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  • They have made each other, with apologies to Shakespeare, into fortune's fools.

    Microsoft's Antitrust Turnabout 2011

  • Young, handsome, with an assured position as the right-hand man of Eben Hale, the great street-railway magnate, there could be no reason for him to complain of fortune's favors.

    The Minions of Midas 2010

  • Then the dream of fortune's wheel turning and the appearance of Sir Craddock, disguised as a pilgrim, with the bad news of treachery back home.

    Arthurian Glories Renewed Tom Shippey 2011

  • In his prime, Armstrong seemed impervious to banal accidents and fortune's whims.

    Tour de France 2010: Lance Armstrong rejoins the ranks of the mortals Richard Williams in Pauillac 2010

  • A dawn full of lowered expectations, bleak determination to soldier on, and the sure and certain knowledge that, if nothing else, fortune's wheel continues to turn.

    How to learn to live with Tories 2010

  • As lentils are considered a symbol of wealth for the new year in Italy, so, I propose, must chickpeas somehow invite fortune's smile; they are round like lentils, goldish when cooked over four or five hours, humble treasures.

    Fortune's Chickpeas 2010

  • As lentils are considered a symbol of wealth for the new year in Italy, so, I propose, must chickpeas somehow invite fortune's smile; they are round like lentils, goldish when cooked over four or five hours, humble treasures.

    Fortune's Chickpeas 2010

  • Shakespeare has Romeo ruing life's cruel whim by describing himself as "fortune's fool," but Mr. Bronfman comes off in the book refreshingly free of self-pity.

    Trying to Find The Right Beat 2010

  • And now that is all vanished; fortune's breeze hath veered and given to you for brides the maidens of death in their stead, and tears to me to bathe them in; woe is me for my foolish thoughts and your grandsire here is celebrating your marriage-feast, accepting Hades as the father of your brides, a grim relationship to make.

    Heracles 2008

  • But, if thou art so anxious to make thyself supreme in the land, let us at least go into exile; abstain from all violence, else thou wilt suffer by it whenso the deity causes fortune's breeze to veer round.

    Heracles 2008

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