Word Finder - fortunate

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Auspicious.

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It is a fortunate sign if the sun shines on a newly wedded couple.

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Happening by good luck or favorable chance.

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Patrick was the unlikely match-winner as Berkeley earned a fortunate victory over Chisolm.

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Favored by fortune.

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This is a time when we think of those less fortunate than ourselves.

She was so fortunate to have such a wonderful family.

How fortunate! he thought.

I consider myself fortunate to have such a subordinate by me.

Yes, life had changed in the last six months, but they were fortunate that those changes had been for the good.

And how fortunate he was to have people who cared for him.

You're fortunate to be here.

My neighbors will be fortunate if I don't destroy them next.

I already have the seventh and eighth books of the "Aeneid" and one book of the "Iliad," all of which is most fortunate, as I have come almost to the end of my embossed text-books.

It was fortunate that he didn't take someone else with him.

They were fortunate - fortunate to have each other and fortunate to have adopted two wonderful children.

He had been fortunate to catch her on lunch break from her bedside vigil at her mother's apartment.

She was not very fortunate in this first marriage, but her brother's accession to the throne made her, next to their mother Louise of Savoy, the most powerful woman of the kingdom.

Brandon was fortunate to have been raised by two people who cared as much about each other as they cared for him.

We're both fortunate, Quinn.

The Others were not so fortunate, though the Originals all escaped.

Sigismund, more fortunate than the Polish kings, seems to have had little trouble with his diets.

He was fortunate in serving under active officers, and had opportunities of seeing service in the North Sea.

I'm sure you feel guilty, but it's fortunate that you weren't with them.

They were all so fortunate to have each other.

In order to see the difference in this respect between the schools we have only to compare the peaceful and fortunate life of William of Champeaux (who enjoyed the friendship of St Bernard) with the agitated and persecuted existence of Roscellinus and, in a somewhat less degree, of Abelard.

He appar­ently was given a whiff of the bigs in a losing September when a few fortunate minor leaguers get a peek of how the other side lives.

Didn't they know how fortunate they were to have each other - to have any family?

Am I not very fortunate?

This was his last fortunate excavation.

Fortunate for him it was then near enough to the end of the line that his fall wasn't far enough to kill him.

Father we are truly blessed, may you bless those who are less fortunate.

Weren't we very fortunate?

You are fortunate, for the latter are generally the stronger!

A fortunate event soon withdrew him from the medical profession.

Then, resolved to explore to the rock, he cleared away some three feet more of earth and stones, and lighted on the five shaft graves which have placed him first among fortunate excavators.

But Bessemer was fortunate enough to maintain them intact without litigation, though he found it advisable to buy up the rights of one patentee, while in another case he was freed from anxiety by the patent being allowed to lapse in 1859 through non-payment of fees.

How fortunate we are?

The last visit in 1648 was less fortunate.

That the divine will is expressed by it, Cumberland, " not being so fortunate as to possess innate ideas," tries to prove by a long inductive examination of the evidences of man's essential sociality exhibited in his physical and mental constitution.

The creditors threatened to surrender him to Henry VII., but, more fortunate than his brother, he found a safe refuge at Buda with King Ladislas VI.

Both irregularities had been noted, a century earlier, by Edmund Halley; both had, since that time, vainly exercised the ingenuity of the ablest mathematicians; both now almost simultaneously yielded their secret to the same fortunate inquirer.

After many wanderings, and after having been condemned to death for heresy at Vienne, whence he was fortunate enough to make his escape, Servetus arrived in August 1553 at Geneva on his way to Naples.

Dr Guppy was fortunate in reaching North Keeling Island, where a landing is only possible during the calmest weather.

The conversion of Clovis was a master-stroke; it was fortunate both for himself and for the Franks.

The efforts of Philip the Fair to expand the limits of his kingdom on the eastern border were more fortunate.

Mazarin had not been so fortunate in Italy, where in 1642 the Spanish remained masters.

He was less fortunate in his efforts to vindicate the rights of his wife Beatrix to the throne of Portugal.

The fortunate discovery of several hundred Cycadean stems in the United States, of Lower Cretaceous and Upper Jurassic age, has supplied abundant material which has lately been investigated and is still receiving attention at the hands of Mr Wieland.

In having Cavour as his chief adviser Victor Emmanuel was most fortunate, and but for that statesman's astounding diplomatic genius the liberation of Italy would have been impossible.

With so many people in their house, it was fortunate that the weather was warm and dry so they could utilize the courtyard for the children.

They were fortunate to have Destiny and Jonathan.

It was a scene not unfamiliar to Adrienne, but she had been fortunate up to this point that it had never been a personal tragedy.

It's true Mr. Dean has been under fire—it's fortunate we're standing here today—not sitting.

Yes, we're fortunate and I'm grateful for what we have.

Pietersen was also fortunate during a typically belligerent conversation that Flintoff would have a declaration to mull over.