but as they are all more pleasing than convincing, it seems best to credit Dame Fortune with this valuable assistant to the glazier.
We took the places of honor reserved for us at a bench and table under the patio veranda beside the chief of police, an American soldier of fortune named Lee Christmas.
I had the good fortune to fall in with a river so large I was able to swim three strokes in one of its pools, and strolled with dusk into the town of Flores on the edge of the first foothills of the ranges still to be surmounted.
In due course, the lady came to hear of the English slave-owner, who ruled the desert-city and was making a great fortune out of the labours of his slaves.
He had made his great fortune out of the work of the men employed as slaves, and--she turned away to the window with a dejected air.
When he is blotted out, his fortuneshould go where it can remedy the evil of his life.
You, for instance, could make use of a fortune like his in a cause like that, could you not?
You mean that the fortune should be spent in buying the decree--in backsheesh?
The fortune would all go, of course, but think of the good accomplished!
The whole of the fortune was not earned by slaves.
But you surely can see how the fortune could be applied to saving those races from slavery.
She was doing all for this man, against whose influence she had laboured, whom she had bitterly condemned, and whose fortune she had called blood-money and worse.
If I were to predict your fortuneby the vain calculations of the astrologer, I should tell you, in their despicable jargon, that my planet sat darkly in your house of life.
Clarence Glyndon, with an easy fortune while single, has a large family which his fortune, unaided by marriage, can just rear up to callings more plebeian than his own.
The owner had lavished a fortune in the purchase of unsalable treasures.
So, without a ducat in my pocket or a crust for my teeth, I set out to seek my fortune on board of a Spanish merchantman.
The admiral is a most entertaining man, and his fortune is entirely at his own disposal.
Clarence Glyndon returns to England; he marries a lady of fortune equal to his own, of friends and parentage that advance rational ambition.
And what in the fortune and circumstance of his life?
It is because things happen to them, because we are glad of their good fortune or apprehensive of evil for them, that the incidents in their succession gain importance in our emotions.
We worked together to lay the foundation for a--well, for the fortune we now possess.
They create a pretty solid fortune for my family,--that is to say, for my daughter and her children.
As for the furnishings, I can assure you that the entire Blithers fortune could not replace them if they were to be destroyed by fire or pillage.
We have wondered not a little at your readiness to invest such a fortune in our securities.
He had to be content with a view of the most exquisite back and shoulders that good fortune had ever allowed him to gaze upon.
Well, it seems to me, she will be capable of taking care of her fortune a great deal more successfully than you imagine, Mr. Blithers.
From the wrecks of his fortunehe can look down and see stately monuments built from the stones of that dismantled edifice.
Then, after all, it was a ridiculous position, to be smoked out of your fortune with brimstone, as soon as you had made it.
He then argued with the other most vehemently upon the imprudence of trusting his whole fortune to any private banking-house, urging him to lodge the sum in the Bank of England.
I was very young, almost a lad, indeed, but I had invested the whole of my small fortune in the concern.
Fortune comes in a flood, continues Dumas, for the next day my young friend found an advantageous place, with fifteen thousand francs a year.
He put in my hands a letter from a distinguished gentleman of the country, of large fortune and of high character.
My fortune which has preserved me so often on the field of battle, will continue to preserve me.
I am passionately fond of them, and can well understand the Dutchman lavishing a fortune upon a tulip, and spending a life in giving it some new variety of tint.
They were indebted to him for their prosperity, and he owed to them the increase offortune and of fame.
I asked of fortune only that I might live to see you, to tell you as man, the delightful hours my youth owed to you, and now my bright hope is realized.
Mr. Lithgow, however, deserves a fortunefor his wit.
She forgot for the moment that her own fortune was to depend on the success of those designs.
Now Fortune capricious Looks down on the back of great Pompey retreating in terror!
Sterile and ignobly prized is the wood But round it is gathered a company sodden with wine; And soldiers of fortune whose weapons have rusted, devour The spoils of the world.
Three chieftains did fortune bring forth, whom the fury of battles Destroyed; and interred, each one under a mountain of weapons; The Parthian has Crassus, Pompeius the Great by the waters Of Egypt lies.
Divided into millionaires and mendicants, the poor man's son becomes feverish to make a showy fortune by fair means or by foul, while his daughter looks with envious eye upon m'lady, follows her fashions and too often apes her morals.
She had probably never seen a hundred dollar bill until permitted to finger the fortune of the profane old ferryman who founded her husband's aristocratic family.
Happy for the daydreamer if her fairy prince, or somewhat her fond imaginings can accept as such, lays heart and fortune at her feet; sorrowful indeed if he come not, worse if he materialize and have eyes only for others.
I never had the good fortuneto be accompanied by a well-trained dog; but only by young ones new to the sport.
A great many young fellows who come out here no doubt do not meet with the fortune they think they deserve.
Kangaroo-hunting is one of the great sports of Victoria, but it was not my fortune to see a hunt of this sort.
Many a large fortune has been made at a rude bar of this sort.
But there were others full of life and health among the passengers, going out in search of fortune or of pleasure.
They are so accustomed to a sudden turn of luck--good or ill, as the case may be--that the good fortune on this occasion seemed to be taken as a matter of course.
