1 I had the good fortune to seize upon that, and everything which has occurred since then has served to confirm my original supposition, and, indeed, was the logical sequence of it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS 2 For the first few minutes the animals could hardly believe in their good fortune.
3 It had become usual to give Napoleon the credit for every successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune.
4 We might have made a match of it, Sir Spaniel, had fortune favoured.
5 In this character, it was frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of down-going men.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR 6 He inherited a fair fortune from his uncle, but owed it all before he came into it, and spent it twice over immediately afterwards.
7 The champions a second time sprung from their stations, and closed in the centre of the lists, with the same speed, the same dexterity, the same violence, but not the same equal fortune as before.
8 As he spoke thus, an unexpected incident changed the fortune of the day.
9 I am not romantic fool enough to further the fortune, or avert the fate, of one who is likely to be a successful obstacle between me and my wishes.
10 Ivanhoe, extricating himself from his fallen horse, was soon on foot, hastening to mend his fortune with his sword; but his antagonist arose not.
11 He was a young Irishman who had already made a large fortune by his plays in America.
12 Their host was a heavy, rather coarse Scotchman who had made a good fortune in Italy before the war, and had been knighted for his ultrapatriotism during the war.
13 His wife was a thin, pale, sharp kind of person with no fortune of her own, and the misfortune of having to regulate her husband's rather sordid amorous exploits.
14 But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.
15 Mr. Norris, a friend of her brother-in-law, with scarcely any private fortune, and Miss Frances fared yet worse.