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There might have been practical reasons for men less for-tunate or upright to blow off some steam from time to time, but that was of little concern to such church leaders as Bourne and Mather.
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It had been a near thing, and he was more for-tunate than he could imagine.
Impossible Places Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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How for - tunate that you had returned from your mission, Kelevandros.
Dragons of a Fallen Sun Weis, Margaret 2000
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The Hall became filled with the shrieking, horrified screams of the unfor - tunate Orgians.
The Bane of the Black Sword Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977
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The Hall became filled with the shrieking, horrified screams of the unfor - tunate Orgians.
The Bane of The Black Sword Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977
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There was a time when unions could justify a degree of economic dislocation and general inconvenience because this power was being wielded on behalf of less for tunate members in the economy.
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Isaac was for - tunate enough to have received a good education, and later became master of the Latin school at Dordrecht.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ROBERT H. KARGON 1968
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The use of the word “primitive” to characterize all such people was scientifically unfor - tunate, for there was no evidence that any civilized group had ever literally evolved from any condition identical with that of the so-called primitives.
PRIMITIVISM GEORGE BOAS 1968
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[Sidenote: Mariage.] are fulle fortunate in Mariage, if Mariage were of necessitée the cause, then all should be onely fortunate, or onely vnfor - tunate: then in mariage is not the cause, if in marige the ma - ners doe disagrée, and loue is extinguished, blame thyn own
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In moste for - tunate state is the kyngdome and Common wealthe, where the Nobles and Peres, not onelie daiely doe stu - die to vertue, for that is the wisedome, that all the graue and wise Philophers searched to attaine to.
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