Sentence examples for fortune seekers from inspiring English sources

In the 16th century, fortune seekers came for the pearls.

"But these fortune seekers are a bit much," she said.

Its call has enthralled generations of residents and historians, and lured numerous fortune seekers.

News of the discovery, however, soon spread, and they were besieged by thousands of fortune seekers.

In 1849 fortune seekers rushed into California in search of gold.

Gold rush, rapid influx of fortune seekers to the site of newly discovered gold deposits.

The great bazaars of Baghdad and Istanbul were full of fortune-seekers from hither and yon.

For the wanderers, refugees and fortune-seekers in some of these - and many other - books, the tremors that drive movement rise from deep within the earth.

Between January 1848 and December 1849, Gold Rush fortune-seekers swelled the frontier town's population from 1,000 to 25,000.

But like generations of fortune-seekers drawn to the tropics, many people here grew up with bolder dreams of again mastering nature and geography with a canal.

The existence of gold mining in Villa Rica is well documented, but the question of whether the town attracted a rush of fortune-seekers has only been mentioned in a few Georgia history books and newspaper articles.