"Fortune" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it looked as if Ruth might favour him, and Richard's fears assumed more definite shape. If Wilding married her—and he was a bold, masterful fellow who usually accomplished what he aimed at—her fortune and estate must cease to be a pleasant pasture land for bovine Richard. The boy thought at first of making terms with Wilding; the idea was old; it had come to him when first he had counted the chances of his sister's ...
— Mistress Wilding • Rafael Sabatini
... her position a highly-favoured one, for her aunt would no doubt leave her her fortune and estate when she died; for she had already as good as adopted her niece, from whom she received all the attention and watchful tenderness which she needed continually, by reason of age and manifold infirmities. But while our ...
— Working in the Shade - Lowly Sowing brings Glorious Reaping • Theodore P Wilson
... views of the potentiality of compound interest, we now give a brief account of a singular attempt made in France to put them in practice, and by their omnipotence pay our national debt and that of other nations too, out of a small private fortune. In the year 1794, a will was registered in France by one Fortune Ricard, disposing of a sum of 500 livres, a little more than L.20 sterling. Fortune stated that this sum was the result of a present of twenty-four ...
— Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, No. 421, New Series, Jan. 24, 1852 • Various
... father is bereft of a fortune, sir; but I must hesitate till his fiat is obtained, as much as if ...
— John Bull - The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts • George Colman
... empire. They frankly confessed their royal origin, and their near relation to the Messiah; but they disclaimed any temporal views, and professed that his kingdom, which they devoutly expected, was purely of a spiritual and angelic nature. When they were examined concerning their fortune and occupation, they showed their hands, hardened with daily labor, and declared that they derived their whole subsistence from the cultivation of a farm near the village of Cocaba, of the extent of about twenty-four English acres, and of the value of nine thousand drachms, or three ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon
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