Sentence examples for modest fortune from inspiring English sources
Meanwhile, he amassed a modest fortune through investments in banking, electricity, gas, rubber, and sugar.
Despite, or perhaps because of, his crooked, violent and ruthless ways, he made a modest fortune and died a relatively rich man.
This period of American history held a special appeal for Clara's father, Mr. Finisterre, a bony-faced Portuguese immigrant to southwestern Florida who had wrung his modest fortune out of the sea-damp wallets of tourists.
The 0.05 per cent my bank is offering for the privilege of looking after my very modest fortune seems pretty typical of the system's generosity to anybody not in their employ.
My mother's family were not latifundistas (major landowners), functionaries in the Batista government, or corrupt casino owners, but hard-working immigrants who managed to amass a modest fortune in the small valley town of Güines.
Geekcorps was the idea of Ethan Zuckerman, 27, who made a modest fortune ("enough to buy myself time," he said) when the Internet company he helped start, Tripod, was bought by Lycos in 1998.
WORKERS waiting at airports: some flying off to seek modest fortunes, others returning to poor homelands whose main export is people.
Whereas the Puritans dreamed of accumulating modest fortunes "a little at a time, year by year", through "sobriety, thrift and steady toil", the '49ers dreamed of "instant wealth, won in a twinkling by audacity and good luck".
The number of Americans who left modest fortunes when they died declined in 2003 from 2001, while the number who left large fortunes increased, government data posted on the Internet showed yesterday.
Financiers who forty years ago made only modest fortunes today, even after the Great Recession they helped bring on, routinely earn seven and eight-figures.
During the height of black gospel's popularity in the 1950s and 1960s, many gospel singers such as Mahalia Jackson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Marion Williams and Clara Ward amassed modest fortunes and took great pride in displaying their material wealth in the form of expensive cars, fur coats, lavish homes and furnishings.
