Fortunes

Examples

• Economic history deals with the activities, the career, and fortunes of the common man as does no other branch of history. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• She does her best to destroy my fortunes and her own, and she won't reproach me! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Bale ties themselves have received great attention from inventors, and the most successful have won fortunes for their owners. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Look in the--what was its name when you told fortunes with your brother that I DON'T like? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• For some changes in the fortunes of my friends, I was prepared. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It was the last asset in their fortunes, the nucleus around which their life was to be rebuilt. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• They studied the stars--to tell fortunes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• People's lives and fortunes depend on them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays, men have to work and women marry for money. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• His fortunes are more or less at stake in the issue of events. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It is natural to her to be a lady; she has adapted herself to our new fortunes with wonderful ease. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Five hundred pounds would be a prodigious increase to their fortunes! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• It is surprising how many large enterprises and fortunes depend upon some few simple trade secrets the knowledge of which has baffled competition and crushed all rivalry. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Yet she knew that he took a great interest in Lizzie and her fortunes. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• So persons vainly reason when their minds are already made up and their fortunes irrevocably linked together. Plato. The Republic.
• I said, they were fellows of desperate fortunes, forced to fly from the places of their birth on account of their poverty or their crimes. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Civil disturbance had become a custom in Athens; the fortunes of the city seemed given over to strife of factions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I fear he is not to be reclaimed; there is scarcely a hope that anything in his character or fortunes is reparable now. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Without these there might never have been the romance of Coppers and the rise and fall of countless fortunes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She had several times been in love with fortunes or careers, but only once with a man. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He is crible de dettes--he must repair his fortunes, and succeed in the world. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• We will not attempt to trace the fluctuating fortunes of the Sassanids during the next three centuries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Contradictory things to wish,' said Bella, 'but my life and fortunes are so contradictory altogether that what can I expect myself to be! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• During the period of the Consulate, the First Consul was very active in advancing the fortunes of his brothers and sisters. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes, which cannot endure apart from religion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Mr. Thornton declined having any share in a partnership, which would frustrate what few plans he had that survived the wreck of his fortunes. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Fortunes were spent in experimenting with other materials until at last the famous mineralite ball was perfected. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• My remaining stock I carried with me, part in money and part in goods, in hopes to improve my fortunes. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• For when a man is at the foot of the hill in his fortunes, he may stay a long while there in spite of professional accomplishment. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Before separating it was definitely understood that at a convenient time we would join our fortunes, and not let the removal of a regiment trouble us. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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