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Example sentences for "little fortune"

  • He owned with contrition that his irregularities and his extravagance had already wasted a large part of his mother's little fortune.

  • You made me miss a fine investment before the election of the First Consul,--an investment which would have given me a little fortune.

  • I feel for having dissipated my little fortune!

  • I have scarce yet asked myself what I intend; but I think it will be most prudent to return to England in the first ship, and retire to a relation of my mother's in the country, where I can live with decency on my little fortune.

  • I took a room in the house, and determined to give all my attention to the restoration of her health; after which, I hoped to contrive to make my little fortune, with industry, support us both.

  • Every real pleasure is within the reach of my little fortune, and I am very indifferent about those which borrow their charms, not from nature, but from fashion and caprice.

  • Oh, Joe, I'm so glad I have inherited a little fortune.

  • The rest of my little fortune, you know, is in stocks and bonds.

  • She just inherited a little fortune," explained Bill in a whispered aside to the medical man.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    little and; little apart; little bit; little boy; little clearing; little corner; little danger; little excitement; little flock; little game; little good; little groups; little honey; little house; little ketchup; little laugh; little maiden; little master; little older; little over; little pleasure; little shiver; little snow; little tired; little white; usually said