Sentence examples for man of fortune from inspiring English sources

You are not a man of fortune.

To you, clerk, literary man, sedentary person, man of fortune, idler, the same advice.

"I'm a man of fortune," Mr. Rosa knowingly sings on the sweeping ballad "Trying to Reach You" (on which he sounds like a raspy Sting).

Here he found Whitman, who was a middle-aged man at the time, urging the reader: "To you, clerk, literary man, sedentary person, man of fortune, idler, the same advice.

Is it really a truth, universally acknowledged, that a man of good fortune must be in want of a wife?

It was brief and on point: "How would you feel if I saved you fifty grand?" Patrick Salvi immediately felt like a man of considerable fortune, though the money, while relevant, was not of primary significance.

A flurry of scheming is provoked by the arrival in the area of a Mr. Bingley (Sean Mahan), "a single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year," who rents an estate nearby.

But the hot-headed Lydia, her head full of romantic novels and determined to marry a man of no fortune, is already in love with the penniless Ensign Beverley, little knowing that Beverley and Jack are one and the same.

A man of inherited fortune and a stint at the Wharton School was an unlikely champion of the rural South and the Rust Belt — this was no Huey Long — but Trump was shrewd enough to perform his fellow-feeling in blunt terms.

Only later did the visitor learn that this man's pseudonym meant "man of sacred fortune" in Pashto, the language of 20 million to 30 million Pashtuns who straddle the Pakistan-Afghanistan border -- the ethnic group that made up an overwhelming majority of the Taliban, and of the volunteer legions who rushed from Pakistan to fight beside them.

The man of good fortune, his unhappy courtship and thwarted ambitions chronicled in a prologue, his grim end in an epilogue, is C. B. Whiting, prodigal son of the family whose shirt factory dominates the central Maine mill town that gives the novel its name.