1 The water treatment was new, now, and Tom's low condition was a windfall to her.
2 THE reader may rest satisfied that Tom's and Huck's windfall made a mighty stir in the poor little village of St. Petersburg.
3 An if I get a windfall, I thank my stars.
4 The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE 5 Such an unexpected acquisition both of dead souls and of runaway serfs had come as a windfall.
6 This royal renown sometimes drew down upon him singular windfalls.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN 7 He strolled out beyond the Salpetriere into deserted regions; that is where windfalls are to be found; where there is no one, one always finds something.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI... 8 The early apples were now ripening, and the grass of the orchard was littered with windfalls.