He was "a faithful servant, a friend and counselor, an ever-present companion to give me confidence in the darkness of a dangerous night, and good cheer, when fortune favored a visit to battalion headquarters" (215).
If fortune favored Button, it deserted Vettel, who for the second straight race was let down by a mechanical failure while comfortably leading.
Brothers also convincingly dismisses the idea that Armstrong was a purely instinctive, improvisational artist, a lucky savant whom fortune favored with a cornet.
The game proved one of the closest ever witnessed in America, and the excitement was intense, the spectators jumping to their feet in the grand stand and cheering and waving their hats as fortune favored Englishmen or Americans.
Consider this quintessential Brookner sentence, uttered as her heroine confides that she does not love the much older husband she has recently married: "What I felt for him was the gratitude that unmarried women in Jane Austen feel for a prospect that might, if fortune favored them, bring about the sort of resolution considered to be appropriate".
In this case, fortune favored the bold.
"We used to say fortune favored the bold," said Denny Zane, executive director of Move LA, a non-profit organization that advocates for public transit investment.
Later that night, he IM'd to tell me two phrases he remembered, giving me the Latin and then the English: "fortune favors the bold" and "a nation/empire without bound".
"Fortune favors the brave," he said.
