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forte

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Forte \For"te\ (f[^o]r"t[asl] or f[=o]r"t[asl]), adv. [It. forte, a. & adv., fr. L. fortis strong.] (Mus.) Loudly; strongly; powerfully.

Usage examples of forte.

Ripley Forte shoved the eight throttles forward until the indicator needle bit into the red.

Silent and sinister, its base-shrouded in fog, the berg loomed above Forte and his jet sled like a Matterhorn suspended in space.

His weathered face framed by bulbous orange ear defenders that only partially blocked out the din of the jet engines, Ripley Forte squinted through the icy spray at the inertial-navigation dial on the control panel.

But Gwillam Forte cast so long a shadow, it had seemed that his son would never get clear of it.

Soon Ripley Forte would be rich--richer than his billionaire father had ever dreamed of being.

Gwillam Forte was already a rich man when Ripley, his firstborn, became aware that his was no ordinary father.

He was out in the world Gwillam Forte, with two plastic legs and a steel hook instead of a hand, had taken on and conquered.

He had been locked up for three of his 18-months sentence when Gwillam Forte got him sprung.

El Cabellejo ranch, angry because his father insisted he return to school, to prepare to succeed him in the management of his dozen oil companies, newspaper chain, and the 40-odd corporations in which Gwillam Forte had important shareholdings.

Instead, Forte joined the Marine Corps, and fought campaigns in Lebanon, Honduras, and Nicaragua.

His father had given him, as promised, total control over operations of the new Forte Oceanic Resources.

The success of Forte Oceanic Resources, Forte argued, depended on developing radical technologies, and the most revolutionary were being discovered and perfected in university laboratories.

Reclamation of these mineral riches, together with mechanized recovery of the abundant phosphorite and manganese nodules from the seabed, put Forte Oceanic Resources in the forefront of American producers of rare metals.

As national stockpiles of metals dwindled in the mid-1990s, the price of minerals extracted from the sea by Forte Oceanic Resources skyrocketed.

In the aftermath, the State of Texas went its own way as the Republic of Texas, Gwillam Forte was enshrined in the Texas pantheon along with Stephen Austin and Sam Houston, and his vast estate was divided among his numerous ex-wives and their progeny.