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

But the ill-starred captain went down in a Biscay gale when also within sight of home, and with him went his whole life's savings, leaving his Margaret fatherless, homeless and fortuneless.

From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Ashmore, Annie

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

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)