Sentence examples for search of fortune from inspiring English sources

Like people in our time, though, they voyage across the world in search of fortune, passion or adventure.

A list of every Muslim in the United States of America, the country to which European settlers came in search of fortune and religious freedom.

He aims to address the exodus of talented British Asians who move 4,500 miles to India in search of fortune after finding opportunities here limited to bit-parts in soap operas.

Those maqāmat are written in a combination of prose, rhymed prose (sajʿ), and poetry and recount typically the encounters of the narrator ʿIsā ibn Hishām with Abū al-Fatḥ al-Iskandarī, a witty orator and talented poet who roams in search of fortune unencumbered by Islamic conventions of honour.

"These people are leaving their friends and families and they're going in search of fortune and fame.

The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848 brought thousands of people to California in search of fortune until the late 1850s.

A while ago, she made the trek from Indiana in search of her fortune.

Her favorite novel about Chicago is "Sister Carrie," by Theodore Dreiser, in which a small-town girl moves to the big city in search of her fortune.

Indeed, the game is all made up: players can turn themselves into a druid, or a warrior, or anything and then go in search of their fortune.

LIKE a modern version of the wily prospectors who once roamed the West in search of their fortune, Scott Griesbach single-mindedly scoured the desert, map in hand, for a mother lode of his own.

Another, very different, follower of Rousseauist ideals, the verbose and prolific Nicolas-Edme Restif de la Bretonne, became the self-proclaimed chronicler and analyst of Parisian society, a representative young man of the generation that had gone from country to city in search of fresh fortune.