Word Finder - fortunes

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Destiny, especially favorable.

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She read my fortune. Apparently I will have a good love life this week, but I will have a bad week for money.

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A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.

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A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.

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The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.

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Good luck.

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Fortune favors the brave.

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One's wealth; the amount of money one has; especially, if it is vast.

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He's amassed a small fortune working in the Middle East.

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A large amount of money.

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That car must be worth a fortune! How could you afford it?

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To happen, take place.

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To provide with a fortune.

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To presage; to tell the fortune of.

But a change in his fortunes was at hand.

This history begins at the time of the council of Clermont, deals with the fortunes of the first crusade and the earlier history of the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem, and ends somewhat abruptly in 11 21.

Under the empire Arvernia formed part of Prima Aquitania, and the district shared in the fortunes of Aquitaine during the Merovingian and Carolingian periods.

In the extremity of his fortunes he had recourse himself to Otto, making a formal cession of the Italian kingdom, in his own name and that of his son Adalbert, to the Saxon as his overlord.

We have to foJiow the fortunes of unexpected allies, upon whom in no small measure his success depended.

He then followed the fortunes of his friend Maurice, the new elector of Saxony, deserted Charles, and joined the league which proposed to overthrow the emperor by an alliance with Henry II.

After Edward's burial, at which he bore the king's banner, Howard, an enemy of the Wydviles, linked his fortunes with those of the duke of Gloucester.

After three such good fortunes by marriage Norfolk in his folly looked for a crown with a fourth match, listening to the laird of Lethington when he set forth the scheme by which the duke was to marry a restored queen of Scots and rule Scotland with her who should be recognized as Elizabeth's successor.

But the lands belonging to these titles remained with the Crown and he had to repair his fortunes by one of those marriages which never failed his house, his wife being Alathea Talbot, who was at last the heir of Gilbert, earl of Shrewsbury.

The class of sages to whom we owe the Wisdom Books did not arise till a change had come over the national fortunes and life.

The other portion, which had stayed behind as a reserve under Domingos Irala, had better fortunes.

It was this Patrick who laid the foundation of the family fortunes.

By this dexterous stroke he gained a new and wealthy kingdom, and completely re-established his fortunes.

Important monopolies in the 18th maritime- century, and prohibitive import duties, as well as large tares and money bounties, in the 19th, contributed towards the pe t t y - In accumulation of immense private fortunes, but manu- pastries.

Of all the princes who sought to advance their fortunes in this way the most dexterous and successful were those of Moscow.

His account of its first reception and subsequent fortunes in England deserves to be cited as a curious piece of literary history.

This is illustrated by his love of Switzerland, his intense interest in the fortunes of that country, his design of writing " The History of the Liberty of the Swiss " - a theme, he says " from which the dullest stranger would catch fire."

By this time the alteration of the coast-line and the filling up of the lagoons had probably commenced, and no historical importance attaches to its subsequent fortunes.

During the summer his fortunes ebbed, and he was soon superseded by his kinsman Owen Roe O'Neill, who returned from military service abroad at the end of July.

But his fortunes changed soon after the accession of Justin II.

The Judaean compiler, with his history of the two kingdoms, looks back upon the time when each laid the foundation of its subsequent fortunes.

The prophets who had marked in the past the advent of Assyrians and Chaldeans now fixed their eyes upon the advance of Cyrus, confident that the fall of Babylon would bring the restoration of their fortunes.

The Jewish embassy was headed by Philo, who has described its fortunes in a tract dealing with the divine punishment of the persecutors.

The reformation as such had no favourable influence on Jewish fortunes in Christian Europe, though the championship of the cause of toleration by Reuchlin had considerable value.

Ceylon, though geographically an annex of India, has not followed its fortunes historically.

The course of oriental conquest followed the events of European politics, and the possessions of European powers in the East generally changed hands according to the fortunes of their masters at home.

The interest of the narratives is now directed away from the Philistines to the decaying fortunes of Saul's house.

It remains to mention briefly the fortunes of each remaining member of the once imperial confederation.

Ultimately the Bonapartes had to flee from Corsica (11th of June 1793), an event which clinched Napoleon's decision to identify his fortunes with those of the French republic. His ardent democratic opinions rendered the change natural when Paoli and his compatriots declared for an alliance with England.

The arrival of the Bonapartes at Toulon coincided with a time of acute crisis in the fortunes of the republic. Having declared war on England and Holland (1st of February 1793), and against Spain (9th of March), France was soon girdled by foes; and the forces of the first coalition invaded her territory at several points.

It is often assumed that the fortunes of Bonaparte were made at Toulon.

But here we may point out the influence of the expedition on Egypt, on European politics and on the fortunes of Bonaparte.

This event opened a new and curious chapter in the history of Europe, that of the fortunes of the Napoleonides.

The fortunes of Agamemnon have formed the subject of numerous tragedies, ancient and modern, the most famous being the Oresteia of Aeschylus.

When the war was over and these cessions had been made a great number of war veterans wished an opportunity to repair their broken fortunes in the West, and Congress, hopeful of receiving a large revenue from the sale of lands here, passed an ordinance on the 20th of May 1785 by which the present national system of land-surveys into townships 6 In.

In politics the period is characterized by Boston's connexion with the fortunes of the Federalist party.

The fortunes of Palmyra now passed into the vigorous hands of Zenobia, who had been actively supporting her husband in his policy.

Fulcher of Chartres originally followed Robert of Normandy, but in October 1097 he joined Baldwin of Lorraine in his expedition to Edessa, and afterwards followed his fortunes.

At the close of the campaign of 1814 he shared with Joseph Bonaparte the responsibility for some of the actions which zealous Bonapartists have deemed injurious to the fortunes of the emperor.

They are first heard of in Savoy in the year 1258, and more than two centuries later they went to Geneva (151o), united with Calvin in his opposition to Rome, and associated their fortunes with those of the little Swiss city.

It henceforth shared the fortunes of this country, and was usually assigned as an apanage to younger members of the Bohemian royal house.

It was not printed till 1558, ten years after the author's death, and then under the title of Les Amants fortunes.

Before the Roman period Marash doubtless shared the fortunes of the Seleucid kingdom of Commagene.

Since its reversion to Ottoman power (1840) the history of Marash has been varied only by Armenian troubles, largely connected with the fortunes of Zeitun, for the reduction of which place it has more than once been used as a base.

Marca now interested himself in the fortunes of Mazarin, and remained faithful to him even during the xvn.

The habit of absolute rule, always dangerous, was peculiarly corrupting when it penetrated every department of daily life, and when no external interference checked individual caprice in its action on the feelings and fortunes of inferiors.

It divides itself naturally, by its contents, into two parts, in one of which the theme is righteousness and wisdom, in the other the early fortunes of the Israelite people considered as a righteous nation beloved by God.

Intervention by the United States seemed probable, but did not come, and after alternations in the fortunes of war, Martinez Campos in January 1878 secured the acceptance by the rebels of the convention (pacto) of Zanjon, which promised amnesty for the war, liberty to slaves in the rebel ranks, the abolition of slavery, reforms in government, and colonial autonomy.

Probably the abolition of the slave-trade in 1834 was not without its effect upon the fortunes of the landed'.

After the disaster of Angora, from which it seemed impossible that the Ottoman fortunes could ever recover, the princes fled each with as many troops as he could induce to Inter- follow him, being hotly pursued by Timur's armies.