What is "fortunes"

Usage examples of "fortunes".

The people said, Verily Demochares is right happy, in that after the death of so many beasts, hee hath gotten maugre fortunes head, so goodly a bear.

I have said, on my return from Spain, and my fortunes were at a low ebb.

As might be expected, the men who solicit the cardinal for our hands are either madmen, or fellows of desperate fortunes who want the two hundred piastres.

Many fortunes are made in this manner, and there are some which originated still more nobly.

She was also very glad to be going to Genoa, where she was sure of finding a true friend in Rosalie, who would sympathize with her, their fortunes having been very similar.

I have hitherto imagined myself acquainted with the degree of all the great fortunes of Europe, and still wealth such as yours has been wholly unknown to me.

I call those third-rate fortunes, which are composed of a fluctuating capital, dependent upon the will of others, or upon chances which a bankruptcy involves or a false telegram shakes, such as banks, speculations of the day -- in fact, all operations under the influence of greater or less mischances, the whole bringing in a real or fictitious capital of about fifteen millions.

I was only speaking in reference to the second-rate fortunes we were mentioning just now.

As for the accused himself, many remembered him as being so amiable, so handsome, and so liberal, that they chose to think him the victim of some conspiracy, since in this world large fortunes frequently excite the malevolence and jealousy of some unknown enemy.

I mean where persons of immense fortunes contract themselves to those who are, and must be, disagreeable to them- to fools and knaves- in order to increase an estate already larger even than the demands of their pleasures.

Chevalier should get the better, she may gain us interest at court, and make our fortunes without betraying her.

Leaving Claire and Gervais on one side, there were as yet only Denis and Ambroise--the first to wing their flight abroad--engaged in building up their fortunes in Paris.

Thus by the telling of fortunes, they gathered a great quantity of money, but when they were weary with giving of answers, they drave me away before them next night, through a lane which was more dangerous and stony then the way which we went the night before, for on the one side were quagmires and foggy marshes, on the other side were falling trenches and ditches, whereby my legges failed me, in such sort that I could scarce come to the plaine field pathes.

Thanks to Sulla, Lucullus is fabulously rich, and has besides control of the fortunes of The Heavenly Twins.