1 Subsequent experiences with rattlesnakes taught me that my first encounter was fortunate in circumstance.
2 After nearly ten years in the Klondike, Tiny returned, with a considerable fortune, to live in San Francisco.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContextHighlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I 3 The poor fellow thought it great good fortune to be cared for by a woman, and a woman who spoke his own tongue.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContextHighlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I 4 He had never been in a railway train until the morning when we set out together to try our fortunes in a new world.
5 AT THE UNIVERSITY I had the good fortune to come immediately under the influence of a brilliant and inspiring young scholar.
6 Old Colonel Raleigh had come to Lincoln from Kentucky and invested an inherited fortune in real estate, at the time of inflated prices.
7 Just then it was the fashion to speak indulgently of Lena and severely of Tiny Soderball, who had quietly gone West to try her fortune the year before.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContextHighlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I 8 Since the father's death, Ambrosch was more than ever the head of the house, and he seemed to direct the feelings as well as the fortunes of his womenfolk.
9 For Antonia and for me, this had been the road of Destiny; had taken us to those early accidents of fortune which predetermined for us all that we can ever be.
10 There were wooden houses where the old sod dwellings used to be, and little orchards, and big red barns; all this meant happy children, contented women, and men who saw their lives coming to a fortunate issue.
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