Fortunate, most
fortunate occurrence!--fortunate for the millions of his manacled brethren, yet pant- ing for deliverance from their awful thraldom!--for- tunate for the cause of negro emancipation, and of universal liberty!--fortunate for the land of his birth, which he has already done so much to save and bless!
But, all the same, the reader will admit that it must be lonely for me, and not another sister left to take pity on me, all somewhere happily settled down in the
Fortunate Isles.
"Your horse has got the `thrush', and badly, too; his feet are very tender; it is
fortunate that he has not been down.
"Comrades of the thunder and companions of death, I cannot but regard it as singularly
fortunate that we who by conviction and sympathy are designated by nature as the champions of that fairest of her products, the white metal, should also, by a happy chance, be engaged mostly in the business of mining it.
Fortunate indeed is he who meets his end in an early death.
'I see,' she said musingly, 'you mean that I am
fortunate in my father.
By a
fortunate coincidence, Lady Janet's ball takes place in a fortnight.
This letter will reach England by a merchantman now on its homeward voyage from Archangel; more
fortunate than I, who may not see my native land, perhaps, for many years.
She felt herself a most
fortunate woman; and she had lived long enough to know how
fortunate she might well be thought, where the only regret was for a partial separation from friends whose friendship for her had never cooled, and who could ill bear to part with her.
He took me to a cave where his companions were assembled, and when I had eaten of the food they set before me, they bade me think myself
fortunate to have come upon them when I did, since they were going back to their master on the morrow, and without their aid I could certainly never have found my way to the inhabited part of the island.
The ladies were somewhat more
fortunate, for they had the advantage of ascertaining from an upper window that he wore a blue coat, and rode a black horse.
They were so
fortunate as to kill a couple of fine bulls, and cutting up the carcasses, determined to husband this stock of provisions with the most miserly care, lest they should again be obliged to venture into the open and dangerous hunting grounds.