| The Frenchmen however discording with the English, departed and left Captain Morgan and his countrymen to seek fortune in their own way. |
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| Here the secret of American hegemony has lain rather in formulaic abstraction, the basis for the fortune of Hollywood. |
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| If you've had the good fortune to taste its milk, you'll instantly notice the difference. |
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| I do tend to rule out France and Germany precisely because their systems cost a fortune. |
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| For example, the Fortune Cookie ice cream includes bits of fortune cookies enrobed with chocolate. |
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| Whack them in the microwave for a few seconds, douse them in cream and pretend you're paying a fortune at a gastropub. |
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| Since Ellis, who had made his fortune in the travel business, took over at Villa Park, 11 managers have been driven to distraction by him. |
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| The room was brightly lit, dealers sat at the card tables and the wheel of fortune turned. |
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| A member of the equestrian order, he had made a fortune in finance and investing. |
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| Ms Bonder, married Mr Kerkorian in August 1999 and signed a pre-nuptial agreement waiving any claim to his fortune. |
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| Three years on and Europe has come to experience a spectacular reversal of fortune in the economic realm. |
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| He had inherited a fortune from the family business of making drills for oil exploration, then dominated Hollywood as a film director. |
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| Throughout that career, he has shown such genius for dividing opinion and pouring lemon into wounds that he has made himself a fortune. |
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| An extoller of the simple, rooted life, he nevertheless accumulated a sizable fortune and lived very well indeed. |
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| The couple raked in millions of dollars but the credit card charges that made their fortune also led to their downfall. |
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| They'd blown a fortune downlinking the relays to ground-level stations with omnidirectional antennae. |
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| I now complete my journey in half the time, stress has been replaced with enjoyment and I'm saving a small fortune. |
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| Writing books about how to make a fortune on the Internet seems like a great method. |
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| We can save a small fortune by simply dropping bad habits like smoking, drinking and gambling. |
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| Instead, Queen Gertrude seizes the chalice and drinks to her son's good fortune. |
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| This weekend many pubs will be decked out in flags and banners and a growing number of councils are spending a small fortune on celebrations. |
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| He signed away all claims to Doris's fortune but got back at her exactly where it hurt. |
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| Particular mention should be made of Mike Kelly, who remains the most principled man it's ever been my good fortune to meet. |
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| Anna is a femme fatale looking for a young powerful lover to help her murder her decrepit husband and make off with his fortune. |
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| The charity stresses joining the club need not cost a fortune as UK taxpayers can gift-aid donations to reclaim the tax they have paid. |
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| As soon as you examine the alternative you see what good fortune this accident of human demographics has bestowed on us. |
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| He jumps off the table and shouts with glee, thinking about the fortune waiting for him in the bank. |
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| He changed the fortune of the game by a gloriously timed intercept and a 50 metre run to the line. |
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| In truth, it was more by accident than design but it was a lucky chance which established his fame and fortune. |
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| The scion to a Manhattan real-estate fortune, he had determined early on to pour his wealth into projects that helped other people. |
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| Between 1554 and 1556, when he became the major provisioner of Habsburg troops, he made a second fortune profiteering from the war with France. |
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| It was a welcome piece of good fortune for the Scot, who blamed the wind for losing time in the middle sector of his lap. |
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| The fortune teller informs her that she desires a large house and has many wishes to fulfill. |
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| You display great attention to detail which can be considered good fortune or a curse when it comes to relationships. |
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| My fault for being such an eejit as to give a charlatan a fortune for dressed-up tripe. |
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| For the first eighteen months of his term, Davis enjoyed great political fortune. |
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| He remarked that should some shrewd Yankee set up a grog shop near Mr. Smith's house, he would make his fortune. |
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| And, in the spirit of its trashy themes, it has grossed its director a fortune. |
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| He was being falsely modest afterward, prattling on about how there was an element of good fortune to it, but that's a nonsense. |
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| Why spend a fiscal fortune educating our workforce if they leave the country as soon as they are employable? |
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| He charged that he had personally expropriated the family's property and business interests, which were the foundation of the his multimillion-dollar personal fortune. |
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| They had the good fortune to escape injury when their car crashed. |
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| You've got to feel sorry for the once-proud cybersquatters who bought up huge numbers of domain names hoping to sell them off for a small fortune. |
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| The worshipers light incense sticks, kneel before the main altar, make a wish, and shake a bamboo cylinder containing fortune sticks until one falls out. |
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| They dug, demolished, and dismantled The cathedral brick by brick, looking for the leftovers of Escobar's fortune. |
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| Washington now found himself unable to even see the lands he was banking on to leave a lasting fortune. |
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| His grandfather, alfonso XIII, fled the country during the civil war in 1931 and abandoned his estates and most of his fortune. |
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| Without going into too much detail, Mr. Skeffington is the story of an orphaned but popular young New York debutante and her morose brother, who squanders their fortune. |
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| That the enemy had not singled Winfred out to be easy prey was nothing short of pure fortune, especially with the battle still raging before his eyes. |
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| The product of zero multiplied by a debt or fortune is zero. |
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| Requests for the money soon follow, the demands for which increase until the recipients finally realise that there is no fortune and that they've been duped. |
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| Examples of demeritorious actions might include killing an animal, speaking abusively to another, or fanning the flames of our own jealousy at someone else's good fortune. |
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| What point is there in spending a fortune in promoting Scotland as a country to visit and to do business in when the first impression is one of third-world dirt and squalor. |
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| After losing a fortune on the dishlickers, he found his radio had been nicked, and when he went to the car park to go home, he found his car had been pinched too! |
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| There was also a Santeria altar, upon which animal entrails had been arrayed in hopes of bringing ill fortune to several people listed on an attached piece of paper. |
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| The rising hip-hop diva has had a lot of good fortune come her way lately. |
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| The payment of salaries is quite often irregular and it is a dog's life for the majority of labourers who go in search of a fortune across the seas. |
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| Deciding to take a gamble, he packed up and airfreighted much of his stock to New York City, bought a round-trip ticket, and set out to make his fortune. |
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| Your popularity and fortune will soar if you make a dramatic impression. |
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| The jovial, comic book dramaturgy, featuring sudden changes of fortune and explosive showdown scenes, contributed to the immense success of this film. |
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| She donated a fifth of her fortune towards it and worked to obtain donations from other wealthy families in the city. |
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| Now something of a forgotten figure, James was a land surveyor who had made a fortune in property speculation. |
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| Guru Gobind Singh makes it clear that human birth is obtained with great fortune, therefore one needs to be able to make the most of this life. |
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| He had risked all his fortune on one cast of the die, and, gamblerlike, had lost everything. |
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| He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. |
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| During her time she continued to increase her fortune by becoming a significant player in the rag trade. |
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| From 1768 to 1774 number 9 was home to Philip Thicknesse, a soldier of fortune. |
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| First there's the nervy Helena who consults a fortune teller when she's abandoned by her husband, who takes up with a younger woman. |
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| Happy were it for us all if we bore prosperity as well and wisely as we endure an adverse fortune. |
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| A fortune can be made on the prairie, and that's what me and Mr. B aim to do. Don't aim to be all hat and no cattle forever, let me tell you! |
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| The government was offering the company a fortune, and threatening it with antirobot legislation in case of a refusal. |
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| Anyway, they are paying me a buttload of money to do this series, and I want to share my good fortune with you and that's that. |
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| The cub-reporter cannot make a name for himself unless he is favoured by fortune. |
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| Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune. |
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| I even remember one time having my fortune told at a hare course by an old duckerer, as the Gypsies call their crystalgazers. |
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| It would look like a fable to report that this gentleman gives away a great fortune by secret methods. |
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| I am a huge Fanilow and had the good fortune of meeting and spending a little time with Barry a few years ago. |
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| Ah Ching went to the temple on her behalf on every major festival to kou chim, that is to ask one's fortune through the use of fortune sticks. |
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| Mei Li ran happily down the hill. Surely, if the fortune sticks said she was going to rule a kingdom she would. |
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| Tapie was at the time a famous specialist of rescuing bankrupt companies, an expertise on which he built his fortune. |
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| During this time, due to Heep's fraudulent activities, his aunt's fortune has gone down. |
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| In the context of the ancient tradition and norms of Castilian nobililty, all descendants of a noble are considered noble, regardless of fortune. |
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| The resistance of Eastern parts is due to the demographic fortune of Latinised islands from Transylvania. |
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| Marco Polo returned to Venice in 1295 with his fortune converted into gemstones. |
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| Nothing but air and water was seen for 40 days and by their reckoning they ran 2,000 miles and fortune deserted them. |
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| Good fortune also fell on Tobin following the discovery of a world class nickel deposit at Voisey's Bay, Labrador. |
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| According to Lorenzo, his fortune upon his death was worth around 180,000 gold florins. |
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| This was due to the death of his parents and his dissatisfaction with his eldest sibling, who inherited the family fortune. |
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| A Vermont lawyer intent upon making his fortune and returning home as soon as possible, he left his family to journey to booming San Francisco. |
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| It exudes an aura of a village of yesteryear, populated with modern residents who are clearly aware of their good fortune to live there. |
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| The Camerons' family fortune was built up by his late father, Ian Cameron, who had worked as a stockbroker in the City. |
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| While the cotton gin did not earn Whitney the fortune he had hoped for, it did give him fame. |
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| He directed his trustees to spend his fortune on philanthropic projects, which they still do to this day. |
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| While so exiled, he earned the fortune that he later would use to help Pip. |
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| After being acquitted, Victor returns home with his father, who has restored to Elizabeth some of her father's fortune. |
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| In contrast, theodicies of fortune emphasise the notion that privileges are a blessing and are deserved. |
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| Most of his fortune was lost by the dishonest speculation of an uncle, in whose hands Wilson had carelessly left it. |
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| In 1867, pressed by financial difficulties, Linton decided to try his fortune in America. |
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| His wife has no fortune, so it is imperative that at least one of the girls marry well in order to support the others on his death. |
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| He supported himself through crime for many years, before learning that he could inherit a fortune by murdering his uncle and cousin. |
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| I am, like an old rook, who is ruined by gaming, forced to live on the good fortune of the pushing young men. |
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| He would himself be in the Highlands to receive them, and run his fortune with them. |
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| He rose... on his wife's fortune and judicious smarming of powerful people. |
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| Domestics will pay a more cheerful service when they find themselves not spurned because fortune has laid them at their master's feet. |
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| Marshall didn't stumble on his fortune, but sure enough, his well was filled by the same Texas tea. |
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| My uncle gambled away his fortune, and now he hardly has a penny to his name. |
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| It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. |
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| But we've spent a fortune on lawyers instead of aviation school and wherever this little tweeb is going. |
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| Whilst all appears well for the Wayleen partnership, it appears Wayne's dad, who's also called Wayne isn't having such good fortune. |
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| But to whether side fortune would have been partial could not be determined. |
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| The playboy seemed oblivious to his withering fortune as he continued in his decadent lifestyle. |
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| Friends and relatives were coming out of the woodwork to celebrate his good fortune. |
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| He has given more than PS3million of his PS120million fortune to the Tories and helped bankroll Boris Johnson to be London mayor. |
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| A young man from the boonies comes to New York City to make his fortune. |
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| Parisian cab licenses can also be bought and sold for a small fortune. |
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| That good fortune meant CNN had the only TV correspondent on the scene. |
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| Give him a fortune to spend and ensure all women at the club wear yashmaks for their own safety. |
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| I had the good fortune of having a great teacher who inspired my actions and made me an andrologist. |
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| First, we meet Sharon and Julian who spent a fortune on IVF and now have quadruplets. |
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| Howbeit we have not yet been able to overtake young madam, we may account it some good fortune that we have hitherto traced her course aright. |
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| The money so extracted added to the king's personal fortune rather than the stated purpose. |
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| Ross speculates that he may have borne a grudge against Edward for depriving him of a fortune. |
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| Henry inherited a vast fortune and a prosperous economy from his father Henry VII, who had been frugal and careful with money. |
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| He knew that Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn had amassed a substantial fortune from the Levant and Indian trades. |
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| He made off with a fortune in gold, but had to leave behind another fortune in silver, because it was too heavy to carry back to England. |
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| A hillman from some distant village in Kumaon comes into Almora to make his fortune as a jhampani or coolie. |
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| It was purchased in 1967 by Major Bernard Cayzer, a member of the family that made its fortune through the Clan shipping line. |
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| Many fortune tellers used her effigy and statue, presumably for purposes of association marketing. |
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| In this tale, a young man named Beryn travels from Rome to Egypt to seek his fortune only to be cheated by other businessmen there. |
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| Afterwards, Oberon, Titania, Puck, and other fairies enter, and bless the house and its occupants with good fortune. |
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| The venture was unsuccessful and cost Tetty a substantial portion of her fortune. |
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| He'd left his homeland at fifteen, seeking his fortune on the motorways of Britain with McAlpine's Fusiliers before migrating to Sydney. |
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| Roberts came to own Saltaire, but chose to invest his money heavily in Russia, losing some of his fortune in the Russian Revolution. |
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| Hailwood claimed to have been told by a fortune teller in South Africa that he wouldn't live to 40 and would be killed by a truck. |
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| Elizabeth's personal fortune has been the subject of speculation for many years. |
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| Such an act would explain his remarkable rise in fortune in the years that followed. |
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| These changes in fortune led to debate within the company about carrying on in the aircraft engine market. |
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| The preference for inequality increases in adolescence, and so do the capabilities to favor fortune, effort and ability in the distribution. |
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| Dorrit and her sisters Tamara and Sharon will inherit her fortune, considered among the largest in the world. |
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| It was a tremendous success, bringing its author fame, fortune and literary status. |
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| His will was contested and in 1856, after a court battle, his first cousins, including Thomas Price Turner, received part of his fortune. |
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| It was said that she was strongly interested in fame and fortune, and when household finances dwindled, she complained bitterly. |
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| Or we might go practically unaccompanied, relying on our native wit and good fortune to attain our ends. |
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| Because of the political situation in Europe at the time it was not until December that she learned of her good fortune. |
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| This was just over three years before the Norman invasion of England, which led to a drastic change of fortune for Wales. |
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| John Wilkinson made his fortune selling good quality goods made of iron and reached his limit of investment expansion. |
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| In neighboring Macedonia, however, weasels are generally seen as an omen of good fortune. |
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| Don't you just get sick thinking about all those Silicon Valley optionaires who lost much of their fortune in the tech meltdown? |
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| He inherited a fair fortune from his uncle, but owed it all before he came into it, and spent it twice over immediately afterwards. |
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| And I will yt suche residue as shall fortune to be of my goodes that my saide dere beloved lady and wife have theym to her owne use. |
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| Many rural inhabitants come to the city to seek their fortune and alter their social position. |
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| Supplicants burn paper money and joss sticks, and pray for good fortune to the temple deity, Tua Pek Kong. |
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| He had the fortune to have never been convicted of Piracy and lived a full life beyond his days on the Adventure Prize. |
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| Olaf decided that it was better for him to seek his fortune elsewhere, and set out for the Baltic. |
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| So Olaf went to see the hermit, now convinced he was a real fortune teller. |
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| And as for serving under Goffe, I hope it is no new thing for gentlemen of fortune who are going on the account, to change a Captain now and then? |
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| So Americans are stuck between chef-driven omakase meals at elite restaurants that cost a fortune and the cheap, predictable fare at our neighborhood places. |
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| Col. Isaac Trumbo, who made a fortune in Utah and lost it in San Francisco, died here to-day of injuries received last Saturday night, when he was beaten by footpads. |
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| At his death in 1887, he bequeathed much of his fortune for the people of Manchester, with the Whitworth Art Gallery and Christie Hospital partly funded by Whitworth's money. |
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| When first appointed to the command in the Moluccas, Galvano carried with him a private fortune of 10,000 crusadoes, all of which he expended in the public service. |
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| He moved to New York in 1770 and, as a merchant and prize agent during the American Revolution, made his fortune working at his uncle's counting house. |
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| He convinced thousands of people, mostly in the American Midwest, that Drake's fortune was being held by the British government, and had compounded to a huge amount. |
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| In China, bats have been associated with happiness, joy and good fortune. |
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| While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune. |
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| Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust, Now to suspect is vain. |
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| The ingenious adventuress, who may have become Rohan's mistress, formed a plan to make her fortune out of the cardinal's passion for power and the queen's passion for gems. |
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| He was also the heir to his father's large fortune, which had been depleted by recusant fines, expensive tastes, and by Francis and Catesby's involvement in the Essex revolt. |
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| I hope the other report will be completed at a very early date, but to put a timescale on it would be to give hostage to fortune and I am not prepared to do that. |
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| He made a fortune by judiciously investing in underfollowed stocks. |
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| Alice was reportedly interested in fame and fortune, and when reserves of money were no longer available there were complaints about where all the money was going. |
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| It was my good fortune to encounter Thomas Paine's works in my boyhood. |
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| The fight between the two scientists lasted for over 30 years, ending in 1897 when Cope died after spending his entire fortune on the dinosaur hunt. |
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| A Welshman who made his fortune in the cotton trade, Owen believed in putting his workers in a good environment with access to education for themselves and their children. |
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| In May 1846 Angela Burdett Coutts, heir to the Coutts banking fortune, approached Dickens about setting up a home for the redemption of fallen women of the working class. |
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| Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power. |
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| With considerable help from Agnes and his own great diligence, hard work and discipline, David ultimately finds fame and fortune as an author, by writing fiction. |
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| For unexplained reasons, Marconi left his entire fortune to his second wife and their only child, and nothing to the children of his first marriage. |
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| Drew Bundini Brown was Muhammad Ali's assistant trainer and cornerman, and Joe Gold went on to make his fortune as the bodybuilding and fitness guru of Gold's Gym. |
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| Rugby School was founded in 1567 with money left in the will of Lawrence Sheriff, a locally born grocer, who moved to London and earned his fortune. |
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| Maccabi would have been out of contention were it not for Stoke's profligacy, but their fortune eventually ran out as the visitors opened the scoring. |
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| As the position of captain could be quite profitable, it became quite attractive to lesser nobles and men of ambition hoping for a quick and easy fortune. |
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| I go to fortune tellers nearly every day. But then all the girls do. You get your money's worth in excitement and hope, whether there's anything in it or not. |
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| Suppose I share my fortune equally between my children and a stranger. |
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| Since it seemed to lead in the right direction and its banks were virtually uninhabited, the shiplord declared it good fortune and chose to press on. |
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| The executors of his will were Ragnar Sohlman and Rudolf Lilljequist, who formed the Nobel Foundation to take care of Nobel's fortune and organize the prizes. |
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| In the beginning of the 16th century, Lisbon was a buzzing metropolis where people from diverse backgrounds came in search of work, glory or fortune. |
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| He is not a man of independent fortune, for he works like a carthorse. |
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| A guy I'd known as little more than a campus loser was running for Senate with a fair amount of aplomb, a soupcon of dignity and boatloads of cash from his personal fortune. |
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| William FitzHerbert, nephew of King Stephen, found his position undermined by the collapsing political fortune of Stephen in the north of England, and was deposed by the Pope. |
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| Rugby School was founded in 1567 as a provision in the will of Lawrence Sheriff, who had made his fortune supplying groceries to Queen Elizabeth I of England. |
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| Neyther the spightfull temerity and rashnes of variable fortune, nor the envious hart burning and in iurious hatred of mine enemies shold be able once to damnify me. |
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| Diaz installed Francisco Mena as governor of the state, who made a fortune through the concession of railway lines which were being built to modernize the country. |
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| The Almighty has smiled on us and blessed with good fortune. |
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| Long celebrated in art and literature, narcissi are associated with a number of themes in different cultures, ranging from death to good fortune, and as symbols of spring. |
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| He retired in 1940, but personal tragedies saw him lose his fortune and he ended up bankrupt, having to return to the ring at the age of 36 to make a living. |
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