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

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

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

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