Fortune example sentences

The first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice states: 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.The subcontinent held immense wealth and the possibilities for people to carve a fortune.All the time British officers in India drew big salaries and also made fortunes in private business.The fare was thirty paise one way — “which is almost nothing at all,” she heard one well-dressed man say, but to alli, who scarcely saw that much money from one month to the next, it seemed a fortune.In Bengal, Dwarkanath Tagore made his fortune in the China trade before he turned to industrial investment, setting up six joint-stock companies in the 1830s and 1840s.Oh, have you heard? Just think, what a misfortune I've had! My dog Guess, who you know, has gone lame.Jamsetji Tata had decided to spend a large part of his fortune to build a big iron and steel industry in India.