| 单词 | fortune |
| 例句 | Most often poor men who came to the New World to make their fortunes, the overseers had not the slightest sympathy for their enslaved workers. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Even when all options seem to be gone, fortunes could change at any time. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z So much for it watching over me and bringing a future fortune. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Then, realizing its good fortune, it rose up, up, up, following the path of the stretch limo. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z By one account, the amount of oil money had surpassed the total value of all the Old West gold rushes combined, and this fortune had drawn every breed of miscreant from across the country. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z With some of their fortunes eroding, they find they are sitting on an extremely valuable asset, a realization that adds a touch of ambivalence to their protests against changes that are all too obvious. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Later, the stars wander out of their nursery to seek their fortunes in the Milky Way, stellar adolescents still surrounded by tuffs of glowing nebulosity, residues still gravitationally attached of their amniotic gas. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Once again, he thought, the two children of the depression had fought the misery of past holidays by spending a modest fortune on their own children. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a Chimera, a Griffon, a Sphinx, a Ganesha, a Peruvian god, a Ch’i-lin, an omen of good fortune, a wish for the world. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew the boys who tended the llama herd would be performing their own special ceremonies and customs in the days that followed to ensure the safety and fortune of our village’s animals. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z If he had put out fifty of them it would have been a fortune, but Lee was a humble man who didn’t care for mass production. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes, he probably paid a fortune for it and now he can’t show it to anyone because he’s afraid someone will make a cheap, knockoff version. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He was so sure of his own good breeding, he could laugh affectionately at the rich-quick vulgarities of the uncle who had adopted him and from whom he had inherited his fortune. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He sings about a young man who decides to leave his family’s farm and go to the city to make his fortune. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z His father was heir to the Vanderbilt railroad and oceanic shipping fortune; his mother’s father had invented the fantastically lucrative Bromo-Seltzer. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They burrowed under the sand and lay in wait, for years even, for prey to happen along, and they were only a threat if you had the poor fortune of walking over one. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Privately, however, the impending visit of this nobleman, upon which hung so many of the house’s fortunes, depressed 03-01’s spirits as much as it agitated his nerves. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I know, I saw it before and recognize the music and wish I could go sit on the plastic couch with Ernie and the baby, but now my fortune begins. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The apparent turning point in their fortunes occurred when they somehow made enemies of another group, the Chanka, who eventually attacked them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And yet it seemed at first that the gods had chosen her out for good fortune as they had her brother Pelops. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Gawaine said roughly: “The half of yon was done by sore ill fortune.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He would need to have fortune on his side. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z A self- made man, the illiterate, illegitimate, neglected son of an army captain, he ached with dreams of wealth and chivalric glory despite the fortune he had already acquired in the Spanish colonies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z "That would be a stroke of fortune, my lord," Jory said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z And seeing the garden in this forgotten condition reminded me of something I once read in a fortune cookie: When a husband stops paying attention to the garden, he’s thinking of pulling up roots. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “You think the fortune is in the memorial room?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He reckons it'll be worth a fortune twenty or thirty years from now, when the Falklands War has turned into history. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Angels are supposed to float about bringing love and goodwill and protection and good fortune, no? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z According to the article, it was donated by Joe DiMaggio and was “expected to fetch a fortune.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z He would have given half his fortune, if he had one, for a nice piece of raw, red meat, instead of the usual breast of chicken or scrambled eggs with asparagus. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z “I think the money is the best part of it. What will you do with such a fortune?” asked Amy, regarding the magic slip of paper with a reverential eye. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, when Jeremiah heard he was being handed a family fortune, he was very surprised. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Finally Proteus was won over by his courage and his good fortune, too; he became friends with him and gave him his daughter to marry. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z What was left of his fortune, the Laughing Man converted into diamonds, which he lowered casually, in emerald vaults, into the Black Sea. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z "Roma are my people. We have traveled all over the country, hunting and selling beadwork and leather or telling people's fortunes. But wherever we go, people act half fascinated, half scared of us." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z In mid-February, Judge Alschuler provided a bright moment for those who had the good fortune to be holding jobs in the packinghouses. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Even half a pair must be worth a fortune. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Why would someone like Ishtar spend her fortune on this? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z ‘Take all these things,’ she said, ‘and bear them to good fortune! Farewell now, Master Meriadoc! Yet maybe we shall meet again, you and I.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z When she was done, she cupped her hands before her face and asked God not to let all this good fortune slip away from her. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z She had accepted her parents’ money but not their control of her identity, and had taken advantage of her good fortune to reinvent herself, to find a different way of living. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z And it had seemed like bad fortune to me at the time, since Taryn and I worried what the new baby would mean for us. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And then Lao Lao went to her room and began to read her fortune sticks. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z The owner, an older woman, gives me more fortune cookies and an extra pair of chopsticks. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “The goldfish man said that it will bring fortune to our house.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Booth sits on the front step, half reading his mail and laughing aloud at his sudden good fortune. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z We bought ten fortune cookies for a dollar. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z They knew their fortune depended upon his pleasure. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Three fortunes,” she says, “plus a special message from the chef.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Biological-control studies, on the other hand, are never so endowed — for the simple reason that they do not promise anyone the fortunes that are to be made in the chemical industry. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I would tell fellow graduate students about my outrageous good fortune. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Blanca’s dowry, her monthly income, and the prospect of inheriting a considerable fortune eventually brought him around. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He came home with a small fortune: fifty pounds in prize money. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “You hadn’t come into your good fortune at that time?” said Herbert Pocket. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z He had already tested his fortune in half the world and it did not matter to him where he stayed. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Dimple whistled and reached over to pull a fortune out. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z It didn’t look like we were going to make our fortunes in grapefruit sales that year either. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Soon the Laughing Man had amassed the largest personal fortune in the world. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z How could she think of her good fortune when her husband and two of her sons were being sent to almost certain death? The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z His fortune was to live in the other America, the legendary America that was every wish come true. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Dear Mrs. Carroll, My name is Richard Perry, and I had the good fortune to serve under your husband. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she kisses us each on the cheek and hurries out, overcome with either the emotional parting or the possible improvement of her fortunes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Later, he inherited a fortune of $3 million, and he used part of the money to build Riverbank. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “What do we need to bring fortune here?” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z But soon thereafter his fortunes took a sharp turn for the better. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I just hope my visit falls on the good fortunes side of things. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “Good fortune and wisdom and courage—although you have already shown that you have all three of these blessings, and in abundance.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z "Oh!" he said in English, "you tell fortunes?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z One day, I would look at it and think, Daaaamn, fortune cookie! Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “Because you are the one who filled her with them. Making her believe she could change our miserable fortune with an impossible story! Ridiculous!” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z ‘It seems to be a record of the fortunes of Balin’s folk,’ he said. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z But after sixteen rounds, we would again feast, this time to celebrate our good fortune. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was the birthplace of the family fortune. It was there that my great-grandfather manufactured the Littmus Lozenge, a candy that was famous the world over.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z MamS frowns that this isn’t allowed by the pope, but I have to think fortunes really do tell the truth. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Whole inheritances were played at gambling tables, along with the easy fortunes of the postwar years. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Stuffing their mittens and wool caps into their pockets, they settled in conscious of their extraordinary good fortune in having escaped temporarily from the snowstorm. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Nothing was said of crutches or of misshapen legs, or of ill fortune or of good. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z What was once a fortune may become a pittance, a lost game for the heirs. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Not long after that, Nazi entrepreneurs arrived on the scene in the hope of making their fortune off the misery of Jewish factory owners who were no longer permitted to own a business. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Iranians respected properly gained wealth, but they objected to the shah's fortune because much of it was stolen from the people. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Or was it just more of the same parceling out of fortunes that had brought us this far, to this place where our path would finally divide into two? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He was going to ask for his money back until he discovered that people driving through town on their way back up to the city would pay a fortune for a dozen Easter-colored eggs. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I don’t know if he told fortunes or anything. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z And it was true that life at Ashton Place was very grand and that most people would consider this a stroke of good fortune, for the children and for Penelope as well. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Just as my fortune seemed to be turning, I was forced to leave my only paying job because of well- intentioned meddling by my friends. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “One day," she added, “the owner of that fortune will appear and only he can dig it up." One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z To be here now, alive in the twenty-first century and smart enough to know it, you also had to be the beneficiary of an extraordinary string of biological good fortune. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Dad’s fortune says: Only a goofus locks his keys in his car twice in one week. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Richard Mellon Scaife, the publisher and heir to a banking fortune, bought an extra house, too; he needed it for the staff. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Hamilton himself was a kind of Horatio Alger hero who aspired to fame more than fortune, but he understood the world of banking, investing, and speculating from within. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Bringing fortune to our house! Making Fruitless Mountain bloom! You’re always wishing to do impossible things! Stop believing stories and stop wasting your time.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z They resemble the arrivistes of the Gilded Age, which began in the 1880s when industrial capitalists amassed staggering fortunes, except that there are so many of them and they seem to be relatively anonymous. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z They were fully aware that they could only inherit their uncle’s fortune if “closer” relatives—such as a wife or child—are proven not to be rightful heirs. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I should ask him how to bring fortune to our house!” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “People forget those things only last three, maybe four years. It’s not like they cost a fortune.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z As they returned to the ground, the dragon asked, “What about you? Did the Old Man tell you how to change your fortune?” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “Look at them all. There’s a fortune in this. I wish one of us was big enough to pass the hat.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The press conference ran longer than expected—nearly every news outfit had questions for the McCulloughs, and the McCulloughs, dazzled by their good fortune, stayed to answer them all. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In the moment, I’d felt nothing but relieved by my own good fortune. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He seems to find it difficult to keep himself from pinching her or pinching himself for having had the good fortune to find and marry her. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Hale had access to Mollie’s fortune through Ernest, but his nephew did not yet directly control it, and would do so only if Mollie died and bequeathed it to him. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “These are worth more than a fortune,” she said. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I climbed up, slipping and floundering, lost the echoed light and found it again, a good little new-split stone with a piece of mica in it—not a fortune but a good thing to have. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “From now on, trust to your feet and not to your good fortune.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “You are to study with the great Paqo? Such an honor! How did this happen? What spirits smile upon us to bring such good fortune?” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z He scratched at the flags with his cane, said, “But no matter. I am off to assure our fortune.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z She starts chanting, "May I tell your fortune? Step up, and me and my wise parrot will tell you what the future holds!" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z By great good fortune they were all asleep when Perseus found them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The white wolf hunted well away from the line of march, but he was not having much better fortune than the foragers Smallwood sent out after game. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Besides fortunes there were little balls of sawdust to amuse the children and a special powder that was supposed to cure impotence, which Marcos sold under his breath to passersby afflicted with that malady. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “He says the Coast Guard will probably shut down the Coral Queen right away. He says they won’t throw Dusty in jail, but they could make him pay out a fortune in fines.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z And he has been considering the example of his future father-in-law, Daniel Chalmers, a Baptist missionary to the Philippines who ended up building power plants there and making a small fortune. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The merchants of Boston had for some decades made some portion of their fortunes through smuggling, the Young Men of the Gitney family being, in this respect, no exception. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He asked this as if, having had the good fortune to catch such a rare bird as myself, he was anxious to extract my opinion while I was still captive in his office. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “I’ll be the first to congratulate our heroes for bringing back the legion’s eagle and so much Imperial gold! Truly we have been blessed with good fortune. But why do more? Why tempt fate?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He looks like he's just been told that he's inherited a fortune. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z What standing could such dedicated pacifists enjoy among veterans of the Revolution, who, as Jackson put it, “at the risk of their lives and fortunes, secured to the community their liberty and property?” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “My son—your grandfather—made his fortune in the mines.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And one disdainful suitor added this: “May his fortune grow an inch for every inch he bends it!” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was child’s play, winning this fortune. Now, if all of you will excuse me, my bride and I need to go home for our wedding night.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Then he began to speak of his many adventures, his riotous life, the marvels he had seen, the scrapes he had escaped, his fortunes good and bad. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z ‘Good fortune go with you for tidings and for guidance!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Now we could say we had real Chinese fortune cookies in Chinatown. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Things we have to pay to have hauled away could bring fortunes. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She could make a fortune doing horror movies if she wanted. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z With their reign Apollo’s oracle at Delphi began to play a leading part in the family’s fortunes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But she wasn’t one to be so dazed by good fortune that she missed out on such a chance. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, those notions of good fortune and chance have blended so much that dictionaries now accept a hybrid definition—something fortuitous is a happy accident. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was her good fortune to find a permanent job in the home of a well-to-do family whose members were affectionate, appreciative, and generous. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Venal local officials sought to devour the Osage’s fortunes. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z When Violet comes of age, the fortune will be yours, but the bank will take charge of it until you are old enough.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z In addition, those photographs could earn those com-belt clods a fortune in some photographic contest. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Right now there was something more important—fifty dollars— a fabulous sum—a fortune—far more money than I had ever seen. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It cost a fortune, I know, because I saw the booking receipt for the flight and the room in his email inbox. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Blacks also exercised their recently gained voting rights to boost their fortunes. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “It has come to me that thou hast found a great fortune, a great pearl.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z My stepfamily knew and would take advantage to improve their rank and fortune. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z No wonder he had gone away to seek his fortune. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “Mother,” Samuel cried, “here’s our chance to scratch our name in the First National Bank! Don’t throw the weight of your tongue in the path of fortune. Please, Mother!” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z If fortune smiled, many of their warships might have sunk or run aground. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He didn’t even patent the roller drum, which is still used today and could have made him a fortune. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “That’s why Littmus made a fortune. He manufactured a piece of candy that tasted sweet and sad at the same time.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z When the server set down our fortune cookies at the end of the meal, mine was blank. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I must be carrying a modest fortune in illegal papers. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I felt that the day was an omen of good fortune. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought they would be grandiful surprises for you—like fortune cookies, only I didn’t have any cookies to put them in. Did you like them anyway?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z We bought ten fortune cookies for a dollar. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the man in Eden before the fall, he was enjoying his innocence and fortune. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z PIH had spent several million dollars of the philanthropist’s fortune to buy the drugs for Peru. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Nothing will convince him that his fortunes might not suddenly reverse, reducing him to a diet of fingernail clippings or soups made from fallen leaves and seasoned with flashlight batteries. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Like me, she did not want to attract anyone's attention to our good fortune. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Its bright red flowers made the perfect crayons for children, but its stems could also tell your fortune. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Mr. Wickham’s chief object was unquestionably my sister’s fortune, which is thirty thousand pounds; but I cannot help supposing that the hope of revenging himself on me was a strong inducement. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z We were sisters—part of a family now, with the good fortune to have found just the right mama. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The Aleuts also watched our village, otherwise they would not have known about the good fortune which befell us soon after they came. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I was beyond fury at this little creature, who had spoiled my chances at amassing a fortune of pink clay. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z She crumpled up the fortune she’d been reading and slipped it into her pocket. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z To Mrs. Strowers, this was a fortune, and all she had to do was sign a few documents. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “She could find a way to change your fortune.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z This is Hideo stripped of his fortune and fame and genius. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes,” I murmured, as I undrew the bolt and passed out. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z As an adult, she said that from her father she learned to rely on no one but herself, and from her mother she learned how to tell fortunes as a tent-show spiritualist. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z He makes them feel good momentarily, like some of his obvious good fortune will rub off on them. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “Oh! single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z For handing him the secret to his fame and fortune? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z At the weapon she’d just had the good fortune to stumble across. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “So tell me,” said Goddard, “does fortune smile on my apprentice, as it has on yours?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “Ah, good fortune,” answered the man carelessly, his eye on a well-dressed customer who had just come in. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z But it was Shakespeare who said, “When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, as he winds his way into Nuevo Laredo, he has one more piece of good fortune. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Mr. Collins’s present circumstances made it a most eligible match for their daughter, to whom they could give little fortune; and his prospects of future wealth were exceedingly fair. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Well, I’ll tell you: a half of the country has growed rich, favored by Providence, but still jealous and fearful that the other half is apt to find good fortune too. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, it could assert its power over the fortunes of later generations and had to be appeased or controlled. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps you think I had forgotten Mr. Rochester, reader, amidst these changes of place and fortune. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He was able to rent an ancient mansion that had belonged to one of the great saltpeter fortunes before they invented the synthetic substitute that had shot the whole industry to hell. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “If we’re going to make a fortune on the silver screen, we got to figure what’s going to sell. What we need is young girls. You got a girlfriend?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z From then on, Marie donned men’s clothes, took the name of Gottlieb, and made a fortune traveling around Europe, exhibiting himself to medical men. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I do, and find it’s the exact same fortune as hers. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z He wished bitterly that his fortune had left him in the quiet and beloved Shire. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He shrugged, shoulders thick with sudden irritability, as though he could not believe she did not recognize her good fortune. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “I might have let him sell you after all. Your uncle Pyce would have paid a fortune.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z After Anna had divorced him, she had denied him any inheritance, leaving virtually all of her fortune to Lizzie. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Instead of dying Pa made a vast fortune. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “You sold her a goldfish, and then,” Ma sputtered, “and then she ran away to change our fortune.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z My father, who was a wealthy nobleman by the standards of his time, lost both his fortune and his title. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My body was spent from taking in so much food, and there was the nervous tension arising from my sudden change of fortunes. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I turn it over, and it reads: To my sweet Bridget, who is my own wheel of fortune. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z The sugar story in the United States centered on Louisiana—though even supposedly free states like New York made fortunes in transporting and selling sugar grown by slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z And, late at night, after everyone had left and the place was cleaned up, they would sit for tea amid the empty tables, the three of them, tired but thankful for their good fortune. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The waiter and I are both paying close attention as Rhiannon cracks open her second fortune cookie. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z The girl tried to smile at her friend's good fortune, but she could not hide her dismay. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z He wouldn’t leave his test prep books behind; even used, they cost a fortune. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Dumber than a pigeon fresh off the boat and looking to make a fortune on East Stave. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Excellent. Good boy. Nothing breeds fortune like a hat and jabot.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z If their search in the park led them to Parkers fortune, and if the bracelet really was Siobhan’s, then everyone would have to take back every mean thing they’d said about her grandmother. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Getting the chance to figure out how to send humans into space was fortune beyond measure. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Though I find it hard to trust that my good fortune will continue, I am under no illusions about what I’ve left behind. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Bones that lie helter-skelter on the grass, from which to tell our fortunes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “How does a goldfish bring fortune into your home?” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Dad left the air force after he got married because he wanted to make a fortune for his family, and you couldn’t do that in the military. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z All I had was three singles and five quarters and a nickel left--boy, I spent a fortune since I left Pencey. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z As a child, he had been something of a loner, reading adventure stories during his school days and dreaming of fame and fortune. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “As you say. Good fortune to you, old man.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I would have bet the family fortune if I’d found a sucker big enough to take me on. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “But there’s no way he can get hold of our fortune just by putting us in a play,” Violet said. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Not accidentally, these novels coincided with America’s Gilded Age, the era of overnight fortunes and conspicuous spending that followed in the wake of the Civil War. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She opened the letter, and he pointed to the same line she had struggled with earlier: Siobhan is the key; the one who will lead you to my fortune. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z ‘For however the fortune of war shall go, may it not so end that much that was fair and wonderful shall pass for ever out of Middle-earth?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z If good fortune blessed us there might be a little meat at Christmastide. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z They are worth a fortune in trading because the Indians prize them so much. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z He was always talking about fate and odds and the wheel of fortune. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He used his fortune to finance liberal causes, including abolition, temperance, and women’s rights. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Oh, of course. There are all of my notes and jottings. We must never let them fall into the hands of my mother. She may make a fortune from them. It would be too ironic.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s only a facet of it. I don’t normally read the fortunes of men, but...” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Then we talked about our San Francisco excursion, and eating all those dumplings and fortune cookies. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z He saw a covering of brown kudzu over three winter-dead trees, twisting them into strange, almost human shapes: they could have been witches, three bent old crones ready to reveal his fortune. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like streams in the Negev! What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Nately bounded out of bed after a few minutes to announce his good fortune to his friends at the top of his voice. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The family earned its fortune manufacturing rebar—the metal rods used to strengthen concrete—which it sold across Jordan. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I don't remember exactly what I had left, but it was no fortune or anything. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Although his mother had amassed quite a fortune—an especially impressive feat for a woman with no Talent—it hadn’t been enough to last him fifty-three years. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z "Help me, my lady. In the green lands, they believe a woman with child means good fortune for any man who beds her." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I declare,” he said, “Little-bit’s been holding out on me. She got a fortune tied up in a sock, and she ain’t never told me nothing about it.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z He threw his arms around Coll and wished him good fortune. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z “What if Grandma was right? What if there really was a hidden fortune?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Olaf is after the fortune we will inherit. Killing us would do him no good.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z They all said that it was remarkable good fortune to have such a wise chief in their midst. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z There were also indications that both Halliday and Morrow had invested most of their own personal fortunes in the company’s new endeavor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Barringer believed that the crater had been formed by a ten-million-ton meteor, heavily freighted with iron and nickel, and it was his confident expectation that he would make a fortune digging it out. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z At least he isn’t shackled under the stadium floor, Elisabet keeps saying, and I suppose even my broken heart can accept that as good fortune. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “They are backed by ancient fortunes, held in trust. Bribes get paid. Locations are changed when necessary.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “Nothing to you? When a lady, young and full of life and health, charming with beauty and endowed with the gifts of rank and fortune, sits and smiles in the eyes of a gentleman you—” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “We can’t afford to rent an apartment right now. The rebuild is going to cost a fortune, and insurance only covers so much.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z They had discovered a fiendish plot involving marrying Violet and stealing the Baudelaire fortune. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z He’d left home after high school with nothing but his wits and his imagination, and he’d used them to attain worldwide fame and amass a vast fortune. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He spent almost all his time and a good part of his fortune on the political front. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And as for the reward, Drave’s personal fortune wasn’t high on his list of priorities. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z According to Desdemona, my grandfather collapsed right after overturning his coffee cup to read his fortune in the grounds. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He was proud, I think, to know that he’d turned things around, that he’d saved our fortunes, and that he had tugged my mom back over to his side. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z If fortune smiled on me, I would be moving up the ranks in the Fishery soon, and that meant my money troubles would soon be over. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Sunday afternoon, December 27 Today is the feast day of San Juan Evangelista, a good day for fortunes. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It has been my good fortune, after all, to have consorted not just with Mr Churchill, but with many other great leaders and men of influence - from America and from Europe. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z He used his mind, his heart, his incredible street smarts, and his fortune to save our lives. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Everyone, except the foreigners, was willing to risk half his personal fortune in the endeavor, but only old Trueba was also willing to give his life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They had lost a small fortune in olive oil futures. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z His expression was solemn, like he was holding something that could shape fortunes and mold destinies. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “Come, my young friend! Tell me how you came by such a fortune—a tale worth hearing, no doubt!” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z If you found one, it was hard to get access to it; if you managed to get access, renting time on it cost a fortune. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z After that, it only took a little prodding to learn the old man’s name—Erastis—and a little more to get him to exchange a few copper zens to have his fortune told. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Mr. Bender said the homes in this neighborhood cost a fortune. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “I’d write it all down. I could make a fortune on a book like that. I can’t move my legs either.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z ‘It’s a hard fortune evidently, when a man can’t be fighting a little bit unless he comes to the end of his days.’ The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps this was a sign of good fortune for their journey, Amari thought. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m going to Never-Ending Mountain to see the Old Man of the Moon and ask him how to change my family’s fortune. You can come too and ask him how to fly.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Matt stared at the small, fierce woman as he tried to understand the sudden shift in his fortunes. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And again he said to himself, “Well, and he may even be killed, if my good fortune holds, for sometimes in wars there are those who die.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He hated Fords with a deadly hatred, but they were daily building his fortune. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It was not long before the sisters made a fortune speculating in the gold market. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “It’s worth a fortune, you realize. It’s not synthetic; it’s from before the war, made from genuine mash.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z But they managed to escape by climbing down a rope with the baby Lyra in her father’s arms, and they regained the family fortune, only to be attacked and murdered by outlaws. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They were of a respectable family in the north of England; a circumstance more deeply impressed on their memories than that their brother’s fortune and their own had been acquired by trade. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z “My haste is your good fortune, madam. These girls were the servants of my late aunt, whose passing I mourn deeply. I must quickly conclude the matters of her estate. The recent unrest, you know.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z A man had left a Czech village to seek his fortune. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z The hard soles of his shoes rapped loudly on the metaled road like a giant clock, and he made himself think about time, about his great hoard, the luxury of an unspent fortune. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “You’ll never make a fortune working for the boss man,” he said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z And I will choose you companions to go with you, as far as they will or fortune allows. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z One and a half blocks from the market was the handsomely refurbished mansion of Robert Morris, a wealthy manufacturer who had used his fortune to help finance the Revolutionary War. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Lon hadn’t known what the Book was, but he could feel his path forking before him: Down one path was the life of a street performer, spinning fortunes for spare change. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The groom was a Mr. Gordon Boniface—“heir to the Gould-Stetson fortune”—and the house they were leaving was the house we were in. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z “Since when are you a fortune teller to know it’s a son?” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Leo’s hand trembled as he held the fortune cookie. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Only to certain people, people who deserve it. And it will be very, very expensive. But who wouldn’t give a fortune to live forever?” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z And when you think that it was my good fortune to have had their ear on many great issues of the day, yes, when I think back, I do feel a certain gratitude. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z ‘O Fair Folk! This is good fortune beyond my hope,’ said Pippin. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z In less than an hour, you’d sold all but one necklace and we had earned a small fortune. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He had long since come to the conclusion that her brand of fortune- telling was really no more than lucky guesswork and a spooky manner. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Once again on the battlefield he was eager for the fight, and better fortune for a time lay before him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “And you also said that the fortune-teller told you ‘small eyes, large fortune.’ Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t have a stitch of clothing on underneath, nor did he have the good fortune to at least be trailing the field. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z If a famous person did that, it would probably be really popular and sell for a fortune. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I accepted another one-year appointment at Berkeley in an attempt to postpone the good fortune awaiting me and the consequent issue it would finally force. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps some electrical finder could have been developed so delicate that it could have located the source of all this spreading joy and fortune. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In March fortune brought him the perfect acquisition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It didn’t get them any closer to finding his fortune. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z In fact, literature is full of splendid examples: “There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. ” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Though my heart dilated with my good fortune, still was I surrounded by perplexities. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Like a young bride who couldn’t believe her good fortune. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But no matter what happened to Rab, good or bad fortune, good or bad reputation, he would never change. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He and a partner then took over a writing-paper business that gave every indication of making a fortune. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z In the ebb of their fortunes, this sum was their total capital; yet they laid it unhesitatingly against Matthewson’s six hundred. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z “Imprudent, if you please—but not mad. Excepting inequality of fortune, and perhaps a little disparity of age, I can see nothing unsuitable.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z “It is an ill thing for young Robin to sleep out in the damp, but if such be our fortune, then we must make the best of it.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z “Such long faces! Cheer up, friends. Many a scoundrel has made their fortune out west. Of course, that is all assuming you survive.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z With the Renaissance revival of Stoicism the word ‘philosophical’ acquired a new meaning: philosophers, it was held, were able to moderate their passions and to be unmoved by the blows of fortune. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Instead of returning to Rome with the sudden fortune, which had been his dream maturing in misery, José Arcadio converted the house into a decadent paradise. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Leo had taken the fortune cookie out of his tool belt and turned it in his fingers, wondering what price he would have to pay if he broke it open. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z What if I too were someday to attain the same fame and fortune as Arthur Ashe? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z After that we found a place where all they did was make fortune cookies. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Queen,” said Degalis, “is desperate. She has spent a fortune looking for you.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Toward the end of the meal, my father, turning to me as though peace had brought with it some great change to our meager fortunes, said, “Well, Louise, what will you do now?” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew that Burt had gained access to Bigheart’s fortune by becoming the guardian of his daughter. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Having inherited a fortune in 1875, he invested unwisely in silver and lost everything. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Her fortune cookie was still in Leo’s tool belt, waiting to be opened. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Lecture tours, book deals. Why, the movie rights alone will be worth a fortune.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The delighted widow welcomed her to share in her incredible fortune. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z She saw with quiet impotence how the deluge was pitilessly exterminating a fortune that at one time was considered the largest and most solid in Macondo, and of which nothing remained but pestilence. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Her daughter, Miss de Bourgh, will have a very large fortune, and it is believed that she and her cousin will unite the two estates.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Who had the good fortune to open that one, and was there one bad thing down there in the bottom of the good box? Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z All I can remember is how awfully lucky I felt, and consequently how worried I was that all this undeserved good fortune would someday slip away. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z On the tenth day from the birth he invited everybody to feast and rejoice with us in our good fortune. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I hope she is right.—In one respect, my good fortune is undoubted, that of being able to subscribe myself, Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z I entered—not now obliged to part with my whole fortune as the price of its accommodation. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z After losing his entire fortune to bad investments in the early 1880s, he wrote his memoirs with the help of editor Mark Twain. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “It will take more than a goldfish to bring fortune to our house.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Leo thrust his hand in his pocket and brought out the fortune cookie. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It had taken fifty-three years, but finally Mason Darlington Burgess, the good-for-nothing heir to the Darlington fortune, had discovered the secret ingredient to his own mother’s peanut butter recipe. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z People took Sunday outings to see the bird; souvenir vendors and strolling photographers made a fortune. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Clara did her part as well, praising the elegance of his handwriting when Ana showed her his letters, and Lady Isobel could find no fault with his country house — or his considerable fortune. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Dinwiddie had seen many a young man lose his lands and his fortune gambling at cards, but the governor knew that George was different. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Never-Ending Mountain? The Old Man of the Moon? Changing your fortune?” the neighbors said. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “I am going out into the world to seek my fortune and to look for a lost bird. Which direction do you think I should start out in?” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z “We could abort this mission right now and still make a fortune in patents.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “Strange and mysterious and to make up rhymes, sing songs, tell fortunes. He said I looked startled by life, Chaya. Do you think so?” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The few who found it invigorating tended to be men who had waded in its “river of death,” Sinclair’s phrase, and panned from it great fortunes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z ‘May he bear you well and to better fortune than Gárulf, his late master!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She put down a bottle of fire-engine red and picked up peacock blue, a new shade that was very popular but carried no good fortune. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “Since your change of fortune and prospects, you have changed your companions,” said Estella. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “Why would we want to change our fortune?” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “Why would we want to change our fortune?” they had said. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “Murenga disinherited his son. Proud announced he was going to earn his own fortune. He came here.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m going to America. To seek my fortune.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Frankly, I was too staggered by my good fortune to do much of anything. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I turn in a circle, staring around at the fortune of librex cast in a magical haze. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z ‘Can’t? Your mother signed the paper—and you’re a wicked girl to stand in the way of your sister’s good fortune.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And it promised an incredible fortune to the city of Lambert, South Carolina—if its puzzle could be solved. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z An-mei and I still laugh over those bad fortunes and how they later became quite useful in helping me catch a husband. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “No,” he acquiesced: “I heard it had happened very lately. I was rather on the lookout for good fortune then.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “May it bring you great fortune,” he said. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z But little did we know, as we ate and sang and the older men told stories about the fire, that our good fortune would soon bring trouble to Ghalas-at. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z If it was real, it was a fortune, worth more than anything they’d found so far. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “You’d let someone read that in their fortune cookie, and it would come true?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I didn’t lose a fortune when the Depression came. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When people experience a sudden, happy change of fortune, it often comes as a great shock to the system. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z But men have made the same mistake more than once—left the whole business out of account, or been content to trust to luck and the fortune of war. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He gifted a fortune to Mercy Raymond, on Block Island, just down the seaboard from us, filling her apron with gold and jewels simply because she’d been kind. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z My mother—your grandmother—once told me my fortune, how my character could lead to good and bad circumstances. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “I may be a terrible man,” Count Olaf said, “but I have been able to concoct a foolproof way of getting your fortune, which is more than you’ve been able to do.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z I only hope the fortunes and future of Rose Hill are as bright as my own. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “Caroline,” I said, so anxious to change the subject I was even willing to speak of my sister’s good fortune, “Caroline is at a music school in New York City.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "He is my wife's twin, a Sworn Brother of the Kings- guard, his life and fortune and honor all bound to mine." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Jay struts up and down before he pecks at a card, while a woman waits to hear Rani tell her fortune. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Did you ever think you would be so powerful you could determine someone else’s fortune?” she asked. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a massive sculpture of a fortune cookie outside, made from what looked like old clothes. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z As streams of people walked past, they reached out and grabbed a “fortune” from the opening. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The look of wonder on his face, his delight as he realizes his good fortune, makes me smile. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “Good luck hitting a skinny little schooner cutting through the waves bound for fortune and glory.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Each of his brothers and sisters had looks or gifts or fortune. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z When he returns to our table, he has a half dozen more fortune cookies for her. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z “Had to pay a fortune for this oak,” the old man grumbled. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Just as her sister Inge and brother Hans did, she believed that Hitler would help Germany achieve greatness, fortune, and prosperity. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It was bad luck, bad fortune, freakish to the point of being too scary to contemplate. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z For the first few minutes the animals could hardly believe in their good fortune. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Maybe I thought it was unusual, but anyone can have good fortune. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He will escape Cuba with a fortune in his suitcase, and die of natural causes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He said that he was going to take the stuff home and make a fortune growing hair. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I missed you this Felling past at the Eolian, but though denied your company, I had the good fortune to meet someone quite interesting. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He bade me sit, which I did, and we again expressed our mutual pleasure at our reunion, following which he asked after my fortunes, inquiring how long I had been at Norfolk. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “No, Miss,” she said, laughing, “it is our bad fortune to be here making these and somebody else’s bad fortune to pay to get them.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It just means that he understands what incredible good fortune it was to be at Lakeside in 1968. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z A great delight it was to feel that certainty again, to know that I could steer my fortune and the world’s chance like a bobsled down the steep, dangerous hour. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z He could make a fortune here, if only he had the time. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and mis- fortune is just bad luck. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Whenever a black family moved or suffered a slight reverse in fortune, it usually let its policy lapse and later bought another policy from some other company. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Not too soon came their aid to the Rohirrim; for fortune had turned against Éomer, and his fury had betrayed him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The country wives would hold me in dishonor if he, with all his fortune, lay unshrouded.’ The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “But he paid her not the smallest attention till her grandfather’s death made her mistress of this fortune.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z “You are the inheritors of an enormous fortune.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Bill Gates, who started off squarely in the upper middle class, made a fortune without finishing college, drawing three aces. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Lawrence delivered his own judgment nonverbally by becoming more detached from the project as its fortunes waned. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z For a man who had built his fortune from the ground up and seen it demolished overnight, he had been so hopeful. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It was as if coming into the world on New Year’s Day were such a sign of good fortune that children born on that day would be named “January 1.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z ‘Maybe. But tell me now of your own fortunes,’ said Frodo, turning the matter aside once again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z For some time the three companions stood still and silent, troubled by this new stroke of ill fortune. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The marriage was arranged by a baishakunin who told the Shibayamas that the potential groom had made a fortune in the new country. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Across the doorway a garland of mango leaves, symbol of happiness and good fortune, dry now and rattling in the breeze. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone had forgotten about the existence of that fortune. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Sitti said she could read their fortunes in the tea leaves in the sugary bottoms of their cups. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Unless where they like women of fortune, which I think they very often do.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z “You’re clean,” the cop says, which is a strange piece of fortune. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The country wives would hold me in dishonor if he, with all his fortune, lay unshrouded.’ The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Burnham closed, “We are all well and satisfied with the amount and variety of work our good fortune has given us to do.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But that only gave other Europeans the opportunity to take the lead in seeking sugar fortunes. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z After that we found a place where all they did was make fortune cookies. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “You had no idea of your impending good fortune, in those times?” said Estella, with a slight wave of her hand, signifying in the fighting times. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “We wish good fortune for him, too. We believe his heart is strong, like his father’s. Your son is very good boy.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z What alone was wanting to the realisation of a vast fortune, he considered to be More Capital. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Being of simple mind, Dana probably had thought only of his unexpected good fortune as the laundry basket was loaded into the laundry truck, which was then driven out the gates of the detention center. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “So then El-ahrairah said to the fox, ‘Fox you may smell and fox you may be, but I can tell your fortune in the water.’” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The fortune cookie in his tool belt started to feel heavier. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Seeking his fortune, Mr. Carter bought the land from its absentee owners and began construction of a mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “A dragon’s pearl is worth the Emperor’s entire fortune.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t mind telling you it cost a fortune. I found it in a dear little shop in the Village.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When other German factory owners took their profits and fled Kraków, intent on saving their lives and fortunes, Schindler increased his efforts to save his Jews. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “That pearl was supposed to be worth the Emperor’s entire fortune. A single pearl. I suppose it could’ve belonged to a dragon.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z He also plucked slips of paper from a box with his beak, by way of selling fortunes to the curious. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “But the best fortune is the one that returned.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z The oysters she was shucking were actually fortune cookies. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z April was in full bloom, and they were young enough to accept the sunlight and color of a new spring as omens of good fortune. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘For Boromir was loyal to me and no wizard’s pupil. He would have remembered his father’s need, and would not have squandered what fortune gave. He would have brought me a mighty gift.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The rest of them were all going to the stupid town square, with the plan I’m sure being to whoop and holler about our good fortune and divide up all the dead loot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I think of my fortune from Yum Li’s: Why don’t you look up once in a while? Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z And Hale, White was convinced, had secretly forged an indirect channel to this fortune through his subservient nephew. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z My father’s anxious office-seeking consumed our family’s fortunes, the remains of my mother’s dowry. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z When Allies grew frustrated with poorly organized community meetings or problematic clients at their agencies, I counseled them to keep perspective, reminding them of their own relative good fortune. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Surprised by my good fortune, I put myself at the front of the line and become the first to get my blood pressure and pulse taken. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z With the breakup of communist Russia, Artemis Senior had decided to invest a huge chunk of the Fowl fortune in establishing new shipping lines to the vast continent. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z They could talk of nothing but officers; and Mr. Bingley’s large fortune, the mention of which gave animation to their mother, was worthless in their eyes when opposed to the regimentals of an ensign. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Then, rejoicing in their good fortune, believing the war ended and Athena’s favor restored to them, they went to their houses in peace as they had not for ten years. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Matt was dazed by the rapid change in his fortunes. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think—we think—there’s a fortune hidden somewhere in town.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I was so small because I was once cursed by a tinker who did not like the fortune my mother gave him. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “No. You will have a nice smile—that would be a fortune,” I tell her. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z There were many people who lost their fortunes when magic vanished. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Uncle Al had the good fortune to be in the vicinity and was able to score a sleeping car and two flats for a song from railroad officials desperate to free up their siding. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Together, they amassed one of the great American fortunes of their era. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Word of our good fortune came on a stormy afternoon, brought by Ulape, who was never idle. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z "Never mind that, Liebchen. This is a good turn of fortune. Music to the rescue, right?" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “People don’t have fortunes left them in that style nowadays, men have to work and women marry for money. It’s a dreadfully unjust world,” said Meg bitterly. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z If I didn’t have these two legs I’d be over in England making a fortune in the factories like the rest of the Irishmen, like your father. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z They rush to the post office to cash the money orders so they can shop and show the world their good fortune on Saturday night and Sunday morning. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z As a young man Norwood had traveled to Bermuda with a diving bell modeled on Halley’s device, intending to make a fortune scooping pearls from the seabed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Prophecies made him think of fortune cookies, which weren’t even Chinese—not really— but the bullies at school teased him about stupid stuff like that: Confucius say... all that garbage. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “The Baudelaire fortune,” he said sternly, “will not be used for such matters. In fact, it will not be used at all, until Violet is of age.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z He hoped to recover Cleopatra’s fortune, which he thought might be stashed on board. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z That night she stole out of the house and sped along the dark path to the ship, where they were rejoicing in their good fortune with no thought of evil. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever his fortune, whatever the cut of his garment, there would always be the hem—the tuck and fold that hid his raveling edges; a someone sweet, industrious and loyal to shore him up. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Max had gone west to seek his fortune, and upon her blouse collar, Mrs. Brenner bore proof of his success—a tiny nugget of raw gold fashioned into a stickpin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Betrayal is a friend I have known a long time, a two-faced goddess looking forward and back with a clear, earnest suspicion of good fortune. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel quite pleased with myself until Rani tells me she told everyone who asked her for their fortune that they'd do well if they were generous to poor boys. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z While I went about my usual tasks, she spent most of the day in the courtyard with Sass, so Sass could brag about Chandra’s good fortune to the neighbor women. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Most people seek their fortunes early in the evening. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Would they be able to remember tomorrow’s prices and make a fortune on the stock market? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve had the good fortune of shelter; this hut belongs to a pupil of Anatole’s, whose father lived here but is now deceased. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It also highlighted her key role in the I'm Alone case, which had saved the United States a small fortune. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They let us come in and watch the ladies slip fortunes inside flat yellow cookie dough, then fold the dough over. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It was all as Lazlo had seen it that day seven years ago when the good fortune of bad fish had brought him to a new life. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Once again I walked through Kraków in a daze, this time unable to believe my good fortune. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “I’m full of good fortune,” the dwarf told him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “We can’t give up our girls for a dozen fortunes. Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z She used small, plaited whips, she would draw blood, and she was making herself a small fortune off those old white men. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Like all the good things that occurred in his long life, that tremendous fortune had its origins in chance. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She was so happy, but still couldn’t believe her good fortune. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z To come to New York City in the 1890s with a background in dressmaking or sewing or Schnittwaren Handlung was a stroke of extraordinary good fortune. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The absurdity of this reversal of fortune may not have struck millions in the industrialised world after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 as all that implausible. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Suddenly our fortune was only half a fortune, but give it back we did. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z People of color, because of the history of racial subjugation and exclusion, often experience success and failure vicariously through the few who achieve positions of power, fame, and fortune. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “No, but you’d be in real hot water with Daddy because those things cost a fortune!” she laughed. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z All the broken cookies and fortunes had disappeared except for one crumpled slip of paper. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I once saw Katherine thrash a girl soundly who had the bad fortune to slander her name. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “I have come into such good fortune since I saw you last, Miss Havisham,” I murmured. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Over time, many of the investigators came to believe that Hattie Whitehorn, who had quickly spent some of her husband’s fortune after his death, was also complicit. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It said: Siobhan is the key; the one who will lead you to my fortune. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z White was now in his eighties and, as lie intended, not far from the end of his fortune. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Odysseus, the great tactician, answered: “My hand, friend; may the gods award you fortune. I hope no pressing need comes on you ever for this fine blade you give me in amends.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Unaware that the meteor and everything in it would have been vaporized on impact, he wasted a fortune, and the next twenty-six years, cutting tunnels that yielded nothing. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I knew that only by the best of fortune would I ever reach it. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z It had become usual to give Napoleon the credit for every successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z She couldn’t believe her good fortune, getting paid to do math, the thing that came most naturally to her in the world. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She puts a little plate on the table: our fortune cookies. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z We also still have the brownstone in Boston, which I am sure costs a fortune as well. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “This isn’t a fortune,” she says, showing it to me. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z It was full of fortune cookies—thin wafers that had been folded so there was an air space in each one. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z After the website he’d spent a fortune to get running had failed to do anything but waste his time, he began to read book after book on missing children. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “I know the first revival is free, but the rest must be costing your parents a fortune.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “But, mother, I did not come to hear Mr. Rochester’s fortune: I came to hear my own; and you have told me nothing of it.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He had already spent much of the fortune left to him by his father, fruitlessly seeking the Philosopher’s Stone. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Richard, you must have paid a fortune to have this shipped here!” a particularly wizened old woman said. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z It was extraordinary good fortune to be able to save up one’s money and go see one’s mother whenever one wanted to. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z All eyes are fixed on people like Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey, who have defied the odds and risen to power, fame, and fortune. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Think maybe he could get autographs too, Moose? Because Al Capone’s signature, that is worth a fortune! This is the beginning, Moose!” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “But this is for our fortune, so they don’t have to work so hard anymore,” Minli told herself when she thought about the worry they must have been feeling. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Nemesis popped a cookie in her mouth and swallowed it, fortune and all. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I didn’t think too much of fate or fortunes, but a dried-up spring sure didn’t seem like a great start. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z In a few years, without effort, simply by luck, he had accumulated one of the largest fortunes in the swamp thanks to the supernatural proliferation of his animals. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The recent catastrophe cost the family a fortune in insurance deductibles. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “These photos will be worth a fortune one day,” the man took the opportunity to say. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z “Thank you, sir, but a less agreeable man would satisfy me. We must not all expect Jane’s good fortune.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Would he keep searching for Parker’s fortune without her if they didn’t find it before she left? The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Men of consequence and means, who had made their fortunes exploiting laborers in their factories, drifted along next to those who had lost their lives toiling on those same factory machines. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z In the first half of the nineteenth century, owners of whaling ships amassed fortunes from oil and built the still well-preserved Federalist and Greek Revival mansions on upper Main Street. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She says even if you bought the Globe just for that reason, you’d save a fortune on wrapping. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z As if the past was recyclable and all he had to do was collect enough cans to make a fortune and make another start. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z All their own wealth and good fortune seemed to them as nothing compared with Psyche’s, and their envious anger so worked in them that they came finally to plotting how to ruin her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “They’re worth a fortune. But I guess it would be an imitation dog: ersatz. Right? But those are made of wires and motors; they can’t be eaten.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Flight is change, and change is pleasurable when fortunes are low. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Ride to good fortune, and ride back soon to our welcome!' The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I pick up a ceramic fortune cookie with a slip of paper sticking out: Your strength is your own belief. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z It was Artemis the First, our subject’s father, who had thrown the family fortune into jeopardy. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The country wives would hold me in dishonor if he, with all his fortune, lay unshrouded.’ The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He lost his entire fortune when he was moving from New York to California. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “The peach was so delicious, I wish for all of you to be able to taste it. If you would humor an old man and stay a little while, I’ll share my good fortune.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “My dear friend,” said Mr. Pumblechook, taking me by both hands, when he and I and the collation were alone, “I give you joy of your good fortune. Well deserved, well deserved!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z He did not know that this day, after enduring more than a week of bad news, he would enjoy a stunning reversal of fortune. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately that just reminded him of Nemesis’s fortune cookie, tucked inside one of the pockets. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I don’t know what I did to deserve two close encounters of the Neil kind in less than a week, but I wasn’t about to question my good fortune. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z We would like to discuss a letter concerning a lost fortune, and the Allen family's role in driving Enoch Washington and his family from Lambert. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z My fortune says, Why don’t you look up once in a while? Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Gran’s secret to no signs of feline life—no evidence of cat hair or litter—could earn her a fortune. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z She must only be asking if there are any I want as she proffers the tray like a wheel of good fortune. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When he reached the entrance, he spied, with a feeling of good fortune, Colonel Korn trotting up the wide steps alone. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “But, you . . . the dragon sputtered, “your fortune, your parents . Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z I wondered if her great beauty and massive fortune were enough to protect her from a lifetime of torture? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z When our entire fortune was lost to the surging waters of the Bistrifa—a shipload of fabric and ready-made clothes gone in an instant—he returned to his former career. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She had been married to Grandfather only a year before he had left to make his fortune. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z In California, Shin began giving God all the credit for his escape from Camp 14 and for his good fortune in finding a way out of North Korea and China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The rent was fifty-five rupees a month—about a dollar in today’s terms, but a colossal fortune for her family. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Durham’s fortunes were about to change, however, and in an unlikely fashion. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “I could use the fortune cookie to find your brother.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Her severity made the house a redoubt of old customs in a town convulsed by the vulgarity with which the outsiders squandered their easy fortunes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Sons every year; the house was full of good fortune—this woman brought him nothing but good fortune. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z To understand long-ago Indian lives, one cannot avoid the accounts of the first literate people who saw them: European swashbucklers, fortune hunters, and missionaries. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Private wills are not legal: a man dying leaves his fortune to the state. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Crazy Mary was a large girl and had a big black mole on her face, which is a sign of fortune. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t really believe in charms or fortune telling or ghosts. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It was just that everyone else came second to his dreams of fame and fortune. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z She wouldn’t be cracking open fortune cookies in the middle of the Great Salt Lake. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z My brothers think that my new fortune is more than luck—it’s a sign from Allah that I’m supposed to do something different with my life. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “It appears not: I fancy neither she nor her sister have very large fortunes. Old Lord Ingram’s estates were chiefly entailed, and the eldest son came in for everything almost.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “Maybe it will bring fortune to our house.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z It seemed to him as he walked into the sharp sunshine of the dusty street that there was never a man so filled with good fortune as he. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, is but to afford a vent to the unusual ebullition of the sensations. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The interview woman is delirious at the good fortune of meeting both sister and daughter of the heroine of the Fourteenth of June underground. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Very well. What is it you want? Your fortune? Your future?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Doughty grunted agreement, surveying the action taking place at the tables below—dice, cards, Makker’s Wheel, fortunes won and lost, and a delicious slice of all of it came to Rollins. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Such good fortune was almost impossible to believe. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z With tremendous good fortune and not a few connections they’d found a way to send their daughter abroad, on a student visa. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m afraid, however,” Count Olaf said, “that it is legally binding. Tomorrow, Mr. Poe, I shall come down to the bank and withdraw the complete Baudelaire fortune.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Countless times he could have abandoned us, taken his fortune, and fled. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z After a while, the girls celebrated their good fortune by breaking into the provisions. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z When Mama Ya-Ya gave me the bubbles last Christmas, she told me that cherries were a sign for good fortune and sweet character. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z But on the side where the fortune would go, there was just a line drawing of a rose—otherwise, it was totally blank. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In Jane Austen novels, a death often precipitates the loss of a fortune, which propels the heroine to seek a husband. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He told her that he could see that she was highly born and blessed by good fortune. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “One man’s junk makes another man’s fortune. It’s amazing what you can do with a little rust remover and some elbow grease.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z First Day of 1946 Little Book, I pulled out Regular from under my pillow for my New Year’s fortune. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I had tempted my good fortune too far. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I was carrying a fortune in cash so I kept my eyes sideways and down, on the fumy river of loud trucks and slow tankers flowing underneath us. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z She had to change her fortune; she must ask how to do that. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Minli could not remember a time when Ma did not sigh; it often made Minli wish she had been called a name that meant gold or fortune instead. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z He decided that a fortune could be made catching shrimp and abalone off the coast of Mexico, then bringing it back to dry and sell in southern California. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z On another day, Mulch might have pointed out that luck and fortune were basically the same thing. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z By good fortune, there existed a well-known Preparatory School for boys about a mile from our house. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy they called Dirtyhands didn’t need a reason any more than he needed permission—to break a leg, sever an alliance, or change a man’s fortunes with the turn of a card. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Ah, the Harmattan has brought us good fortune again!” he would exclaim when he returned from harvesting rice. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, after watching Dimitri eat both of their fortune cookies without reading either prediction, she had made her error: she had asked him to be her date to her senior prom. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It was estimated that Adam had spent a fortune on his idea, but how big a fortune no one knew. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z His last uncle had just died and left him a large fortune consisting of property in the South and in Fort Worth, Texas. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was used in reference to some nice old poopy elder statesman who’d made a fortune in the stock market and then gone to Washington to be an adviser to President Roosevelt. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z I reached over to look at my dad’s fortune. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Ophie saw how quickly and easily the Carutherses hired and fired help, and it once again lit a fire of anger in her that her and her mama’s fortunes were so out of their control. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z As people come to her for their palms to be read or their fortunes told, she puts on a show. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z People who have made fortunes from technology—Microsoft, PayPal, Amazon, and Google—are taking the vision that led to their successes and translating it into developing rockets and spaceships. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z He had made his mind up the night before, when he realized that it was senseless to continue leading a hermit’s life while seeking for a quick fortune. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a grief to see the best of Zairean genius and diplomacy spent on bare survival, while fortunes in diamonds and cobalt are slipped daily out from under our feet. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be just like his father, Martin thought, to comport himself like a pauper while hiding a fortune. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “And Mary King is safe!” added Elizabeth; “safe from a connection imprudent as to fortune.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z It wasn’t a fortune but it was wages. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z And when the food comes, me and King always throw the fortune cookies at each other and try to whack them to pieces with the chopsticks. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The frontiers between the three superstates are in some places arbitrary, and in others they fluctuate according to the fortunes of war, but in general they follow geographical lines. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z And if what happened to Eiffel happened to him, his fortune would be assured. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z While accumulating a vast fortune in his native Canada, Stewart had become the focal point of a business scandal. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though we were close to starving at the end of the time in Brünnlitz, we managed to survive because Schindler chose to spend his fortune on buying us food. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “A man’s fortune is his own affair,” said Wednesday, stiffly. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z But so far trouble had not come; and as Mr. Baggins was generous with his money, most people were willing to forgive him his oddities and his good fortune. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Artemis Fowl had devised a plan to restore his family’s fortune. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z After we finish dinner, I pass out the fortune cookies. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z It’s almost time to go “Also,” Minerva adds, “Padre Ignacio condemns fortunes only if you believe a human being knows what only God can know.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At the turn of the last century, someone thought he could make his fortune raising the timber for railroad ties. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “He recognizes Nemesis cracked another cookie and wrinkled her nose. “You will have great fortune when you least expect it,” she read. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Cost me a fortune by the time I get back.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Harris came into his money at twenty-one after Harvard and grew the fortune doing business I never bothered to understand. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “Oh, I almost forgot!” she runs off, quickly returning with a small golden plate with fortune cookies. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “Yes, and folks come from miles to drink, even bathe in it. Burton will make a fortune.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I guess one side represents good fortunes while the other side represents bad omens. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Or had I best join fortunes with a suitor, the noblest one, most lavish in his gifts? The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterwards we played our old childhood game, opening the Bible and teasing a fortune out of whatever verse our hands landed on. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was always touchy about the fact that Harry, who had inherited a small fortune from his parents, had much more money than he did. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The tide rolls with corporate fortunes and the global economy, and relos are not singled out in census statistics. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The silent sisters prepared men for the grave, and it was ill fortune to look on the face of death. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z That means I will be handling their enormous fortune and figuring out where you children will go. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z The very considerable rise in the fame and fortune of the Cottons dates from this time; but at the top of the Roll in all accounts stand the names of Captains Meriadoc and Peregrin. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z On the very top lay the gold threaded pouch that held the ripped page of fortune. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z My grandfather doesn’t look very happy when he reads his fortune. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z “Good fortune go with you, Matthias. I wish that I were young and agile once again so that I could accompany you.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Some would go upstairs to Hazel’s mother to have their fortunes read or to buy charms from Marie Levesque, the famous gris- gris queen. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Others swore that the woman’s good-for- nothing son had gambled away the family’s entire fortune. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z When I was fourteen, the grand climateric struck again, and my fortunes took a turn that made me actually long for the safety and security of the Brights' home. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “You know, Enrique, that I don’t believe in fortunes,” Mama says evenly. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Enrique is hungry, but he fears that the half-dozen rolls from the food throwers might be all there is to his good fortune, so he stashes them for later. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z "His first time! Come on. I've spent a fortune in this place!" Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Will was well along the way to accidental fortune. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “It sounds like something you’d read on a bad fortune cookie.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z John Wilkes Booth came and lost his savings, then went off to kill a president, but others stayed and made a fortune. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z All his neighbors, though, were certain that it was a sign from heaven of his ill fortune. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z On one trip, John Lyon cleared £900 after expenses, a considerable fortune, then returned the next year and made nearly as much again. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The boy with the bag of bones has become skilled at telling fortunes. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Heiress to the island, the fortune, and the expectations. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “Ma will never stop sighing unless our fortune changes. But how will it ever change?” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z The Irishman staked a claim, opened a brick factory on the banks of the North Saskatchewan River, and made a fortune on the Northwest’s turn-of-the-century construction boom. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “While I am about it, I might as well seek my fortune, too,” he thought. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z "Here, young man, you owe much of your good fortune in attending such a school to her." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z My good fortune, the fortune that saved my life, was that he was not only a young adult but a pliable young adult, an omega animal. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Can't believe his good fortune, and yet he's appalled at his own rashness. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z I would never take our good fortune or comfort for granted, though what I began to appreciate more was the humanity of the place. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It was like a sudden turn of fortune, to be thrust one day into womanhood. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Given to me toward some future fortune. “...number ninety, number ninety-three, number ninety-nine, and number one hundred. Please stay.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “We will set a new standard for entertainment! If Mother is pleased, we can write our own ticket to fame and fortune!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Even so, it is a lot of Congolese francs and would be a Congolese fortune if that were that, but it is not. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been made for royal joys, for the fortunes of a nation. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Heiress to the island, the fortune, and the expectations. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “If you are working,” said Nicki Gamble, whose husband, Richard, is an heir to the Procter & Gamble fortune, “it is very nerve-racking. The way to be here is not to be working.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “Look, I hate Ares as much as anybody, but you don’t ignore the gods unless you want serious bad fortune. He wasn’t kidding about turning you into a rodent.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The accession of fortune, the discovery of my relations, followed in due order. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The reckless passion of the heroine, Arabella, for a wicked foreign count is punished by ill fortune when she contracts cholera during an impetuous dash toward a seaside town with her intended. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I’ve never been to a psychic's house before, but I guess I expected something different, like a big glowing sign that said palm reading or fortunes here. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Long, long ago, there lived a most honorable man who owed much of his good fortune to the kindness of his friend. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z And all the time there had been a small fortune belonging to him, buried deep under London. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z They decided that a small town like Sarpsborg in a small country like Norway was no place in which to make a fortune. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z To see chains on another person and be glad they are not your own—such was the good fortune permitted colored people, defined by how much worse it could be any moment. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The tidings of my high fortunes having had a heavy fall had got down to my native place and its neighbourhood before I got there. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The Frenchman never spoke of his private life, except to slip in certain subtle hints that would enable an astute observer to recognize his splendid past, his incalculable fortune, and his noble origins. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It is no great wonder if, in the long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Seven years, then, my sojourn lasted there, and I amassed a fortune, going about among the openhanded Egyptians. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “These things don’t make sense. These are not fortunes, they are bad instructions.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “What is it you want to tell me? Did someone die and leave us a fortune?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “No one shall take our good fortune from us,” he said. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s not like they gambled away their family fortunes. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z “Good fortune has come to the village,” Ma said, smiling. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z He made a fortune in sea traffic among those distant races, but while he did so, the foul crime was planned and carried out in Argos by Aigisthos, who ruled over golden Mykenai seven years. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Frankweiler amassed a fortune from the corn oil industry and from developing many corn products. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Did he come here to Baltimore to seek his fortune? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Ford gives me his fortune so I can read it. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The Great Depression had wiped out many Osage fortunes that had already been diminished by guardians and thieves. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The man at O’Riordan’s Travel Agency says he can’t get me to America by air unless I travel to London first, which would cost a fortune. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z As Halliday’s former closest friend, everyone assumed he alone could explain why the deceased billionaire had put his entire fortune up for grabs. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Siobhan is the key; the one who will lead you to my fortune. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z They let us come in and watch the ladies slip fortunes inside flat yellow cookie dough, then fold the dough over. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Supposedly he and his grown-up sons tell fortunes by throwing chicken bones into a calabash bowl. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Like a teller of fortunes he then gazes into my eyes darkly. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘What an evil fortune! And I am already weary.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Not a fortune, as we could have if you’d let us give them a contract, but, say, twenty-five thousand dollars.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Miyax could not believe her good fortune—an entire caribou felled practically at her door. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I realized my good fortune at being raised by Rain, who never broke a promise and never let me down in any way. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “Not a single living soul she would lay claim to. And even if she did, she didn’t have a fortune to leave.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “Veer, there’s got to be some explanation. He spent a fortune on those. It doesn’t make sense.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z But to a kid who’d grown up with nothing, it seemed like a fortune. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Why then did they not court her in the proper way for a lady of family and fortune by giving her costly gifts? Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But my father rubbed his hands in delight, for even these lowly quarters proved his good fortune. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “I’ll get my hands on your fortune if it’s the last thing I do,” the voice hissed. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z “Territorial Kantorek, we have the good fortune to live in a great age, we must brace ourselves and triumph over hardship.” All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond that, all of them felt a certain amount of moral indebtedness to the bank since it had helped them make their fortunes. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Our fortune is now the worst, for our only daughter is gone! ” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Thus I have created an opportunity for Lambert to earn back everything I took from the city—a fortune totaling $40 million at my last reckoning. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He studies the signs: the Sword that robbed him of his treasure re-made; the winds of fortune turning in our favour, and the defeat unlooked-for of his first assault; the fall of his great Captain. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z When a man makes his fortune in oil or government contracts, in chemicals or wholesale groceries, his first act is to buy a ranch, the largest he can afford, and to run some cattle. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z And the tradition of hard work is maintained whatever the fortune or lack of it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Until he pictured Theresa alive; then a sense of unutterable good fortune settled over him. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z With Queen Gertrude’s words of approval my fortunes changed, and I became a member of her household. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I hastily stuffed my fortune into my pocket, repositioned myself on the scratchy mat, and a wonderful thought slid into my head as I slid off the lip. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z She answered carefully: “Your vision is not the same as a fortune foretold by a traveling mystic. It is not a prediction of the future, Taisin.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z And Celaena was willing to bet a fortune that this was anything but a surprise—the woman had probably been waiting here for a while. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “That I won’t get the chance to see what I can do with the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,” I said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z He spent several months devoting himself to his campaign, drawing on the support of the Conservative Party, as well as his own fortune, which he placed at the disposal of the cause. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Her lips moved feverishly in prayer to Lord Hanuman as she asked that good fortune smile on her oldest son. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “In my fortune for you, I should have said you would have a long life and a happy one, with many children.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Around those axes turned the fortunes of history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Now we could say we had real Chinese fortune cookies in Chinatown. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The Gypsies always came in August—telling fortunes, selling lace, tarring barn roofs, trading horses and mules. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It was a stinging slap to all of the black workers who had hitched their fortunes to the white man’s union. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The same happiness, the same sadness, the same good fortune, the same faults. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He folded the fortune up and put it in his inside pocket. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Today, though, all Leo could think about was the stupid fortune cookie he had opened in Rome. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He delivers us our fortune cookies at the end of the meal. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Ralph spent the better part of his drive home congratulating himself on his good fortune. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z It was rumored that he had abandoned power and fortune in his distant nation, although his origins were actually never known. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She could live off of her fortune until old age. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z And whatever the next words were: “The time I had to escape from Moscow?” or “The time I lost an Alaskan gold mine, worth a fortune?” or “The cattle stampede on the pampas?,” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Me and Joey crowded up next to them on the couch and heard Grandma Sands yell, “This is costing y’all a fortune, Daniel, let me talk to my baby again.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She kept pulling new ones from her sack, cracking them open, and reading the fortunes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z This is a great deal of money even today, but in 1793 it was a fortune. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Write about the moment of your most dishonorable intentions in the form of a fortune cookie. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z She answered bitterly, “Good fortune! Say, rather, sorrow that makes life insupportable.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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