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  • When the ship sunk, the said auditor, who would never leave or abandon it, took to the water with the rest of the men, and escaped by swimming, with some of the enemy's colors about him, to an uninhabited islet, called Fortun, two leguas from the place where the fight had taken place.

    History of the Philippine Islands Antonio de Morga 1597

  • It will take at least two transfer windows until he can legitimately put his own stamp on the playing staff but, if new recruits such as Fortuné continue to toil, why would the Celtic board back their manager with meaningful transfer funds?

    Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • 'ave, playing fast and loose wi' Fortun ', I calls it -- ah, fair flying in the face o' Providence!

    The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • "Fortun '," repeated the father, "fortun '-- it's fetched me one in the ribs -- low, Barnabas, low!

    The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • The operation will utilize 392 walkie-talkie radios (operating on eight or nine different frequencies), 114 pager transmitters and 30 pagers for supervisors, says operations manager Ben Fortun.

    USATODAY.com - Behind the scenes at PNC Park 2006

  • Fortun assigns locations for his 90 or so ushers and 35-40 ticket-takers (with a crowd of about 25,000) based on a "kill sheet" he receives from the ticket office — a report on the number and location of all tickets sold for the game.

    USATODAY.com - Behind the scenes at PNC Park 2006

  • I am like the Romin Genral, St. Cenatus, equal to any emudgency of Fortun.

    Burlesques 2006

  • I am like the Romin Genral, St. Cenatus, equal to any emudgency of Fortun.

    The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006

  • And I remembered, and grieved, for those others I missed, those who had died for my goals: Eamonn of the Dalriada, Remy and Fortun, my dear chevaliers, and those brave, doomed women of the zenana.

    Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

  • I thought of his comrades, of Remy and Fortun, and how they had died.

    Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

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