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Examples
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He could not make a house to live in, nor could he coin a fortune.
Phineas Redux 2004
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Though it deserved all the praise it got, The Yawning Heights was nevertheless of a size bound to tell against its long-term fortune.
Laughter in the Dark James, Clive 1981
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John considered deeply for a minute and then gave it as his idea that five hundred pounds was usually called a fortune.
An Australian Lassie Lilian Turner
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He could not make a house to live in, nor could he coin a fortune.
Phineas Redux 1873
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Your millionaire, for example, -- and millionairism is getting so common as to be almost vulgar, -- your millionaire never tires of telling you how he worked the multiplication table until cents became dimes, and dimes well sown blossomed presently into dollars, till hundreds swelled to hundreds of thousands, and the man who had been a blithe youth but twenty years before became the possessor of an uneasy tumor he calls a fortune.
The Faith Doctor A Story of New York Edward Eggleston 1869
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He could not make a house to live in, nor could he coin a fortune.
Phineas Redux Anthony Trollope 1848
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French persons had apprised them that there were many foolish things; adding, that they honoured my affectionate intention towards the Church, and my capacity; and had so high an opinion of my candour and conscientiousness that they should leave it to me to make such alterations as were proper in the book, when I reprinted it; among other things, the word fortune.
The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 01 Michel de Montaigne 1562
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French persons had apprised them that there were many foolish things; adding, that they honoured my affectionate intention towards the Church, and my capacity; and had so high an opinion of my candour and conscientiousness that they should leave it to me to make such alterations as were proper in the book, when I reprinted it; among other things, the word fortune.
The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562
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I'd take it out on the road myself and coin a fortune.
CHAPTER XXVI 2010
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Baffert hopes a new rider brings a change in fortune.
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