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Examples
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"Fortun '," repeated the father, "fortun '-- it's fetched me one in the ribs -- low, Barnabas, low!
The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915
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Heller has no public position but was among the top recipients a fortun
HUFFPOST HILL - Honest-To-God Democrat Might Lead Pentagon Eliot Nelson 2011
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‘Why, only see how easy they might have been stronger, sir,’ said Mark, ‘if it wasn’t for the envy of that uncommon fortun of mine, which is always after me, and tripping me up.
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The name of which booke is Inuentio Fortunata (aliter fortun�) qui liber incipit a gradu 54. vsque ad polum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Edgarus fatua cupidine illusus Angliam redijt, vbi (vt superius dixi) diuerso fortun� ludicro rotatus, nunc remotus et tacitus, canos suos in agro consumit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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"Didn't I say I could help you to the major's lands and houses? and a'n't they a fortun 'for an emperor?"
Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird
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I axed har ef she'd leff the 'oman who'd made har husban's fortun ', who war the muther uv his chil'ren, who fur twenty yar hed nussed him in sickness an' cheered him in healtf, ef shede let _thet 'oman_ bee auckyund off ter th' hi'est bider.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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I'm believed to be devoted to my pigeons, out o 'which I takes care it should be thought I makes a little fortun -- and that makes a man respected.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various
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Finally, came he which was appointed to my good fortun according to the promise of the goddesse.
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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I work on my own hook, in the matter of the fortun '-- 'cause how, Dick's not to be trusted where the play's all in his own hands; but as for cheating him out of the gal, there's no manner of good can come of it, and it's clear agin my own interest.
Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird
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