Fortune in example sentence
CHAPTER XXXIXWHEREIN THE CAPTIVE RELATES HIS LIFE AND ADVENTURESMy family had its origin in a village in the mountains of Leon, and nature had been kinder and more generous to it than fortune; though in the general poverty of those communities my father passed for being even a rich man; and he would have been so in reality had he been as clever in preserving his property as he was in spending it.