fortuneless
Example Sentences
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Is life richer with a fortuneless love match, or with all the wealth in the world and a stable union devoid of romantic passion?
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026
Yes, Lesbia loved this fortuneless knight; but she loved herself and her prospects of promotion still better.
From Phantom Fortune, a Novel by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
What matter that he was fortuneless, a nobody, with but the poorest chances of success in the world?
From Phantom Fortune, a Novel by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
She knew that Lesbia had loved her fortuneless suitor; and she did not know that the wound was cured, even by a season in the little-great world of Cannes.
From Phantom Fortune, a Novel by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
Who am I? a poor unknown sailor, fortuneless, friendless, nameless.
From The Sea-Witch Or, the African Quadroon : a Story of the Slave Coast by Ballou, Maturin Murray