fortuneless

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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

"No wonder," he thought, "if, courted by the son of a proud and powerful baron, she can no longer spare a word or look to the poor fortuneless page."

From The Abbot by Scott, Walter, Sir

There was a small life-insurance settled upon Mrs. Lawrence, and the children would be fortuneless.

From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

What could I, helpless, houseless, fortuneless, be but a weight upon that buoyancy and ambition of eminence which marks superior natures for the superior honours of life.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various

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)