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Examples
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Assembling around him, by voice and bugle, the desperate partners of his desperate fortune,
Quentin Durward 2008
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“And may I beg to know of you,” said Lord Menteith, apparently interested in the adventures of this soldier of fortune,
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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Now as soon as ever I brought him in, we set him up in the chimney-corner, comfortable and handsome; and it was no little delight to me to get him off my back; for, like his own fortune,
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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That blind priest, like the eldest son of fortune,
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As soon, however, as I was mistress of this unexpected fortune,
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That loved your father: the residue of your fortune,
As You Like It 2004
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But as Miss Effingham was of age, and was mistress of her own fortune,
Phineas Finn 2004
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To whom all sores lay siege, can bear great fortune,
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Thy gracious fortunes and thine Angell goode, Cut through the maine, compell thy keele to scoure, No man his ill too timelie hath with-stoode And when _Best-chaunce_ shal haue repaird thy fortune,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Now, at times, as we recover the remnants of a squandered fortune,
The Sweet Cheat Gone 2003
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