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  • -- The best: Fanny as Fortune; unluckily we forgot to blind her, and she had only my leather bag for her purse, but nevertheless, she made a beautiful graceful _Fortune_, and scattered her riches with an air that charmed the world. 2nd scene: Mr. Smith and

    The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 Maria Edgeworth 1808

  • However, the element of the fortuitous is concentrated more on the term Fortune than on either Fate or Chance, particularly because of the personification of Fortune and its elevation to the status of a divinity.

    FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE VINCENZO CIOFFARI 1968

  • BTW: China Fortune is a favorite restaurant memory.

    Tigers & Strawberries » Kung Pao Creation Myth 2005

  • The next Vegas story is something like this for there; it's how Hal assembles the deck he has in "Fortune", by visiting the kami of Las Vegas.

    Thor's Day shemhazai 2009

  • (Some short fiction will be Vegas-based, too - I still have to tell the story of Hal got the cards he's using in "Fortune".)

    Odin's Day miashell 2009

  • I've teamed up with amazing artist ultralilac to produce a set of the cards the Fortune-Teller in "Fortune" uses to tell the story.

    Story + Cards s00j 2009

  • Several years ago the Abbot of Notre Dame des Dommes monastery was quoted in "Fortune" magazine.

    Thirty Million Musketeers 1995

  • Ford, we can agree, deserves the title Fortune magazine bestowed on him (“Businessman of the Century”), and he deserves the respectful, if unblinkered, treatment that he receives in The People’s Tycoon.

    A Brilliant Entrepreneur, Ford Was a Lousy Populist 2005

  • [The term Fortune, so often employed by Montaigne, and in passages where he might have used Providence, was censured by the doctors who examined his Essays when he was at Rome in 1581.

    The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 06 Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • [The term Fortune, so often employed by Montaigne, and in passages where he might have used Providence, was censured by the doctors who examined his Essays when he was at Rome in 1581.

    The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562

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